Core Spotlight — boundaries

Record status

Record ID

tool:core-spotlight

Parent lifecycle

candidate

Page lane

contract boundaries

Lane lifecycle

proposed

Owner

Tim

Owner role

Apple platform specialist

Owner status

Not separately recorded

Qualification result

NOT RUN · held for evidence and human review

Working browser surface: Tools — overview — Inspect the tool contract, usage, boundaries, and proposed qualification checks. This route is local-only; provider, credential, database, customer, publication, deployment, and production effects remain held.

Hazards and failure states

• Observed tool catalog presence may be mistaken for implementation or deployment.
• Apple platform, API, entitlement, or version assumptions may be stale or unsupported by supplied evidence.
• Cross-device behavior may differ across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
• Unauthorized file edits could exceed the authority boundary.
• New entitlements, production credentials, publishing, and store submission are gated actions.
• Concurrent authorship or racing another writer can create conflicting changes.
• A proposal may be mistaken for a verified capability, production implementation, or approved submission.

Claims potentially allowed after source review

• The source record identifies Tim as owner and Apple platform specialist.
• The tool is bounded to Apple platform discovery, Swift and SwiftUI implementation, App Intents and Spotlight, cross-device product families, and native capability qualification.
• The related field guides are iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, Liquid Glass, and Apple capability index.
• New entitlements, store submission, production credentials, and scope outside authorized Apple files are principal gates.
• Racing another writer and claiming an unavailable API are prohibited.
• All outputs are proposal-only.

Claims held

• The tool is implemented or connected.
• Any named Apple API is available or qualified.
• Any entitlement has been granted.
• Production credentials exist or are accessible.
• A project is deployment-ready.
• A store submission has occurred or is authorized.
• Cross-device behavior is verified.
• Any implementation has been written, tested, published, or submitted.
• The tool can act outside authorized Apple files.

Source gates and never-rules

The source record provides 4 principal gates and 3 never-rules. This page does not infer or add to those counts.

• New entitlements
• Store submission
• Production credentials
• Scope outside authorized Apple files

• Race another writer
• Claim an unavailable API
• Publish or submit without approval

Sources and evidence

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

• source_record:tool:core-spotlight
• agents/index.html#tim