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

tool / candidate

# Xcode

Proposal-only contract for coordinating Apple-platform discovery and implementation work associated with Xcode, including Swift, SwiftUI, App Intents, Spotlight, cross-device product families, and native capability qualification. The source record does not prove implementation, connection, qualification, deployment, or authority.

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

## Record status

**Record ID**: tool:xcode

**Parent lifecycle**: candidate

**Page lane**: contract

**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.

## Bounded contract

Proposal-only contract for coordinating Apple-platform discovery and implementation work associated with Xcode, including Swift, SwiftUI, App Intents, Spotlight, cross-device product families, and native capability qualification. The source record does not prove implementation, connection, qualification, deployment, or authority.

### Owners

- Tim

- Apple platform specialist

### Inputs

- Authorized Apple-platform product scope

- Swift and SwiftUI implementation requirements

- Apple platform targets

- App Intents and Spotlight requirements

- Cross-device product-family requirements

- Native capability qualification questions

- Authorized Apple files and change boundaries

- Approval status for entitlements, production credentials, and Store submission

### Outputs

- Proposal-only implementation plans

- Proposal-only Apple-platform discovery findings

- Proposal-only Swift or SwiftUI work breakdowns

- Proposal-only App Intents and Spotlight integration plans

- Proposal-only cross-device product-family plans

- Proposal-only native capability qualification records

- Escalation records for principal gates or out-of-scope work

## Required or proposed record references

The list defines expected records; it does not assert that any record instance exists.

- Authorized scope record

- Apple platform target record

- Capability qualification record

- Entitlement approval record when applicable

- Production credential approval record when applicable

- Store submission approval record when applicable

- Apple-file boundary record

- Implementation or discovery decision log

- Validation and failure-state record

## Route contract

The links below are this site's admitted canonical public records. Source-lane route suggestions are proposals only and are not represented as live or canonical until separately admitted.

[01**overview**/docs/tools/xcode/](<https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/xcode/>)[02**usage**/docs/tools/xcode/usage/](<https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/xcode/usage/>)[03**boundaries**/docs/tools/xcode/boundaries/](<https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/xcode/boundaries/>)[04**qualification**/docs/tools/xcode/qualification/](<https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/xcode/qualification/>)

### Held source-proposed extensions

- /docs/xcode/contract: bounded purpose, owners, inputs, outputs, authority boundary, and non-claims

- /docs/xcode/workflows: proposal-only Swift, SwiftUI, discovery, App Intents, Spotlight, and cross-device workflow stages

- /docs/xcode/gates: entitlement, credential, Store submission, and authorized-file approval requirements

- /docs/xcode/failure-states: unavailable API, missing approval, ambiguous authority, and out-of-scope handling

These extension paths are not generated by this record and must not be treated as resolving routes.

## 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`