HIG Doctor MCP Server

Name: HIG Doctor MCP Server
Author: io.github.raintree-technology

io.github.raintree-technology/hig-doctor

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What is the HIG Doctor MCP server?

Apple Human Interface Guidelines search, lookup, and project audits for AI coding agents.

How to install HIG Doctor

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

HIG_SKILLS_DIR
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.

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

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

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

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

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add hig-doctor --env HIG_SKILLS_DIR=<YOUR_HIG_SKILLS_DIR> -- npx -y hig-mcp

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Python

MIT

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