Apple-Docs-2.0-MCP

# Apple Docs 2.0 MCP - Apple Developer Documentation Model Context Protocol Server

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Apple Developer Documentation for AI assistants, through the Model Context Protocol: API reference, articles, sample
code, tutorials, the Human Interface Guidelines, App Store Connect Help, the web-service APIs (App Store Connect API, App
Store Server API and others) and 1,700 WWDC sessions with their transcripts and code, in Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any
MCP client.

Apple Docs 2.0 MCP is a fork of [Apple Docs MCP](https://github.com/kimsungwhee/apple-docs-mcp) by
[kimsungwhee](https://github.com/kimsungwhee), improved with additions, fixes and a new tool.

**English** | [日本語](README.ja.md) | [한국어](README.ko.md) | [简体中文](README.zh-CN.md)

## 🆕 What's New in 2.0

Apple Docs 2.0 MCP keeps every tool of Apple Docs MCP 1.0.26 and fixes what stopped working or came back incomplete,
so your assistant answers from Apple's own documentation instead of guessing.

### 🔍 Search that returns results

`search_apple_docs` is fixed: it now uses the same search service Apple's website uses, so your assistant gets the
results you would see on developer.apple.com: API reference, articles, sample code, design guidelines, App Store Connect
Help and WWDC videos. In the original, searches come back empty since Apple changed its search page.

Ask about an API, a design guideline or an App Store process, and the assistant searches first, then reads the pages
it finds.

### 🗺️ Look up any page by name

A new tool, `search_docs_map`, finds any of 336,629 pages by name, or part of one, offline:

- API symbols: types, methods, properties, enum cases, macros
- articles, tutorials and sample code
- Info.plist and entitlement keys
- web-service endpoints, such as the App Store Connect API's
- Human Interface Guidelines and App Store Connect Help pages

Use it when you already know a name, from code or an error message, to open its page directly.

### 📄 Complete documentation pages

Pages come through whole, as on Apple's site: every method and property with its full signature
(`var view: UIView!`, not just `view`), what a type inherits from and conforms to, related APIs, and the OS versions
that support it. 2.0 also reads the Human Interface Guidelines, tutorials, App Store Connect Help, and App Store
Connect API endpoints with their parameters and responses.

Ask about any API, guideline or App Store Connect topic, and the assistant reads the full page before it answers or
writes code.

### 🎥 WWDC 2014–2026, with code

1,700 sessions are built in, WWDC26 included, and work offline: transcripts for 1,416 of them and code samples for
715, each sample with the time it appears in the video. Sessions are filed under the same topics as on Apple's
website.

Ask how a new API works, and the assistant can quote the WWDC session that introduced it, with its code.

### 📋 Complete framework lists

The original's technology list stopped after 200 entries, so whole categories (Graphics and Games, Media, System, Web)
never appeared, and its symbol search mixed in headings with broken links. 2.0 lists everything, marks frameworks in
beta, and finds frameworks by subject: "Machine learning" returns Core ML, Create ML, Foundation Models, Vision and
more.

Ask which frameworks fit a task, such as machine learning or audio, and the assistant compares the full list.

### 🛠️ Built to keep working

Up-to-date dependencies, requests that look like a normal browser's and wait their turn (Apple returns empty searches
when they come too fast), automatic retries when a request fails, and 255 automated tests. All 63 usage examples in
the original's README run without errors.

Nothing to set up: no API key or account.

## ✨ Features

- 🔍 **Search**: Apple's documentation, design guidelines, sample code, App Store Connect Help and WWDC sessions in one
  search, or one of them alone
- 🗺️ **Docs map**: find any page by its title, even a method or property name, without a network request
- 📚 **Documentation pages**: Swift and Objective-C APIs, articles, tutorials and web-service references as Markdown
- 🎨 **Human Interface Guidelines**: every HIG page, searchable and readable
- 🏪 **App Store Connect Help**: product page fields, review, TestFlight, pricing
- 🔧 **Framework symbols**: browse a framework's classes, structs, protocols and members by wildcard
- 🔗 **API relationships**: related, similar and referenced APIs, and replacements for deprecated ones
- 📊 **Platform compatibility**: the version that introduced and deprecated an API on each platform
- 📋 **Technology catalog**: every Apple framework and technology by category, beta ones marked
- 📰 **Documentation updates**: release notes, framework updates and WWDC "What's new" pages
- 🎯 **Technology overviews**: Apple's guides to app design, games, AI and machine learning, data and more
- 💻 **Sample code**: Apple's sample projects with their summaries and Download links
- 🎥 **WWDC library**: 1,700 sessions from 2014 to 2026 with transcripts, timed code examples, resources and related
  sessions, offline

## 🚀 Quick Start

Requirements: Node.js 22 (22.22.2 or later), 24 (24.15 or later) or 26 and later, as jsdom 30 needs.

```bash
# Claude Code
claude mcp add apple-docs -- npx -y apple-docs-2.0-mcp
```

## 📦 Installation

<details>
<summary><strong>🤖 Claude Desktop</strong></summary>

Add to your Claude Desktop configuration:

**macOS**: `~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`
**Windows**: `%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json`

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apple-docs": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "apple-docs-2.0-mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```

Restart Claude Desktop.

</details>

<details>
<summary><strong>📱 Claude Code</strong></summary>

```bash
claude mcp add apple-docs -- npx -y apple-docs-2.0-mcp
```

[📖 Claude Code MCP docs](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/mcp)

</details>

<details>
<summary><strong>🖱️ Cursor</strong></summary>

Add to `~/.cursor/mcp.json`:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apple-docs": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "apple-docs-2.0-mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```

[📖 Cursor MCP docs](https://docs.cursor.com/context/mcp)

</details>

<details>
<summary><strong>🔷 VS Code</strong></summary>

Add to `.mcp.json` at the root of your workspace, VS Code's portable format:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apple-docs": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "apple-docs-2.0-mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```

[📖 VS Code MCP docs](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/chat/mcp-servers)

</details>

<details>
<summary><strong>⚡ Zed</strong></summary>

Add to your Zed `settings.json`:

```json
{
  "context_servers": {
    "apple-docs": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "apple-docs-2.0-mcp"],
      "env": {}
    }
  }
}
```

[📖 Zed MCP docs](https://zed.dev/docs/ai/mcp)

</details>

## 💬 Usage Examples

### 🔍 Search
```
"Search for SwiftUI animations"
"Find withAnimation API documentation"
"Search the Human Interface Guidelines for tab bars"
"Search App Store Connect Help for TestFlight external testers"
"Find sample code for Core Data"
```

### 🗺️ Docs Map
```
"Find the page for accessibilityInputLabels"
"Which SwiftUI pages have gauge in their title?"
"Find the App Store Connect API endpoint to create an auto-renewable subscription"
```

### 📚 Documentation Access
```
"Get detailed information about the SwiftUI framework"
"Show me withAnimation API with related APIs"
"Show me NSManagedObjectContext documentation"
"Read the Human Interface Guidelines page on tab bars"
"Show the steps of the SwiftUI tutorial"
```

### 🔧 Framework Exploration
```
"Show me SwiftUI views"
"List all UIKit delegate protocols"
"Get WeatherKit API hierarchy"
"Explore Core ML model loading APIs"
```

### 🔗 API Discovery
```
"Find APIs related to UIViewController"
"Discover alternatives to UIAlertView"
"Get all references from SwiftData documentation"
"Get platform compatibility for SwiftData"
```

### 📋 Technologies, Updates and Overviews
```
"What machine learning frameworks are available?"
"Which technologies are in beta?"
"What's new in SwiftUI?"
"Show me release notes for Xcode"
"Get data management technology overviews"
```

### 💻 Sample Code
```
"Show SwiftUI sample code projects"
"Find sample code for machine learning"
"Get the Food Truck sample"
```

### 🎥 WWDC
```
"Search WWDC videos about SwiftUI"
"Find WWDC sessions on machine learning"
"Show me WWDC 2026 videos"
"Search WWDC transcripts for async/await"
"Show me the transcript for WWDC23 Meet SwiftData"
"Get code examples from WWDC sessions that use SwiftData"
"Find sessions related to WWDC23 Meet SwiftData"
"List all WWDC topics"
```

## 🛠️ Available Tools

| Tool | Returns |
|------|---------|
| `search_apple_docs` | Apple's search results as links, each with its title, framework, type and one-line summary, grouped into documentation, design, sample code, App Store Connect Help and WWDC sessions |
| `search_docs_map` 🆕 | The pages whose title contains the text, in any case, shortest titles first and optionally within given technologies, each with its kind, technology and link |
| `get_apple_doc_content` | One documentation page as Markdown, rendered from its JSON: summary, declaration, overview, code, Topics with each member's declaration and summary, Relationships, See Also and availability; a web-service endpoint with its URL, parameters, body and responses; a tutorial with each step's code and its project files; a sample's Download; an App Store Connect Help article |
| `search_framework_symbols` | The symb