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This page is for one Mac: a pilot machine, or a machine you want to watch before the fleet. On a Mac, Quint is two profiles and one installer. Your MDM pushes the profiles first, then the installer. For a whole fleet, see Roll out with MDM.

Before you start

  • An Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 14 or later, with an administrator account.
  • The Admin or Owner role in the dashboard, to use Add machines.
  • Read What Quint records. The installer shows the same notice before it installs anything.

Install through your MDM

1

Make a package

Open Add machines. Choose Mac, then A device management tool (MDM), then your MDM, and name the package, for example “Pilot Mac”. Click Make my files and download the files: the approvals profile, the enrollment profile and the Mac installer.
2

Assign both profiles to the Mac

In your MDM, upload quint-approvals.mobileconfig and the quint-enrollment-….mobileconfig file, and scope both to this one Mac. Confirm they landed: System Settings › General › Device Management (on macOS 14, Privacy & Security › Profiles) lists “Quint approvals” and a “Quint enrollment” profile.
3

Assign the installer

Only then scope the installer package to the same Mac (on Intune, the macOS app (PKG) type; see Microsoft Intune). The installer places QuintAgent.app, which carries the two system extensions, and the background service. With the profiles in place, both extensions activate without a prompt and the Mac joins your organisation.
4

Confirm it reports

The wizard’s First computer step shows the Mac’s checks as it reports in. In Data Sources, the Mac appears under Telemetry by host with its Capture layers and Last seen. Open the row: Agents on this host lists each coding agent found on the Mac and whether it is covered.
On Quint 1.1.29, a Mac that gets the installer before its enrollment profile does not start Quint. Install the package on that Mac again once the profile is there.

If the Mac is not in an MDM

Open Add machines, choose Mac, then Just one computer. Name it, click Get a one-time install code, and paste the command it shows into Terminal on the Mac; paste the code when the command asks for your Quint token. The code adds one computer and stops working after 24 hours. See One computer. Without the approvals profile, macOS asks the person at the Mac to allow the extensions. Open System Settings › General › Login Items & Extensions (on macOS 14, Privacy & Security) and allow both Quint extensions. Then open System Settings › Privacy & Security › Full Disk Access and turn it on for the Quint endpoint extension; without it, macOS does not let the extension record file activity.

If this fails

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