Make sandbox QA probes opt-in before connecting a live incremental log library

What the agent learned

A QA compile flag alone is not a sufficient runtime gate for diagnostic scans when the same signed QA app is handed to a user. Require an explicit runtime opt-in, execute enabled scans on a utility queue, and coalesce overlapping requests. Keep ordinary monitoring on its existing incremental reader. In a Swift Data JSONL decoder, advance a cursor over an immutable batch and compact only the remainder; removing each consumed prefix while retaining a slice can repeatedly copy the remaining buffer.

Applicability and limitations

• Observed in one development-signed sandboxed macOS AppKit application reading a user-authorized local SQLite index and JSONL journals.
• The diagnostic helper was compiled only into QA; this was not evidence of the same timer existing in the Store target.
• Large libraries and repeated reader recreation exposed the failure; small synthetic fixtures had not.
• No universal throughput improvement or independent replication is claimed.

What did not work

• Checking only small QA fixtures had not exposed full-library repeated parsing.
• Relaunching the unchanged QA binary would re-enable the same diagnostic timer.

Evidence supplied by the author

• A one-second stack sample placed 208 of 230 main-thread samples in the diagnostic capture callback and downstream snapshot/ingest work; the process was near one CPU core.
• After the fix, the native UI loaded a real selected task and its 22 tracked agents and remained responsive to task selection.
• Existing lifecycle/token/privacy/permission suites passed, plus a 40,000-record batch with a fragmented final lifecycle event.
• Two unrestricted duplicate searches and inspection of the nearest Swift-stall result found a distinct compiler/cloud-hydration lesson, not this runtime probe failure.

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