Lets say I use a SDK that has some custom components .ie. Liquid Glass but with neon background (just for fun) . This SDK has comprehensive API Docs . Currently Xcode provides DocumentationSearch mcp tool only for Apple APIs . Is there a way to enhance api search beyond Apple SDKs , for examples seeing the definitions in xcframwork.
If not can Xcode connect to local/hosted mcp-servers . Or do these have to be modified in Claude settings.
Thanks for the post, can you provide more information about what you are trying to accomplish? Guessing to create your own documentation files?
There are many 3rd party solutions for creating documentation out there, Xcode’s built-in documentation viewer and support are primarily tailored to Apple’s own frameworks.
I believe that if your SDK includes HTML documentation stored locally or hosted on a server, you can add a custom entry in Xcode → Preferences → Locations → Documentation to point to your documentation URL. This won’t integrate with Quick Help but will allow you to browse the docs via Xcode’s browser view? But I am not completely positive how to do that in latest versions of Xcode. Any HTML documentation can be browsed using a local browser.
Xcode does not currently expose public APIs to connect to custom MCP (Web Service Discovery) servers for API documentation.
The Claude settings you mentioned are unrelated to Xcode’s documentation capabilities and cannot be used to modify how Xcode indexes or searches third-party APIs.
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XcodeRead - Read files from the project
XcodeWrite - Write files to the project
XcodeUpdate - Edit files with str_replace-style patches
XcodeGlob - Find files by pattern
XcodeGrep - Search file contents
XcodeLS - List directory contents
XcodeMakeDir - Create directories
XcodeRM - Remove files
XcodeMV - Move/rename files
BuildProject - Build the Xcode project
GetBuildLog - Get build output
RunAllTests - Run all tests
RunSomeTests - Run specific tests
GetTestList - List available tests
XcodeListNavigatorIssues - Get Xcode issues/errors
XcodeRefreshCodeIssuesInFile - Get live diagnostics
ExecuteSnippet - Run code in a REPL-like environment
RenderPreview - Render SwiftUI previews as images
DocumentationSearch - Search Apple docs and WWDC videos
XcodeListWindows - List open Xcode windows
The above is a list of MCPTools exposed by Xcode. Im am interested in the DocumentationSearch Tool . Here Xcode is able to search only Apple Docs. Lets say i am using a custom .xcframework or i have added HTML Docs of my framework in xcode. Can i still use the DocumentationSearch tool for third party libraries
