TL;DR: Nothing in this cycle is a feature, and all of it is what stands between a working app and a shipped one. Signing, entitlements, and distribution on macOS are a minefield of one-time knowledge — so that knowledge became scripts and checklists instead of memory.

What landed

• Code-signing guides and operational scripts

• Entitlement diagnostics and fix tooling — when signing breaks, the tooling says why

• App Store metadata and submission prep documentation

• Release-oriented operational checklists

Why document the boring parts?

Solo development means there’s no release engineer to ask. Every signing incantation you figure out at 2 a.m. either gets written down or gets figured out again at the next 2 a.m. This cycle (125 files changed, 4,404 insertions) chose writing it down — and it’s a big part of why the eventual App Store submission went through.

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