Source: https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/xcode/boundaries/

tool / candidate

# Xcode — boundaries

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

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

## Record status

**Record ID**: tool:xcode

**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

- The observed catalog entry may not establish that an Xcode integration exists.

- Apple APIs, entitlements, platform behavior, and capability availability may be unavailable or unverified in the working context.

- Requests may exceed authorized Apple files or project scope.

- Production credentials may be absent, restricted, or unauthorized.

- Store submission or publication may be attempted without approval.

- Concurrent edits may conflict if another writer is active.

- Platform names or field-guide references do not by themselves prove current compatibility or deployment readiness.

## Claims potentially allowed after source review

- The source record associates Xcode with Tim and the Apple platform specialist role.

- The proposed bounded purpose covers the listed Apple-platform jobs.

- The source record lists 4 principal gates and 3 never-rules.

- The tool may produce proposal-only plans and records if the required authorization and evidence are supplied.

## Claims held

- Xcode is implemented or connected.

- Xcode is qualified for any Apple platform.

- Any particular Apple API is available.

- Any entitlement has been granted.

- Production credentials exist or are authorized.

- A Store submission has occurred or is approved.

- The tool can publish, submit, deploy, or modify files outside authorized Apple scope.

- The tool has current platform metrics, customer use, or demonstrated effects.

## 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:xcode`

- `agents/index.html#tim`