feat(init): reconcile native iOS backend configuration

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Summary

• atomically publish complete registration retry records and provide safe recovery guidance for corrupt state
• reject lowercase App ID Prefixes without rewriting signed-project or backend identity evidence
• test condition casing in xcconfig and inline settings through actual inspection and native registration planning
• add validated Platform API clients for Native API settings and native iOS application registrations
• plan, approve, apply, and verify Native API enablement and exact Bundle ID registration
• reconcile native Sign in with Apple through the existing Config API after registration is ready
• revalidate the linked Clerk application and selected Xcode identity before remote writes
• preserve retry-safe registration recovery and native-only Apple handling in deploy/configuration paths
• test the full xcconfig inspection-to-registration boundary, including uncertain identities and independently safe registration

Scope

This layer contains remote Native and Apple reconciliation. It consumes the local identity and readiness model from the preceding PRs.

It does not expose the workflow through the public clerk init command, add local project mutation algorithms, or add Doctor diagnostics.

The required Platform endpoints are deployed:

• /native_settings
• /native_applications/ios
• native Apple configuration through the existing Config API

Validation

Current head: d957a51c97aef6b0dfe54969b85b7aac20021082.

• Formatting, lint, typechecking, git diff --check, and all 3,754 unit tests passed.
• Integrated head 2aed604b passed all 4,315 unit tests and compilation. All seven updated branch heads passed local checks independently; feat(init): add iOS project inspection foundations #431 and feat(init): add transactional native iOS mutation engines #453 are unchanged.
• Forty new regressions cover prepared-domain validation, source ownership, atomic retry records, prefix casing, entitlement ownership, JSON document/package ambiguity, platform drift, and equivalent file paths.
• All 36 PBX/JSON corpus scenarios passed dry run, apply, unchanged rerun, and read-only Doctor assertions; all 40 unsigned simulator/macOS builds passed. The two custom-runtime existing-domain cases explicitly verify the dirty-file guard before rerunning unchanged with --allow-dirty.
• Toolchains: Xcode 26.5 (17F42) for PBX and Xcode 27.2 beta (27B5019j) for JSON. Corpus APIs used local GET-only stubs; no live backend writes were performed.
• Credential-backed E2E could not start because the current 1Password account cannot access the AI Enablement vault. It remains an outstanding release check, not a passing or failing test. GitHub CI was not queried or awaited; signed-device Apple sign-in was not rerun.
• Detailed local evidence: clerk-cli-real-xcode-corpus/reports/2026-09-25-coderabbit-five.md. Prior conditional SwiftUI-root and signing-output validation is recorded in the earlier reports.

Stack

1. feat(init): add iOS project inspection foundations #431 — native Apple project inspection foundations
2. feat(init): add transactional native iOS mutation engines #453 — transactional local mutation engines
3. feat(init): compose native iOS local setup #489 — native iOS local setup orchestration
4. feat(init): reconcile native iOS backend configuration #454 — native iOS backend reconciliation
5. feat(init): integrate native iOS setup #490 — public native iOS init integration
6. feat(doctor): add native iOS diagnostics #455 — native iOS Doctor diagnostics
7. feat(native): add macOS setup and diagnostics #486 — macOS setup and diagnostics
8. feat(init): support Xcode JSON project format #488 — Xcode JSON project format
9. fix(init): improve established Apple app setup and interactive flow #493 — established app operation gates and neutral entitlement ownership

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Walkthrough

The changes add validated Platform API support for Native Settings and iOS applications. The iOS setup workflow plans and applies native registration and Apple connection changes, with consent, state rechecks, and verification. Production deploy credential setup and status now recognize native Apple readiness and report specific issues. Tests cover these paths, response validation, retry behavior, and development publishable-key fixtures.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d957a

Native iOS registration setup now saves its retry state safely. An interrupted or failed write no longer leaves a corrupted file that blocks later setup runs. No concrete defects remain open in the reviewed changes.

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In `@packages/cli-core/src/commands/init/ios/native-registration-retry.ts`:
- Around line 292-305: Update the retry-record creation flow in the function
containing the `writeFile` call to write the JSON to a uniquely named temporary
sibling, then publish it with `link` so incomplete writes cannot become the
final record and `EEXIST` still follows the existing concurrent-read path. Clean
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keep the change scoped to atomic record creation.

In `@packages/cli-core/src/commands/init/ios/native-remote.ts`:
- Line 42: Update APP_ID_PREFIX_PATTERN and validateAppIdPrefix so accepted App
ID Prefixes are normalized to uppercase before validation and returned in
uppercase. Preserve the existing fail-closed behavior for lowercase entitlement
evidence in localIdentity, and update the "LeGaCy1234" expectation in
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