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Author

Spencer Bryngelson, Georgia Institute of Technology. Correspondence: shb@gatech.edu.

Data and code availability

ANEForge, the open-source code artifact accompanying this guide, is at https://github.com/comp-physics/ANEForge, described in arXiv:2606.17090. Appendix E records the provenance of every substantive claim, measured or decompile-derived, and the methodology summarizes it.

Ethics and responsible disclosure

The work reported here is reverse engineering conducted on the author's own Apple hardware, by static decompilation and on-device measurement, for interoperability and research. The guide redistributes no Apple source code or proprietary binaries; it documents facts about the hardware and its interfaces. The direct route it describes is undocumented, unsupported, and version-fragile, and is intended for measurement, research, and on-device work, not for shipping software, where Core ML remains the supported path.

Funding

This was independent work and received no external funding.

Competing interests

The author declares no competing interests. This is an independent work and is not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by Apple Inc.