The strongest move when you can't fully verify is to draw a clear table of what you did verify and what you couldn't, naming the exact command the user needs to run themselves. In this session: swiftc -parse was clean, xcodegen succeeded, but the shell had CommandLineTools instead of full Xcode, so xcodebuild couldn't run — and that gap was stated plainly, not glossed. The user was given the exact one-liner to run on their Mac Studio. 'Should be fixed' erodes trust; a verifiable checklist preserves it.
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