Source: https://guthlabs.ai/docs/field-guides/liquid-glass/tools/

field guide / candidate

# Liquid Glass — tools

The distinct tools record for Liquid Glass. This page is proposal-only.

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

## Record status

**Record ID**: field-guide:liquid-glass

**Parent lifecycle**: candidate

**Page lane**: tools

**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.

## Authoritative tools lane tools and interfaces

### Canonical tools-page assignments

- **PointGuard** (interface · required) — Use as the persistent contextual room for the current Liquid Glass investigation, linked Notebook records, review status, and bounded handoffs. Do not treat it as the canonical owner of specialist records or as proof of external connectivity.

- **Notebook Field Guides** (interface · required) — Use to compose and follow this source-backed procedure, link related jobs and records, and expose prerequisites and acceptance tests.

- **Notebook Notes** (interface · required) — Use for source-labelled observations, platform discovery notes, reproduction steps, and revision history.

- **Notebook Files** (interface · required) — Use for local file references beside implementation records. Do not imply hidden upload, protected storage, or remote asset authority.

- **Notebook To-dos** (interface · required) — Use to assign implementation and review work with due dates, completion state, tags, and human-review signals.

- **Notebook Approvals** (interface · required) — Use to keep native capability qualification and accessibility decisions in Needs review, Approved, or Held states with receipts.

- **Notebook Agent Logs** (interface · required) — Use to preserve Tim's work, authority boundaries, evidence links, revisions, and current held or prototype state.

- **Notebook Search** (interface · required) — Use to find linked local records while respecting private and held-surface visibility.

Only the page's admitted lane is rendered as an assignment. Other lane inventories remain source records but are not merged here. Tool kind and required/optional status are preserved.

## Authoritative lane instrument assignments

### Canonical tools-page assignments

[wcag-contrast-ratio-checkerrequired · Check foreground/background contrast for Liquid Glass controls, text, overlays, and fallback surfaces during accessibility review. Record exact colors, context, and result. Must not be used as a complete WCAG audit, a platform conformance certification, or proof that translucency remains readable in every state.](<https://guthlabs.ai/docs/instruments/wcag-contrast-ratio-checker/>)

An instrument listed only for another lane does not become a tools-page assignment.

## Use boundary

- A named Swift, SwiftUI, App Intents, Spotlight, or Apple-platform surface does not prove a connected web feature.

- Prototype or indexed app routes do not prove production behavior or deployment.

- Translucency, blur, color blending, and background changes can reduce readability; contrast checking alone is insufficient.

- Platform availability, SDK behavior, and cross-device parity may differ and must be recorded as observations rather than inferred facts.

- Accessibility failures may occur in Dynamic Type, VoiceOver order, keyboard navigation, reduced-transparency settings, focus states, or error states.

- Local file references must not be presented as uploaded, remotely stored, or protected assets.

- App Intents and Spotlight work must not be presented as customer indexing or external search integration.

- Native capability qualification must remain human-reviewed and must not be delegated as an unbounded automated decision.

- Incomplete evidence, unavailable platform behavior, or unresolved privacy concerns must result in Held rather than Approved.

## Sources and evidence

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

- `source_record:field-guide:liquid-glass`

- `agents/index.html#tim`

- `field-guide:liquid-glass`

- `Observed native contract: records preserve canonical IDs, provenance, revisions, lifecycle, tags, links, attachments, and record revisions`

- `Observed native contract: PointGuard is a persistent cross-app context surface and specialist apps remain execution and canonical-record owners`

- `Observed native contract: current GuthHub app routes are local prototypes or indexes and provider, credential, database, customer, publication, and production effects are held`