Source: https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/core-spotlight/boundaries/

tool / candidate

# Core Spotlight — boundaries

The distinct boundaries record for Core Spotlight. This page is proposal-only.

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

## 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](<https://guthlabs.ai/labs.html#tools>) — 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`