Native capability qualification — qualification

Record status

Record ID

job:tim:native-capability-qualification

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.

• A qualification record cannot be marked qualified unless scope, claim, platform matrix, evidence locator, evidence date, reviewer, and approval record are present.
• A named framework, App Intent, Core Spotlight surface, Apple Intelligence reference, or other native surface is recorded as a claim or candidate only; it never alone satisfies qualification.
• Each platform has an explicit status: qualified, held, rejected, unsupported, or not tested, with evidence and reviewer fields.
• At least one positive test and one negative test are recorded for every claimed capability; missing tests force held.
• Negative cases for unavailable API, missing entitlement, permission denial, provider dependency, unauthorized file scope, and Store or production action produce a held or rejected result, never a qualified result.
• Accessibility review records keyboard/pointer or touch operation as applicable, text resizing, VoiceOver semantics and order, focus visibility, contrast evidence, reduced-motion behavior, and non-color status cues; any untested item forces held.
• Privacy review records data categories, collection or indexing scope, visibility, credential handling, local custody, retention/deletion behavior, and customer-data boundaries; uncertainty forces held.
• Every source-backed observation contains a source locator, SHA-256, provenance, revision, and lifecycle; missing or mismatched source metadata forces held.
• Chronology test rejects evidence with no date, a conflicting revision, or a claim that exceeds the evidence date.
• Authority test rejects work outside authorized Apple files and holds new entitlements, Store submission, production credentials, provider effects, customer indexing, publication, or external writes.
• Failure-state test verifies that blocked, denied, unavailable, stale, conflicting, and incomplete states show a reason, owner, next action, deadline, and receipt.
• Approval test verifies that final disposition remains proposed or held until a human approval record exists.
• Public-claims test verifies that only evidence-bounded statements are allowed and that deployment, availability, provider connection, indexing, publication, qualification, or production claims remain held unless separately verified.

Negative and held-state tests

• Treating a native API or named surface as proof of a connected web feature.
• Claiming an unavailable API, unsupported platform/version, entitlement, provider, credential, database, customer index, publication, or production effect.
• Testing or describing behavior outside Tim's authorized Apple-file scope.
• Using stale, undated, conflicting, or unverifiable source material.
• Failing to distinguish local prototype or index behavior from canonical specialist-app execution.
• Indexing private, protected, customer, credential, or unrelated records.
• Relying on color, motion, touch-only controls, or unlabeled controls that exclude users.
• Silently retrying blocked work or converting a failure into an approval.
• Publishing doorway documentation or duplicating URLs without distinct useful content.
• Sending messages, writing calendars, submitting to a Store, or changing external systems without approval.

Qualification claim boundary

Potentially allowed only after the stated evidence

• This is a proposal-only qualification procedure.
• The package defines evidence, negative, accessibility, privacy, chronology, source, authority, and failure-state tests.
• The supplied native contract identifies local prototype, indexed, or held surfaces and preserves authority boundaries.
• A capability may be described as a candidate or held pending evidence and approval.

Still held

• That any Apple API or framework is currently available, connected, or production-ready.
• That Apple Intelligence, Spotlight indexing, App Intents, or any other native surface is deployed or connected to a web feature.
• That any entitlement has been granted or any Store submission has occurred.
• That provider credentials, databases, customer records, production systems, or external calendar/message effects are connected.
• That customer indexing, publication, or public documentation has occurred.
• That the capability has passed qualification before deterministic tests and human approval are complete.

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:native-capability-qualification
• job:tim:native-capability-qualification
• observed_native_contract.records
• observed_native_contract.pointguard
• observed_native_contract.web_boundary
• app_routes:/app/notebook/field-guides/
• app_routes:/app/notebook/approvals/
• app_routes:/app/notebook/agent-logs/
• allowed_instrument:wcag-contrast-ratio-checker
• allowed_instrument:date-duration-calculator