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
Local package with source-attributed installation metadata. Koskamo does not execute packages during review.
Checks and signals
Each line is separate evidence, not a trust score.
- 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
- Last repository push
- Latest release
- hig-doctor-v2.0.3
- Maintenance checked
Packages and installation
Source-provided package data. Koskamo has not executed or live-probed this package.
hig-mcp 0.2.3
{
"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
Reported by the attributed source; not independently observed by Koskamo.
Maintenance history
Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.
- · repository · passed · metadata changed · updated
- · backfill · recorded · Pre-expansion baseline; unobserved rich metadata remains unknown
Connect from your client
Each snippet configures the same source-provided package; replace placeholders before use.
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{
"mcpServers": {
"hig-doctor-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"hig-mcp@0.2.3"
],
"env": {
"HIG_SKILLS_DIR": "<YOUR_HIG_SKILLS_DIR>"
}
}
}
}Cline
{
"mcpServers": {
"hig-doctor-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"hig-mcp@0.2.3"
],
"env": {
"HIG_SKILLS_DIR": "<YOUR_HIG_SKILLS_DIR>"
}
}
}
}VS Code
{
"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
{
"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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