What
New keychain probe during claude doctor that tests whether the macOS Keychain is writable and provides actionable fix suggestions.
Details
- Probes keychain write access during initialisation when
probeKeychain: trueis passed - New error messages:
- "macOS Keychain is not writable"
- "Failed to save API key to macOS Keychain"
- Fix suggestion: "Run: security unlock-keychain ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db"
- Keychain operations now have explicit 5-second timeout and stderr-based error detection
- Probe service name:
"Claude Code-doctor-probe"
Evidence
Keychain probe (search for "macOS Keychain is not writable", "Claude Code-doctor-probe", "probeKeychain")
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Fixed Console login on macOS silently failing with "Not logged in" when the login keychain is locked or its password is out of sync — the…