HIG Doctor runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 137 installs a week from npm. Last commit 4 Sep 2026.
Apple Human Interface Guidelines search, lookup, and project audits for AI coding agents.
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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 mcp add hig-doctor -- npx -y hig-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"hig-doctor": {
"args": [
"-y",
"hig-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}[mcp_servers.hig-doctor]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "hig-mcp"]{
"mcpServers": {
"hig-doctor": {
"args": [
"-y",
"hig-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"hig-doctor": {
"args": [
"-y",
"hig-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}This one needs environment variables set before it will start:
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.).
The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.
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HIG Doctor — questions
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