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

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# Core Spotlight — usage

The distinct usage 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**: 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](<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.

## Workflow use

- Identify the applicable Apple platform and requested capability.

- Map the request to Swift and SwiftUI implementation, Apple platform discovery, App Intents and Spotlight, cross-device product families, or native capability qualification.

- Check the Apple capability index and relevant platform field guide.

- Check whether new entitlements, Store submission, production credentials, or unauthorized Apple-file scope are involved.

- Record unresolved API, entitlement, credential, or authority questions.

- Prepare proposal-only guidance for review.

- 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`