Inheritance of Accessibility user consent

In the footsteps of the old The Rules for Full Disk Access thread, I am a little confused about the inheritance rules for Accessibility user consent (System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility) for helper tools contained in an app bundle.

In my tests, user consent for Full Disk Access is inherited by helper tools (and app bundles) if the user permits Full Disk Access for the containing app bundle. Other categories, such as Screen Recording, also show this behavior.

However Accessibility seems to be different: Consent is not inherited by helper tools and app bundles.

Is that the intended behavior / documented anywhere? Or am I missing something?


Is that … documented anywhere?

AFAIK it’s not documented anywhere. In the absence of documentation it’s hard to answer your other questions. If you want a definitive answer, I encourage you to open a DTS tech support incident so that I can allocate time to look into this.

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