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Apple API Researcher — Project Management agent for Claude Code

Project Management community

Looks up exact, current API signatures and behavior for the frameworks and packages this project uses (TextKit 2, PDFKit, QuickLook, FSEvents, NSOutlineView, SwiftUI on macOS 26, GRDB, swift-markdown.

How to install Apple API Researcher

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/colinc86-gloss-apple-api-researcher.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/colinc86/gloss/HEAD/.claude/agents/apple-api-researcher.md -o ~/.claude/agents/colinc86-gloss-apple-api-researcher.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Apple API Researcher does

name: apple-api-researcher description: Looks up exact, current API signatures and behavior for the frameworks and packages this project uses (TextKit 2, PDFKit, QuickLook, FSEvents, NSOutlineView, SwiftUI on macOS 26, GRDB, swift-markdown, SwiftTreeSitter, the MCP Swift SDK) from developer.apple.com and the packages' GitHub sources. Use before writing code against an API whose signature you are not certain of, instead of guessing. model: sonnet tools: WebFetch, WebSearch, Read, Grep, Glob,

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