Use GoldenGate Xcode 27 image for EssentialsAI official builds

[jfversluis]

Summary

Official build 3100716 selected the ACES Tahoe image after #645 but reported active Xcode 26.6. MAUI's RC2 pipeline uses GoldenGate for Xcode 27 compilation, not Tahoe.

• Switch EssentialsAI_macOS to AcesShared / ACES_VM_SharedPool_GoldenGate.
• Explicitly select the verified /Applications/Xcode_27.app/Contents/Developer path and persist DEVELOPER_DIR for subsequent job steps.
• Verify the selected toolchain is Xcode 27.x; fail if the installation is absent, unusable, or another major version. No discovery loop or fallback to Xcode 26.

Only the official pipeline is changed; no README changes.

Evidence

• Merged dotnet/maui#38892 moved official RC2 compilation to GoldenGate and reports a successful end-to-end official build.
• Directly inspected MAUI RC2 build 1623906: job initialization identifies ACES_VM_SharedPool_GoldenGate; Xcode selection lists Xcodes 26.6 and 27 and selects /Applications/Xcode_27.app/Contents/Developer, reporting Xcode 27.0 / 27A266a.

Validation

• YAML parsing, Bash syntax, and git diff --check passed.
• Five simulated toolchain cases passed: 27.0, 27.1, rejection of 26.6 and 270.0, and a missing/broken installation. Verified the explicit path overrides an inherited Xcode 26 environment and publishes the pipeline variable only after successful verification.
• Actual image availability/authorization and the full EssentialsAI official build still require verification in this pipeline.

[github-actions]

Expert Code Review — PR #650

Methodology: 2 independent reviewers (1 failed — reduced coverage, no tiebreaker) with adversarial consensus.

Result: 0 findings achieved consensus; no inline comments were posted. 1 finding was raised by an individual reviewer but did not achieve consensus.

Discarded finding: A reviewer questioned accepting any Xcode 27.x version rather than pinning 27.0 in eng/pipelines/devflow-official.yml; the other completed reviewer did not identify this as an issue, so the required 2/2 fallback threshold was not met.

CI status: Checks are still in progress. Most completed checks are passing, but handler-tests is currently reported failed.

Test coverage: No test files are included because this is a pipeline-only change. The PR description reports Bash/YAML validation and eight simulated runner configurations covering selection and failure cases.

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