Source: https://guthlabs.ai/docs/field-guides/apple-capability-index/forms/

field guide / candidate

# Apple capability index — forms

The distinct forms record for Apple capability index. This page is proposal-only.

Status: **proposed**Lifecycle: **candidate**

## Record status

**Record ID**: field-guide:apple-capability-index

**Parent lifecycle**: candidate

**Page lane**: plan

**Lane lifecycle**: proposed

**Owner**: Tim

**Owner role**: Not separately recorded

**Owner status**: Not separately recorded

**Qualification result**: NOT RUN · held for evidence and human review

**Working browser surface:** [Field guides — documentation](<https://guthlabs.ai/docs/field-guides/>) — Inspect the guide and persist local checkpoints. This route is local-only; provider, credential, database, customer, publication, deployment, and production effects remain held.

## Proposed form sections

Each section is a candidate schema for inspectable records. Required-field presence does not establish factual truth.

### Scope and ownership

Define the capability question, owner, and bounded review scope.

- guide_id

- capability_question

- owner_agent

- related_job

- platform_scope

- review_date

- status

### Source binding

Preserve the supplied source relationship and provenance before analysis.

- source_record_id

- source_locator

- source_sha256

- origin

- provenance_note

- revision_id

- visibility

### Capability hypothesis

Describe a possible Apple-platform capability without presenting it as an existing connected feature.

- capability_name

- user_problem

- candidate_native_surface

- required_app_context

- specialist_app_owner

- canonical_record_owner

- hypothesis_statement

- known_unknowns

### Evidence and qualification

Capture observable evidence, limitations, and qualification outcomes.

- evidence_type

- evidence_locator

- observed_behavior

- evidence_date

- qualification_state

- constraint

- confidence_note

- reviewer

### Implementation workback

Turn unresolved questions into bounded records with explicit deadlines.

- task

- owner

- priority

- due_at

- dependency

- recurrence_candidate

- completion_state

- tags

### Decision and receipt

Record whether the opportunity is proposed, held, or ready for a later implementation review.

- decision

- decision_reason

- approval_state

- receipt_link

- follow_up_date

- public_claims_allowed

- public_claims_held

### Accessible state contract

- Every field requires a visible and programmatic label.

- Required and optional fields must be stated in text.

- Invalid entries require an actionable message linked to the field.

- Blocked and Held states remain visible without relying on color alone.

## Supporting documentation fields

These fields come from the tools lane and remain separate from the primary operating form.

### Capability identity

Define the capability being indexed without asserting availability or connection.

- capability name

- Apple platform or framework

- OS/device context

- candidate category

- owner agent

- source locator

- source SHA-256

- canonical record ID

### Evidence and boundary

Separate observed source material from assumptions and held implementation effects.

- source excerpt

- native surface named in source

- observed contract or route

- evidence type

- known limitations

- provider or credential dependency

- database or customer-data dependency

- publication or deployment effect

- qualification state

### Implementation mapping

Map the capability to bounded local work and an accountable product owner.

- related job

- candidate app surface

- record owner

- local prototype action

- canonical-record owner

- inputs

- outputs

- failure state

- accessibility requirements

- privacy or permission review

### Review workback

Create explicit deadlines and review gates before any capability claim is promoted.

- discovery due date

- technical validation due date

- accessibility review due date

- approval due date

- review priority

- recurrence candidate

- completion state

- blocking dependency

- escalation owner

### Qualification receipt

Preserve a deterministic review result and its limits.

- reviewer

- review timestamp

- evidence records

- accepted observations

- held claims

- rejected assumptions

- next action

- approval state

- revision note

## Required or proposed record references

No record existence is asserted by this documentation page.

- Source record field-guide:apple-capability-index

- Capability opportunity records

- Evidence and source-locator records

- Platform constraint records

- Review or approval record

- Deadline/to-do records for unresolved verification

- Source-labelled capability note with source locator and SHA-256

- Field-guide record with lifecycle and owner

- Project record linking capability candidates to related jobs

- Approval record for any qualification claim

- Agent log containing evidence, authority boundary, and receipt

- Todo records for discovery, validation, and review deadlines

## Sources and evidence

These pointers bind the page to evidence. They do not grant authority or collapse verification into deployment.

- `source_record:field-guide:apple-capability-index`

- `field-guide:apple-capability-index`

- `agents/index.html#tim`

- `Observed native contract: project_and_field_guide_collections`

- `Observed native contract: deadlines`

- `Observed native contract: records`

- `Observed native contract: pointguard`

- `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/field-guides/`

- `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/approvals/`

- `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/to-dos/`

- `APP_ROUTES:/app/pointguard/`

- `Observed native contract: web_boundary`

- `Observed app route: /app/notebook/field-guides/`

- `Observed app route: /app/notebook/approvals/`

- `Observed app route: /app/notebook/agent-logs/`

- `Allowed instruments: finite-state-machine-simulator`

- `Allowed instruments: wcag-contrast-ratio-checker`

- `Allowed instruments: checksum-verifier`