dev.cocore.compute.attestation

          "tier": {

            "ref": "dev.cocore.compute.defs#tier",

            "type": "ref",

            "description": "The provider's self-asserted confidentiality tier for work done under this attestation. ADVISORY ONLY: a verifier MUST recompute the tier from the evidence in this record (bound mdaCertChain, cdHash ∈ known-good, posture booleans) and the session handshake, and MUST NOT trust this field. Present so consumers can display the provider's claim before verifying. Optional / additive; absent equivalent to `best-effort`."

          },

          "cdHash": {

            "type": "string",

            "maxLength": 64,

            "minLength": 40,

            "description": "Lowercase hex of the code-signing directory hash (cdhash) the OS actually enforces for the running cocore-provider binary, read from the live process (SecCodeCopySelf / SecCodeCopySigningInformation, fallback csops CS_OPS_CDHASH). This is the measured identity a confidential-tier verifier checks against the known-good set — unlike `binaryHash` it reflects exactly what library validation and `get-task-allow=false` protect. Optional / additive; absent caps the work at `best-effort`."

          },

          "teamId": {

            "type": "string",

            "maxLength": 64,

            "description": "Apple Developer Team Identifier from the code signature of the running binary. A confidential-tier verifier pins this to the expected cocore signing team so a validly-signed but unrelated binary cannot pass. Optional / additive."

          },

          "antiDebug": {

            "type": "boolean",

            "description": "True iff the process denied debugger attachment at startup (PT_DENY_ATTACH). Required for `attested-confidential`. Optional / additive; absent treated as false."

          },

          "appAttest": {

            "type": "object",

            "required": [

              "object",

              "keyId"

            ],

            "properties": {

              "keyId": {

                "type": "bytes",

                "maxLength": 64,

                "description": "The App Attest key identifier (the SHA-256 of the attested public key) DCAppAttestService.generateKey returned. Verifiers cross-check this equals the credentialId in authData."

              },

              "object": {

                "type": "bytes",

                "maxLength": 16384,

                "description": "The CBOR App Attest attestation object returned by DCAppAttestService.attestKey, as produced for `clientDataHash = sha256(publicKey)`. Contains fmt, attStmt (x5c + receipt), and authData."

              }

            },

            "description": "Optional Apple App Attest evidence — the second, MDM-free path to trustLevel 'hardware-attested'. The provider's signed helper calls DCAppAttestService with `clientDataHash = sha256(publicKey)` (this record's receipt-signing key), so Apple's attestation commits to the signing key by construction. Verifiers MUST, offline: (1) CBOR-decode `object`, requiring fmt 'apple-appattest'; (2) verify the attStmt x5c chain to the embedded Apple App Attest Root CA; (3) recompute `nonce = sha256(authData || sha256(publicKey))` and require it to equal the credential certificate's nonce extension (OID 1.2.840.113635.100.8.2) — THIS is the binding to the signing key; (4) check authData's rpIdHash == sha256(App ID 'TEAMID.dev.cocore.provider'), the AAGUID is the genuine-hardware appattest value, and credentialId == sha256(attested public key) == `keyId`. A bound, valid App Attest object earns 'hardware-attested' exactly as a bound mdaCertChain does. It proves genuine, un-tampered Apple hardware holds a Secure-Enclave key bound to the signing key; it does NOT by itself prove the signing key is SE-resident nor that the running binary is honest (those are carried by the SE-backed signing identity + hardened-runtime + cdHash known-good gate, same self-measurement ceiling as the MDA path)."

          },

            "description": "SHA-256 hex of the cocore-provider binary that produced this attestation. Back-compat measure of the whole file on disk. For trust decisions `cdHash` supersedes it: the OS enforces the code-signing cdhash, not a whole-file digest, so a verifier deciding `tier` MUST prefer `cdHash` when present and treat `binaryHash` as informational."

          "envScrubbed": {

            "type": "boolean",

            "description": "True iff dynamic-linker injection vectors (DYLD_*) were scrubbed from the environment at startup. Required for `attested-confidential`. Optional / additive; absent treated as false."

          },

          "getTaskAllow": {

            "type": "boolean",

            "description": "Value of the get-task-allow entitlement on the running binary. MUST be false for `attested-confidential` — a true value means another process (even the owner) can attach a debugger and read process memory, defeating confidentiality. Optional / additive; absent treated as true (the unsafe default) so a missing value never silently earns the confidential tier."

          },

            "description": "Optional Apple Managed Device Attestation certificate chain (DER), leaf first. One of two paths to trustLevel 'hardware-attested' (the other is `appAttest`). Verifiers MUST: (1) verify every adjacent link to the embedded Apple Enterprise Attestation Root CA, enforcing BasicConstraints (non-leaf certs are CAs, the leaf is an end-entity); and (2) BIND the chain to this record's `publicKey` by EITHER the leaf's P-256 public key EQUALLING `publicKey`, OR the Apple freshness extension (OID 1.2.840.113635.100.8.11.1) committing to it as `freshnessCode == sha256(publicKey)`. Without a binding a valid Apple chain for one device could be stapled onto an unrelated signing key, so a chain that verifies but isn't bound MUST NOT earn 'hardware-attested'."

          },

          "metallibHash": {

            "type": "string",

            "maxLength": 64,

            "minLength": 64,

            "description": "SHA-256 hex of the precompiled Metal shader library (`mlx.metallib` or equivalent) the in-process inference engine loads at runtime. The GPU kernels that touch the plaintext live here, so a confidential verifier pins this to a known-good value alongside `cdHash`. Absent when no native engine is loaded (e.g. the subprocess/best-effort backend). Optional / additive."

          "engineLibHash": {

            "type": "string",

            "maxLength": 64,

            "minLength": 64,

            "description": "SHA-256 hex of the dynamic library that runs the in-process inference engine (e.g. `libCoCoreMLX.dylib`). When the engine is a separately-loaded dylib rather than code statically inside the agent binary, the `cdHash` does not cover it, so a confidential verifier pins this too. Enforced library validation already blocks a different team's dylib; this additionally locks the hash within the provider team's own blessed releases. Absent when inference runs in a subprocess or fully inside the measured binary. Optional / additive."

          },

          "hardenedRuntime": {

            "type": "boolean",

            "description": "True iff the running binary is signed with the hardened runtime (CS_RUNTIME). Required for `attested-confidential`. Optional / additive; absent treated as false."

          },

          "inProcessBackend": {

            "type": "boolean",

            "description": "True iff inference runs INSIDE this measured, signed binary (native in-process engine) rather than in an owner-controlled subprocess/interpreter. This is THE load-bearing confidentiality property — if false, the prompt is handed to a process the attestation does not cover, so the work can never be `attested-confidential`. Optional / additive; absent treated as false."

          },

          "coreDumpsDisabled": {

            "type": "boolean",

            "description": "True iff core dumps were disabled at startup (RLIMIT_CORE=0), so a crash cannot spill plaintext to disk. Required for `attested-confidential`. Optional / additive; absent treated as false."

          },

          "libraryValidation": {

            "type": "boolean",

            "description": "True iff library validation is enforced (the binary will not load libraries signed by a different team / unsigned code). Closes the dylib-injection path. Required for `attested-confidential`. Optional / additive; absent treated as false."

          },