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Apple Docs Index

  • 359 installs
  • 297 repo stars
  • Updated August 4, 2026
  • vabole/apple-skills

apple-docs-index is a vabole apple-skills agent skill that indexes Apple developer documentation for developers who need to browse framework APIs and find doc paths for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS features.

About

apple-docs-index is part of the vabole/apple-skills plugin (30 skills total) and serves as the entry point for local Apple framework documentation indexes. It lists nine primary indexes including SwiftUI (907KB overview), UIKit (1.8MB overview), XCTest (55KB), XCUIAutomation (58KB), Core Animation (80KB), HealthKit (312KB), Combine (153KB), SwiftData (86KB), and Observation (3KB). Developers use it to browse available APIs, find paths to specific documentation, and decide whether to grep installed skill markdown or fetch from the sosumi.ai mirror. Reach for this skill when implementing SwiftUI views, UIKit controllers, HealthKit data, Combine pipelines, or XCTest suites and you need fast API discovery without loading full doc sets into context.

  • Framework and API index
  • Platform doc deep links
  • SwiftUI and UIKit pointers
  • Sample and guide routing
  • Faster official-doc lookup

Apple Docs Index by the numbers

  • 359 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • +7 installs in the week ending Jul 27, 2026 (Skillselion tracking)
  • Ranked #425 of 1,879 Documentation skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
npx skills add https://github.com/vabole/apple-skills --skill apple-docs-index

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Last updatedAugust 4, 2026
Repositoryvabole/apple-skills

Where do I find SwiftUI API documentation paths?

Navigate Apple platform documentation quickly—framework indexes, API references, and guides—while implementing iOS, macOS, watchOS, or tvOS features.

Who is it for?

iOS and macOS developers using Claude Code or Codex who need fast local navigation of Apple framework docs before implementation.

Skip if: Android or cross-platform projects with no Apple SDK work, or teams that already have full offline doc mirrors open in the IDE.

When should I use this skill?

User asks what APIs exist in a framework, needs Apple doc paths, or is deciding which vabole apple-skills reference file to load.

What you get

Framework index paths, API topic listings, and fetch targets for detailed Apple documentation pages.

By the numbers

  • Part of vabole/apple-skills with 30 skills in the repository
  • Lists 9 framework documentation indexes with local file sizes
  • SwiftUI index 907KB; UIKit overview 1.8MB

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

Apple Documentation Index

This skill provides indexes of Apple framework documentation. Use these to:

  • Browse available APIs in a framework
  • Find the path to specific documentation
  • Decide what detailed docs to download

Available Indexes

FrameworkFileSizeTopics
SwiftUI../swiftui/swiftui-overview.md907KBViews, modifiers, navigation, state
XCTestxctest-index.md55KBTesting, assertions, expectations
XCUIAutomationxcuiautomation-index.md58KBUI testing, elements, queries
UIKit../uikit/uikit-overview.md1.8MBViews, controllers, controls, scenes
Core Animation../core-animation/core-animation-index.md80KBCALayer, CAAnimation, CATransaction, layer subclasses
HealthKithealthkit-index.md312KBHealth data, workouts, records
Combinecombine-index.md153KBPublishers, subscribers, operators
SwiftDataswiftdata-index.md86KBModels, containers, queries
Observationobservation-index.md3KB@Observable macro

How to Use

1. Browse an Index

# See what's in HealthKit
cat healthkit-index.md | head -100

# Search for specific topic
grep -i "workout" healthkit-index.md
grep -i "navigation" ../swiftui/swiftui-overview.md

2. Find Documentation Paths

Index files list all available documentation pages. Each entry shows the path:

- [HKWorkout](/documentation/healthkit/hkworkout)
- [NavigationStack](/documentation/swiftui/navigationstack)

3. Fetch More Detailed Docs

1. Check whether the detailed page is already available in one of your installed Apple skills. 2. Use skill names, descriptions, or SKILL.md frontmatter to find likely skill directories, then grep their local .md files before fetching. This is faster and uses less context than fetching new docs from the internet. 3. If no installed skill has the page, use the same path with the sosumi.ai Markdown mirror.

For example, /documentation/healthkit/hkworkout maps to https://sosumi.ai/documentation/healthkit/hkworkout.

4. Browse Missing Framework Indexes

If the local indexes don't include the framework you need, use the framework's sosumi.ai index:

https://sosumi.ai/documentation/{framework}

For example, https://sosumi.ai/documentation/foundation provides a Markdown index you can search for Foundation paths.

If the Markdown mirror is unavailable and your environment can parse JSON, Apple's public DocC index endpoint is:

https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/data/index/{framework}

The useful path tree is under interfaceLanguages.swift[0].children.

Related skills

How it compares

Start here before loading framework-specific apple-skills when you only need API discovery and doc paths.

FAQ

Which frameworks does apple-docs-index cover?

apple-docs-index lists local indexes for SwiftUI, UIKit, Core Animation, XCTest, XCUIAutomation, HealthKit, Combine, SwiftData, and Observation, with file sizes and topic summaries per framework.

How should developers fetch missing Apple docs?

apple-docs-index instructs grepping installed apple-skills markdown first, then using the same path on the sosumi.ai Markdown mirror when no local skill contains the needed page.

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