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 ## Status
 
 Accepted.
+[ADR 0038](0038-snapshot-capture-source-routing.md) owns snapshot source routing for every platform.
+Until the router from [#4205](https://github.com/callstack/agent-device/issues/4205) replaces the Apple route, the routing rules here describe the current iOS code.
+The iOS reader, runner capture plan, presentation, geometry, and in-place system-surface contracts remain here.
 This ADR was amended after local iOS Simulator acquisition moved to the host AX bridge, and again for provider iOS Simulators that the runner serves.
 The public surface remains two modes: regular interactive snapshots and raw diagnostic snapshots.
 The host AX bridge is an acquisition route, not a third public mode.
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+# ADR 0038: Snapshot capture source routing
+
+## Status
+
+Accepted.
+This record owns snapshot source routing for every platform and provider.
+It amends [ADR 0004](0004-ios-snapshot-backend-strategy.md), which keeps the iOS acquisition, presentation, geometry, and system-surface contracts.
+The router does not exist yet. [#4205](https://github.com/callstack/agent-device/issues/4205) holds the migration plan and its guards.
+
+## Context
+
+Only iOS has a source-selection rule, in the Apple platform runtime.
+Its runner source fills the route's ports with constants.
+Eligibility has three owners, fallback has three settlers, and producer facts have about six tables.
+Each other platform has one hard-wired source with its own refusal and identity vocabulary.
+
+## Decision
+
+**Router.** One platform-neutral router in `@agent-device/capture-kit` owns planning, fallback, refusal scope, circuits, surface proof, and warnings.
+Owners with more than one source use the router.
+Today these owners are the local and Limrun iOS Simulators: the simulator AX bridge first, then the XCTest runner.
+The router depends on no platform or provider code.
+Lease and lock authority stays with [ADR 0007](0007-remote-device-leases.md).
+
+**One-source owners.** An owner with one source does not use the router.
+It stamps identity through the capture-kit helper.
+When an owner gets a second source, it moves to the router.
+
+**Producers.** One contracts registry keys every producer with a platform-neutral name.
+All other producer facts derive from that registry.
+
+**Identity.** Stamp identity once, after presentation, from the source that served the capture.
+When a system surface serves the capture, the surface owns the published identity, not the app generation below it.
+
+**Fallback.** A capture tries one alternate source at most.
+If the alternate fails, the capture keeps the first reason.
+Cancellation is terminal: it neither falls back nor changes a circuit.
+Never relax a backend pin or an observe-only request to make a fallback possible.
+A source never routes to another source.
+
+**Refusal scope.** Each typed refusal has one scope:
+
+| Scope | Effect |
+| --- | --- |
+| Capture | The source stays eligible for the next capture. |
+| App generation | The source stays disabled until the app has a new generation. |
+| Runner session | The source stays disabled until the runner has a new session id. |
+
+An unknown refusal code has app-generation scope.
+Without a verified app generation, an app-generation refusal disables the source for the current capture only and creates no app-generation circuit.
+The refusal fixture is the one table of codes and scopes.
+The router handles cancellation before it classifies a refusal.
+
+**Surface proof.** When a capture needs surface-absence proof, prove absence for that capture. Never cache it.
+An unproven state is not a clear state.
+When surface absence is unproven, an app-only source must refuse an occluded or unverified read through integrated checks.
+An occluded read selects a source that can read the surface.
+A source that declares no proof asserts no absence.
+Acquisition metadata, such as an Android system-only tree, is not a proof.
+A future app-only source needs window-ownership evidence that is tied to its read.
+
+## Rationale
+
+- The router gives multi-source owners one rule for fallback, refusals, and warnings. A new provider declares its sources and does not copy policy.
+- The router applies only where a choice exists. A planner that never chooses adds migration cost and no value.
+- An unknown refusal fails closed for the verified app generation, or for the current capture when the generation is unverified.
+- A surface can appear between captures. A cached absence would publish an occluded read as app content.
+
+## Rejected alternatives
+
+- Placeholder ports on the Apple route: they claim capabilities that a source does not have.
+- A planner for each provider: it duplicates policy, and the copies drift.
+- Annotations as absence proof: they give no evidence from before the read.
+- The router for one-source owners: the planner never chooses for them.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- Provenance types move from kernel to contracts, and both iOS sources bind to the router.
+- Readers, decoding, discovery, process checks, native budgets, geometry, and lifecycle stay platform-specific.
+- Open gaps: the router, the identity-stamp helper, and the producer registry do not exist yet. The runner-session scope is pending [#4256](https://github.com/callstack/agent-device/pull/4256).
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 | [0035 Host-Scoped Devices](0035-macos-app-devices.md) | native macOS apps as devices of their own, the host/scoped-device overlap and claim rule, concurrent app sessions, and `macos-app` lease claims |
 | [0036 Bounded Composite Resource Admission](0036-bounded-composite-resource-admission.md) | resource operations, nested tests, session disposal, and claim recovery inside bounded batch/replay steps |
 | [0037 Web Session Devices](0037-web-session-devices.md) | web sessions as devices of their own, the session name rule, the `p_`/`t_` backend key and tenant isolation, and first-open locking for web |
+| [0038 Snapshot capture source routing](0038-snapshot-capture-source-routing.md) | the source router for multi-source owners, one fallback, refusal scopes, surface proof, and the producer registry |
 
 ADRs record rationale.
 The registries and gates they describe are the current source of truth.