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HIG Doctor MCP

An open-source MCP server and CLI that exposes Apple Human Interface Guidelines as agent skills. It allows AI coding agents to list skills, look up specific design topics, and run project audits to detect UI/UX issues across various frameworks like SwiftUI, React, and Flutter.

Package and access

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HIG Doctor MCP logo, by Raintree TechnologyCommunity listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by Raintree Technology
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Checks and signals

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  • Popularity 148 GitHub stars

What you can do with it

  • List every HIG skill with descriptions and reference topics
  • Fetch a HIG skill or specific topic as Markdown for an agent
  • Run a project audit with severity counts and Markdown output
  • Explain individual findings without presenting generated advice as canonical HIG

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.2.3MIT
Last repository push
Latest release
hig-doctor-v2.0.3
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Packages and installation

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hig-mcp 0.2.3

npm
hig-mcp package definition
{
  "version": "0.2.3",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "hig-mcp",
  "registryType": "npm",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "HIG_SKILLS_DIR",
      "format": "filepath",
      "description": "Optional override for the skills directory. The published package bundles the HIG skills corpus, so this is only needed to point the server at a different or newer local copy."
    }
  ]
}

Tools

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Maintenance history

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  • · backfill · recorded · Pre-expansion baseline; unobserved rich metadata remains unknown

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hig-doctor-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "hig-mcp@0.2.3"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HIG_SKILLS_DIR": "<YOUR_HIG_SKILLS_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hig-doctor-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "hig-mcp@0.2.3"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HIG_SKILLS_DIR": "<YOUR_HIG_SKILLS_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "hig-doctor-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "hig-mcp@0.2.3"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HIG_SKILLS_DIR": "<YOUR_HIG_SKILLS_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hig-doctor-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "hig-mcp@0.2.3"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HIG_SKILLS_DIR": "<YOUR_HIG_SKILLS_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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