Hello, I am Ahmed Hamade, founder of Pixel Ventures LLC, Apple Developer Program Team ID LM3P28DNVQ. I am asking Apple to grant the restricted entitlement com.apple.developer.vfs.snapshot to our team for a macOS backup application named PixelProtect. If this is not the right channel, please tell me where to send the request. PixelProtect backs up a whole Mac volume. It keeps one primary backup set on a local disk and a replica of that same set in cloud storage, protects both copies against deletion, and supports recovery. We built it for people whose AI coding agents can delete data. We need snapshots for three reasons. First, files change while a backup runs, so the backup must read from one point in time to copy a consistent state. Second, snapshots let us keep local restore points without copying the data again. Third, Time Machine takes local snapshots for the same purpose. The only alternative today is tmutil localsnapshot, whose snapshots the system manages and ages out, so we could not keep restore points of our own. We would use fs_snapshot_create, fs_snapshot_list, fs_snapshot_delete and fs_snapshot_mount. We do not use fs_snapshot_revert. Restores copy files out of a mounted snapshot. Only our privileged helper calls these functions. It runs as root, is registered with SMAppService, and is packaged as an app-like bundle (planned App ID ai.pixelventures.pixelprotect.daemon) so it can embed a provisioning profile. The main app (ai.pixelventures.pixelprotect) and our command line tool send requests to the helper and do not call these functions. We limit use as follows. Snapshots are created only on volumes the user chose to back up. The user controls how long snapshots are kept. The helper deletes only snapshots it created, which carry our own name prefix, and only under the user's retention rules or an action the user confirms. PixelProtect is signed with our Developer ID Application certificate, uses the hardened runtime, is notarized, and is distributed outside the Mac App Store to Pixel Ventures clients. It is not sandboxed, because a whole-volume backup reads the whole volume. It has no public marketing page yet, so a product description is attached. Please enable the entitlement for Team ID LM3P28DNVQ for development and for Developer ID distribution, or tell me what further information you need. I tried the code-level support request form and it requires a sample project, so I am asking here as the form suggested Thank you, Ahmed Hamade Founder, Pixel Ventures LLC Team ID LM3P28DNVQ I tried the code-level support request form and it requires a sample project, so I am asking here as the form suggested