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Replace the GitHub-API version-scrape + GitHub releases download URL with a single fetch of the _latest pointer served by GCS via packages.smallstep.com, matching how the deb/rpm/dnf installs already work. EFF-173 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
github.com/.../releases/download/...download with a single fetch ofhttps://packages.smallstep.com/stable/linux/step-agent_${ARCH}_latest.pkg.tar.zst.packages.smallstep.com.The
_latestpointer is now populated by the EFF-170 promote-latest workflow (smallstep/agent#1003), and bothamd64andarm64objects are live in GCS.Closes EFF-173.
Test plan
sudo bash smallstep-agent-install.sh --team <slug>— installs and registerssudo bash smallstep-agent-install.sh --team <slug>— installs and registerscurl -fI https://packages.smallstep.com/stable/linux/step-agent_amd64_latest.pkg.tar.zstreturns 200 (after redirect)curl -fI https://packages.smallstep.com/stable/linux/step-agent_arm64_latest.pkg.tar.zstreturns 200 (after redirect)🤖 Generated with Claude Code