HIG Doctor MCP Server

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HIG Doctor runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 85 installs a week from npm. Last commit 30 Oct 2026.

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

Installs per day peak 183 · avg 31 · +12% w/w

a month agotoday

Installs / week

npm · hig-mcp

148

Stars

4 open issues

30 Oct 2026

Last commit

2 releases in 90 days

MIT

License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check HIG Doctor every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add hig-doctor -- npx -y hig-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hig-doctor": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "hig-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.hig-doctor]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "hig-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hig-doctor": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "hig-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "hig-doctor": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "hig-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: 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).

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HIG Doctor — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for HIG Doctor?

HIG Doctor runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package hig-mcp was installed 85 times last week.

How do I connect HIG Doctor?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls hig-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use HIG Doctor?

The npm package hig-mcp was installed 85 times in the last week. Week over week that is +12%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is HIG Doctor open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 148 stars on GitHub and 4 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.