Apple Docs Mcp

What This Skill Does

The Apple Docs MCP skill provides a seamless bridge between your OpenClaw AI agent and the official Apple Developer Documentation. By leveraging the Model Context Protocol (MCP), this skill allows your agent to fetch real-time, accurate, and up-to-date information regarding Apple's software frameworks, APIs, and programming languages directly from the source. It eliminates the need to manually browse the developer website or rely on outdated training data, ensuring that your coding assistance remains precise for Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, and other essential Apple technologies.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, use the OpenClaw CLI. Run the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/janhcla/apple-docs-mcp

Once installed, ensure your mcp.json configuration is updated to include the server definition:

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "apple-docs": {
        "command": "npx",
        "args": ["-y", "@kimsungwhee/apple-docs-mcp"]
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart your agent to initialize the connection.

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS developers. It is particularly useful for verifying the latest method signatures for new APIs, understanding complex lifecycle behaviors in SwiftUI, or looking up deprecated functions during code migration. It serves as a personal reference librarian that works within your IDE or terminal environment.

Example Prompts

1. "Look up the latest implementation details for the View protocol in SwiftUI and explain how to use the onAppear modifier correctly."
2. "Can you check the current documentation for CoreData and explain the differences between persistent container types in iOS 17?"
3. "Search Apple docs for how to properly implement WindowGroup in a visionOS app and provide a concise code snippet."

Tips & Limitations

For the best results, always be specific with your framework versions in your prompts. The skill is limited by the availability of content in the public Apple Developer repository. While it excels at technical reference, it cannot execute code for you; it is strictly a data-retrieval and synthesis tool. If you encounter connectivity issues, ensure your environment allows execution via npx and that your network permits access to Apple's documentation endpoints.