`verification/TK-11230/native-build8/cloud-signing-decision/codex-debate.txt`

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**PROSECUTOR:** A understates its effects by calling this “local-only.” Apple documents that cloud-signing requests can trigger automatic certificate creation or rotation; exporting locally does not make signing an account-read-only operation. Stopping on errors cannot undo changes already made. A valid ASC key also does not establish cloud-signing permission. [Apple certificate documentation](https://developer.apple.com/help/account/certificates/cloud-managed-certificates)

**DEFENDER:** Those objections defeat a guarantee of zero account changes, but A makes a bounded export attempt using automatic cloud signing. The stated constraints prohibit uploads, device registration, explicit revocation, and email—not ordinary cloud-signing management. Apple explicitly supports signing without a local Distribution private key and distinguishes export from upload. Permission uncertainty supports the specified stop-on-error rule; it does not establish that the attempt is inappropriate. [Apple’s distribution workflow](https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10204/)

**JUDGE:** The defender prevails. The prosecutor exposes imprecise wording and uncertain permissions, but neither contradicts the supplied authorization for scoped signing work. Requiring a local private key would reject a documented alternative without testing it.

FINAL: KEEP

Proceed with the single constrained export attempt. The controlling distinction is that “local-only” describes the artifact’s destination, not the signing service’s operation: automatic signing can manage remote signing assets. On the supplied constraints, that inherent behavior does not invalidate A, while the bans on upload, device registration, explicit revocation, and email remain binding.