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

tool / candidate

# Xcode — qualification

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

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

## Record status

**Record ID**: tool:xcode

**Parent lifecycle**: candidate

**Page lane**: docs_qualification

**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.

## Qualification status

**Result**: NOT RUN

**Disposition**: HELD

**Reviewer**: Not recorded

**Receipt**: Not recorded

This page defines proposed acceptance criteria for the docs_qualification lane. It does not execute tests, establish compliance, qualify the subject, or authorize an effect.

### Lane-specific instrument aids

No verified instrument is assigned to this qualification lane.

## Outcome definitions

**Verified**: All stated evidence and acceptance requirements passed for the exact reviewed revision; this still does not authorize deployment or an external effect.

**Failed**: One or more deterministic acceptance requirements failed with an inspectable reason.

**Needs review**: Evidence or interpretation is incomplete, conflicting, or awaits an identified human reviewer.

**Held**: Authority, required evidence, safe execution conditions, or a principal gate is absent.

The current record remains NOT RUN / HELD. These definitions describe candidate outcomes only.

## Catalog-observed source metadata

These fields are reproduced from the admitted candidate record for source-fidelity inspection. Presence does not prove implementation, connection, qualification, authority, or an external effect.

**tool_id**: tool:xcode

**slug**: xcode

**title**: Xcode

**owner_agents**: Tim

**owner_roles**: Apple platform specialist

**related_jobs**: Swift and SwiftUI implementation; Apple platform discovery; App Intents and Spotlight; Cross-device product families; Native capability qualification

**related_field_guides**: iOS 27; iPadOS 27; macOS 27; Liquid Glass; Apple capability index

**principal_gates**: New entitlements; Store submission; Production credentials; Scope outside authorized Apple files

**never_rules**: Race another writer; Claim an unavailable API; Publish or submit without approval

**lifecycle**: candidate

**source_refs**: agents/index.html#tim

## Proposed deterministic qualification tests

- Index page states proposal-only status and names Tim as owner without implying implementation or deployment.

- Every related job has a distinct page or a documented reason for exclusion.

- Every field guide is presented as a topic reference only; no page claims current API availability from the supplied record alone.

- Capability claims are accepted only when linked to a supplied evidence record; otherwise the result is BLOCKED or NOT_PROVEN.

- A claim that an API exists fails unless an exact API evidence record identifies platform, version, availability, and applicable authorization.

- A new-entitlement claim fails unless an entitlement record identifies the entitlement, purpose, approval state, and authorized scope.

- Store-submission readiness fails when approval evidence is absent; documentation must not state that submission occurred.

- Production-credential readiness fails when credential authorization and handling records are absent.

- Scope qualification fails when requested work extends outside authorized Apple files or when authorization is not recorded.

- Never-rule test: a proposed workflow must not schedule racing another writer; any such step is rejected.

- Never-rule test: unavailable or unproven APIs must be labeled UNVERIFIED/BLOCKED, never presented as available.

- Never-rule test: publishing or submitting without approval is rejected.

- Accessibility test: all interactive controls have programmatic names, visible focus, logical keyboard order, and no keyboard trap.

- Accessibility test: VoiceOver can reach, identify, operate, and receive state changes for every control and result.

- Accessibility test: text and controls remain usable at supported Dynamic Type sizes without clipped or obscured essential content.

- Accessibility test: information is not conveyed by color alone and contrast requirements are recorded as test outcomes, not assumed.

- Accessibility test: reduced-motion settings suppress nonessential motion and do not remove essential information.

- Privacy test: documentation contains no real production credentials, secrets, personal identifiers, or unapproved telemetry examples.

- Privacy test: each proposed data item has purpose, collection location, retention, deletion, and sharing status, or is marked NOT_PROVEN.

- Privacy test: permission prompts have a documented user-facing purpose and are not described as approved without evidence.

- Abuse test: malformed, oversized, unsupported, and unauthorized capability claims receive deterministic rejection or blocked status.

- Abuse test: links and examples cannot instruct users to bypass entitlements, Store review, production-credential controls, or file-scope authorization.

- Source test: every factual catalog claim traces to agents/index.html#tim; later claims require a separately recorded source.

- Authority test: ownership by Tim is not treated as approval authority for entitlements, submission, credentials, or scope expansion.

- Status test: a page may be INDEXED only after route content and source traceability pass; capability qualification remains PROPOSED until implementation evidence exists.

- Conflict test: if later evidence conflicts with the supplied record, retain both records, mark the claim disputed, and do not resolve by inference.

## Negative and abuse cases

- The tool name is cataloged, but implementation and connection are unproven.

- Apple platform versions and APIs may change; the supplied record does not establish availability.

- New entitlements may create security, privacy, or review obligations.

- Store submission and production credentials require explicit approval and controlled handling.

- Cross-device behavior may differ by platform, hardware, OS version, or capability availability.

- Liquid Glass is listed as a field-guide topic, not as a proven UI implementation or requirement.

- Accessibility, privacy, and abuse controls cannot be inferred from tool ownership.

- Documentation could accidentally turn a related job into an unsupported product or deployment claim.

- Unauthorized scope expansion outside Apple files may create operational, legal, or review risk.

## Qualification claim boundary

### Potentially allowed only after evidence and review

- The catalog contains a tool record with tool_id tool:xcode and slug xcode.

- The recorded title is Xcode.

- Tim is listed as the owner agent and Apple platform specialist.

- The recorded related jobs include Swift and SwiftUI implementation, Apple platform discovery, App Intents and Spotlight, Cross-device product families, and Native capability qualification.

- The recorded field guides include iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, Liquid Glass, and Apple capability index.

- The recorded principal gates include new entitlements, Store submission, production credentials, and scope outside authorized Apple files.

- The recorded never-rules prohibit racing another writer, claiming an unavailable API, and publishing or submitting without approval.

- The proposed documentation can define evidence requirements, qualification states, and deterministic tests for these topics.

### Still held

- Xcode is implemented or connected.

- Any Apple API is available, current, or authorized.

- iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, or Liquid Glass behavior is verified.

- App Intents or Spotlight integration exists.

- Cross-device product-family support exists.

- Any entitlement has been granted or approved.

- Store submission has occurred or is ready.

- Production credentials exist or are authorized.

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

- Tim has authority to approve entitlements, Store submission, production credentials, or scope expansion.

- Any customer use, performance metric, compatibility result, or production effect.

## 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`