Apple platform discovery — qualification

Record status

Record ID

job:tim:apple-platform-discovery

Parent lifecycle

candidate

Page lane

qualification

Lane lifecycle

proposed

Owner

Tim

Owner role

Apple platform specialist

Owner status

PACKAGING

Qualification result

NOT RUN · held for evidence and human review

Working browser surface: Agent jobs — builder overview — Inspect the package and stage a local project. This route is local-only; provider, credential, database, customer, publication, deployment, and production effects remain held.

Qualification status

Result

NOT RUN

Disposition

HELD

Reviewer

Not recorded

Receipt

Not recorded

This page defines proposed acceptance criteria for the qualification lane. It does not execute tests, establish compliance, qualify the subject, or authorize an effect.

Outcome definitions

Verified

All stated evidence and acceptance requirements passed for the exact reviewed revision; this still does not authorize deployment or an external effect.

Failed

One or more deterministic acceptance requirements failed with an inspectable reason.

Needs review

Evidence or interpretation is incomplete, conflicting, or awaits an identified human reviewer.

Held

Authority, required evidence, safe execution conditions, or a principal gate is absent.

The current record remains NOT RUN / HELD. These definitions describe candidate outcomes only.

Proposed deterministic acceptance tests

Route-resolution and distinct-content checks apply only to the admitted canonical routes in this record. Held source-proposed extensions are non-resolving proposals and are excluded.

• Deterministic qualification: every in-scope capability has a platform, source locator, source date or version, observation type, required entitlement assessment, authority decision, limitation, failure state, and final review status.
• Negative availability: entering an API or framework name without source evidence produces Held or Needs review, never Qualified or publicly allowed.
• Negative production: references to Spotlight indexing, App Intents execution, Apple intelligence, credentials, provider connections, customer records, deployment, store submission, or publication are labelled proposal or held unless directly supported by the supplied record; no such support is assumed here.
• Negative scope: any request touching files outside authorized Apple files, new entitlements, production credentials, store submission, or external publication is rejected or Held and linked to an approval record.
• Accessibility: every proposed interface path identifies keyboard/focus order, VoiceOver labels, Dynamic Type or text scaling behavior, contrast, reduced-motion behavior, and a non-pointer interaction path; missing any item fails qualification.
• Accessibility failure: inaccessible labels, clipped scaled text, focus loss, unlabeled status changes, or gesture-only controls produce a blocking failure state.
• Privacy: each capability identifies data collected, data displayed, indexing/search exposure, retention, user control, and whether sensitive content could appear in system surfaces; unknown privacy behavior is Held.
• Privacy failure: proposed indexing of private or customer content without an explicit visibility boundary, consent/control, and owner decision fails qualification.
• Chronology: conflicting platform/version statements are preserved as separate revisions and the newer or authoritative source is not selected without a documented rationale.
• Source integrity: every substantive claim links to the supplied source record or a local source-labelled record; missing locator, provenance, or revision metadata fails qualification.
• Authority: Tim may document and propose within the Apple specialist scope, but cannot authorize entitlements, credentials, submission, publication, deployment, or scope expansion; attempted authority overreach creates a blocking receipt.
• Failure-state coverage: each capability defines behavior for unavailable API, missing entitlement, unsupported OS version, denied permission, offline state, indexing failure, stale result, malformed intent, and user cancellation where applicable.
• Product coherence: iPhone, iPad, and Mac differences are recorded explicitly; unsupported parity claims fail rather than being silently generalized.
• Race prevention: the record contains owner, revision, and source state; a conflicting writer or duplicate package is marked for coordination rather than overwritten.
• Submission boundary: no acceptance result may imply a connected web feature, production Apple integration, customer indexing, deployment, or store submission; those statuses remain held.

Negative and held-state tests

• A native surface name may be mistaken for a connected or deployed feature.
• Apple platform names or version labels may become stale or conflict across sources.
• Entitlement and permission requirements may be omitted from otherwise plausible capability descriptions.
• Spotlight or App Intents proposals may expose private or customer-sensitive information without a clear visibility boundary.
• Apple intelligence claims may overstate availability, API access, or supported behavior.
• Platform differences may be hidden by claiming iPhone, iPad, and Mac parity.
• Accessibility review may be treated as a visual pass instead of an interaction and assistive-technology requirement.
• Local prototype routes may be mistaken for production authority or external indexing.
• Unauthorized files, credentials, submission, or publication may enter the work package through scope drift.
• A missed deadline may be incorrectly treated as permission to proceed.

Qualification claim boundary

Potentially allowed only after the stated evidence

• This is a proposal-only qualification package for Apple platform discovery.
• Tim is identified in the supplied source record as an Apple platform specialist focused on the listed capability areas.
• The package can document and compare proposed platform capabilities using source-labelled records and explicit review states.
• Guth native surfaces named in the supplied contract can be used as local prototype or indexed workflow surfaces according to their stated route status.
• The allowed instrument directory contains verified instruments, but no instrument is required for this job.

Still held

• Availability of any specific Apple API, entitlement, framework behavior, or operating-system version.
• Connected App Intents execution, Core Spotlight indexing, Apple intelligence integration, or system-level customer search.
• Deployment, production credentials, provider connection, database authority, customer indexing, publication, or store submission.
• Qualification or approval of any entitlement, implementation, Apple file scope, or submission package.
• Cross-device feature parity across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
• Any claim that a named Guth route proves a connected web feature or production state.

Sources and evidence

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

• agents/index.html#tim
• source_record:job:tim:apple-platform-discovery
• Observed native contract: project_and_field_guide_collections
• Observed native contract: deadlines
• Observed native contract: records
• Observed native contract: pointguard
• App route: /app/notebook/field-guides/
• App route: /app/notebook/notes/
• App route: /app/notebook/files/
• App route: /app/notebook/approvals/
• App route: /app/notebook/agent-logs/