Apple platform discovery — tools

The distinct tools record for Apple platform discovery. This page is proposal-only.

Status: proposedLifecycle: candidate

Record status

Record ID: job:tim:apple-platform-discovery
Parent lifecycle: candidate
Page lane: package
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.

Authoritative package lane tools and interfaces

Canonical tools-page assignments

Xcode (interface · optional) — Named by the source record as an existing Apple specialist tool; any use remains bounded by authorized Apple files and does not prove deployment.
SwiftUI (interface · optional) — Named native interface technology for documenting candidate Apple implementation patterns without claiming an implemented product feature.
App Intents (interface · optional) — Named native capability relevant to intent-oriented product mapping; availability and integration must remain evidence-bound.
Core Spotlight (interface · optional) — Named native capability relevant to indexing discussions; no customer indexing or connected Guth search effect may be claimed.
Apple frameworks (guide · optional) — Source-named framework category for bounded capability assessment; individual APIs must not be inferred as available.
Apple capability index (guide · optional) — Existing source-named guide for organizing capability evidence and platform constraints.
iOS 27 (guide · optional) — Existing source-named platform guide for iPhone capability notes; version support must be evidenced rather than assumed.
iPadOS 27 (guide · optional) — Existing source-named platform guide for iPad capability notes; version support must be evidenced rather than assumed.
macOS 27 (guide · optional) — Existing source-named platform guide for Mac capability notes; version support must be evidenced rather than assumed.
Liquid Glass (guide · optional) — Existing source-named guide for interface and product-family observations; it does not establish implementation or approval.
PointGuard (interface · optional) — Persistent cross-app context surface for opening the current room and related Notebook records; specialist apps remain execution and canonical-record owners.
Notebook (interface · required) — Owning record workspace for notes, files, to-dos, projects, field guides, agent logs, search, and approvals.

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

No verified instrument is assigned to this tools lane.

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

Use boundary

Treating a named Apple framework or platform guide as proof that an API exists, is available to Guth, or is suitable for production.
Claiming Core Spotlight indexing, App Intents integration, Apple Intelligence behavior, customer search, provider connection, or database authority without verified evidence and approved implementation.
Using Xcode or SwiftUI work outside authorized Apple files or presenting local prototype work as deployed product state.
Submitting to the App Store, requesting or using production credentials, or adding entitlements without approval.
Publishing documentation that repeats unsupported claims or creates doorway pages without distinct useful content.
Racing another writer or overwriting source-labelled records instead of preserving revisions and provenance.
Failing to disclose version, platform, permission, entitlement, accessibility, or hardware constraints.
Allowing an Agent to send messages, write external schedules, upload protected files, or make irreversible changes without human review.
Confusing PointGuard context with canonical ownership.
Presenting educational or exploratory capability notes as qualification, compliance, security, or production certification.

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: Notebook collections, deadlines, record provenance, PointGuard boundary
Observed app routes: /app/pointguard/, /app/notebook/notes/, /app/notebook/files/, /app/notebook/to-dos/, /app/notebook/approvals/, /app/notebook/projects/, /app/notebook/field-guides/, /app/notebook/agent-logs/, /app/notebook/search/
Observed app route state: local prototypes or indexes; provider, credential, database, customer, publication, and production effects held
Allowed verified-instrument directory reviewed; no instrument selected because the supplied job is platform discovery rather than a calculation task