Source: https://guthlabs.ai/docs/jobs/tim-cross-device-product-families/field-guides/

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# Cross-device product families — field guides

The distinct field guides record for Cross-device product families. This page is proposal-only.

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

## Record status

**Record ID**: job:tim:cross-device-product-families

**Parent lifecycle**: candidate

**Page lane**: docs_urls

**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](<https://guthlabs.ai/guth.html#builder>) — Inspect the package and stage a local project. This route is local-only; provider, credential, database, customer, publication, deployment, and production effects remain held.

## Related field-guide records

- /app/notebook/field-guides/

Source-proposed guide paths are references, not proof that those paths resolve.

## Operating sequence

- Create or update the canonical job record and declare the authorized Apple-file scope.

- Create a cross-device product-family project and link the job, source notes, capability records, and review to-dos.

- Capture source-labelled evidence for each proposed Apple capability, including locator, SHA-256, provenance, revision, and lifecycle.

- Separate observed native contract from proposed web or production behavior; mark unverified API availability and all external effects as held.

- Map the shared user goal across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, documenting platform-specific interaction, accessibility, continuity, and failure behavior.

- Identify entitlement, credential, Store submission, provider, database, customer-indexing, and publication gates.

- Draft a reusable field guide with prerequisites, bounded steps, expected receipts, and escalation conditions.

- Run deterministic acceptance tests against the records, links, authority boundaries, and held states.

- Submit the package to Notebook Approvals for human review; preserve the decision and receipt.

- Record the final proposal revision in Agent Logs and hand off only the approved local guidance.

## Handoff boundary

- A capability name may be mistaken for a connected or currently available API.

- Apple platform versions, entitlements, and framework behavior may change; source revision and date context must remain visible.

- Cross-device parity can erase platform-specific interaction and accessibility needs.

- Spotlight indexing, App Intents, Apple Intelligence, provider access, credentials, databases, customer records, and Store submission are production-sensitive and held.

- Unauthorized Apple files or undocumented source material may exceed the job boundary.

- A proposed handoff may be mistaken for implementation, deployment, or qualification.

- Local prototype routes do not prove connected web behavior.

- Sensitive source files or credentials must not be uploaded or stored through this package without an explicitly authorized surface.

## 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:cross-device-product-families`

- `job:tim:cross-device-product-families`

- `Observed native contract: project_and_field_guide_collections`

- `Observed native contract: deadlines`

- `Observed native contract: records`

- `Observed native contract: pointguard`

- `Observed app routes: /app/notebook/projects/`

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

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

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

- `Observed app routes: /app/pointguard/`