Complete Apple development guidance: Human Interface Guidelines (design) + Technical Documentation for iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS
Complete Apple development guidance: Human Interface Guidelines (design) + Technical Documentation for iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS. The apple hig mcp mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 6 defined tools rather than through you.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
search_human_interface_guidelines — Search Apple HIG with platform filterssearch_technical_documentation — Search Apple API documentationFramework — specific searches (SwiftUI, UIKit, AppKit, etc.)search_unified — Combined design + technical documentation searchCross — references design guidelines with implementation detailsExamples — The Examples tool exposed by this server@modelcontextprotocol/inspector on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
This sits in the knowledge and memory group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Apple Hig MCP's toolset — search_human_interface_guidelines, search_technical_documentation, Framework and 3 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by tmaasen; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_human_interface_guidelines | Search Apple HIG with platform filters |
| search_technical_documentation | Search Apple API documentation |
| Framework | specific searches (SwiftUI, UIKit, AppKit, etc.) |
| search_unified | Combined design + technical documentation search |
| Cross | references design guidelines with implementation details |
| Examples | The Examples tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"apple-hig": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/inspector"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
A knowledge graph your assistant keeps between sessions — entities, relations and observations that persist.
Kill hallucinated APIs — version-accurate, up-to-date library documentation injected straight into context.
Your workspace, on speaking terms with AI — search, read and write Notion pages and databases.
A structured scratchpad for hard problems — stepwise reasoning with revisions, branches and visible logic.
Symbol-level code navigation, refactoring and memory for coding agents — the IDE brain your assistant has been missing.
Chat with your second brain — search, read and write vault notes through the Local REST API.