[BUG] Title: Voice mode (push-to-talk) silently fails on macOS — missing audio-input entitlement in native binary

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What's Wrong?

Title: Voice mode (push-to-talk) silently fails on macOS — missing audio-input entitlement in native binary

Version: 2.1.72 (native binary, macOS)
Plan: Claude Max
OS: macOS Sequoia 15.x

Summary
Voice mode activates (dot indicator appears when push-to-talk key is held) but never captures audio and never triggers
a macOS microphone permission dialog. Terminal.app does not appear in System Settings → Privacy & Security →
Microphone.

Root Cause Identified
The native binary at ~/.local/share/claude/versions/2.1.72 is missing the com.apple.security.device.audio-input
entitlement. Without this entitlement, macOS silently denies microphone access — no TCC permission dialog is shown and
no entry is created in the TCC database.

Verified via:
codesign -d --entitlements - ~/.local/share/claude/versions/2.1.72
Output contains only: cs.allow-jit, cs.allow-unsigned-executable-memory, cs.disable-library-validation — no
audio entitlement.

Expected Behaviour
On first use of push-to-talk, macOS should prompt for microphone permission for Terminal.app, and voice-to-text should
transcribe speech into the prompt.

Actual Behaviour
Push-to-talk dot indicator appears but no audio is captured and no permission dialog is shown. tccutil reset Microphone com.apple.Terminal does not help as the entitlement is absent at the binary level.

Fix Required
Add com.apple.security.device.audio-input to the code signing entitlements of the Claude Code native binary for
macOS.

What Should Happen?

Expected Behaviour
On first use of push-to-talk, macOS should prompt for microphone permission for Terminal.app, and voice-to-text should
transcribe speech into the prompt.

Error Messages/Logs

**Root Cause Identified**
  The native binary at `~/.local/share/claude/versions/2.1.72` is missing the `com.apple.security.device.audio-input`
  entitlement. Without this entitlement, macOS silently denies microphone access — no TCC permission dialog is shown and
   no entry is created in the TCC database.

  Verified via:
  codesign -d --entitlements - ~/.local/share/claude/versions/2.1.72
  Output contains only: `cs.allow-jit`, `cs.allow-unsigned-executable-memory`, `cs.disable-library-validation` — no
  audio entitlement.

Steps to Reproduce

Expected Behaviour
On first use of push-to-talk, macOS should prompt for microphone permission for Terminal.app, and voice-to-text should
transcribe speech into the prompt.

Claude Model

Not sure / Multiple models

Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

Last Working Version

No response

Claude Code Version

2.1.72 (Claude Code)

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

Additional Information

No response

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Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

1. Voice mode: holding Space sends literal spaces instead of recording audio on macOS terminal (zsh) #31341
2. Voice mode — "No speech detected" despite working microphone #30293
3. [BUG] Voice stream error: Connection closed: code 1006 (macOS) #31101

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