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Core Spotlight — usage

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

Status: proposedLifecycle: candidate

Record status

Record ID
tool:core-spotlight
Parent lifecycle
candidate
Page lane
usage
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.

Workflow use

  1. Identify the applicable Apple platform and requested capability.
  2. Map the request to Swift and SwiftUI implementation, Apple platform discovery, App Intents and Spotlight, cross-device product families, or native capability qualification.
  3. Check the Apple capability index and relevant platform field guide.
  4. Check whether new entitlements, Store submission, production credentials, or unauthorized Apple-file scope are involved.
  5. Record unresolved API, entitlement, credential, or authority questions.
  6. Prepare proposal-only guidance for review.
  7. Obtain approval before publishing or submitting changes.

Related jobs

  • Swift and SwiftUI implementation
  • Apple platform discovery
  • App Intents and Spotlight
  • Cross-device product families
  • Native capability qualification

Field guides

  • iOS 27
  • iPadOS 27
  • macOS 27
  • Liquid Glass
  • Apple capability index

Project contexts

  • Apple-platform application work
  • Swift and SwiftUI implementation projects
  • App Intents and Spotlight integration
  • Cross-device product families
  • Native capability qualification

Usage records

  • Tool identity: tool:core-spotlight
  • Related job and field-guide scope
  • Applicable principal gates
  • Applicable never-rules
  • Approval status before publication or submission
  • Evidence that requested APIs and entitlements are available

Lane-specific verified instrument aids

No compatible verified instrument is admitted for the usage lane.

Compatibility here means a bounded proposal aid. It does not verify the tool, its implementation, or an external result.

Usage boundary

This usage lane is proposal-only. Implementation, connection, qualification, deployment, publication, provider access, credentials, and authority remain unproven and held.

  • Implementation, connection, qualification, deployment, and authority are not proven by the source record.
  • New entitlements may be required.
  • Store submission may require separate approval.
  • Production credentials are not established.
  • Scope may extend outside authorized Apple files.
  • Requested APIs may be unavailable or unverified.
  • iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, Liquid Glass, and the Apple capability index are supplied references, not proof of current availability.
  • Do not race another writer.
  • Do not claim an unavailable API.
  • Do not 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