What is apple-dash-docsets?

A workflow for managing Dash documentation sets and cheatsheets on macOS. Dash is an app that lets developers search local programming documentation.

Searching Dash, installing documentation sets, generating guidance, and choosing fallback methods for accessing Apple or other developer documentation.

It clarifies how to search for documentation, install missing sets, or prepare alternatives when a set is unavailable.

apple-dash-docsets — Skill for Codex by Syniox5334/apple-dev-skills

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add Syniox5334/apple-dev-skills --skill apple-dash-docsets

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Syniox5334/apple-dev-skills

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,208 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00041	$0.01208
Opus 5.5	$0.00016	$0.00483
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00008	$0.00242
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00121

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 61833316f651, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-dash-docsets scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/customization_config.py, scripts/dash_api_probe.py, scripts/dash_catalog_match.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/apple-dash-docsets/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Dash Docsets

Purpose

Manage Dash docsets and cheatsheets on macOS with one top-level entry point. scripts/run_workflow.py is the authoritative runtime path for stage selection, fallback order, source priority, approval gating, and structured generation guidance; it does not replace the agent's own Dash access methods.

When To Use

Use this skill for Dash search and discovery requests.
Use this skill for Dash installation requests after search has identified a missing docset.
Use this skill for Dash generation guidance when installation cannot complete.
Use this skill when the user needs the exact fallback path between agent-side Dash MCP usage, local HTTP, and URL or Service integration.
Recommend apple-xcode-workflow when the user needs Apple or Swift execution, diagnostics, build or test work, or Apple docs reasoning outside Dash management.
Recommend apple-swift-package-bootstrap when the user is starting a brand new Swift package rather than managing Dash content.

Single-Path Workflow

Classify the request into one stage:
- search
- install
- generate
If no stage is explicit, start at search.
Run scripts/run_workflow.py with the selected stage:
- search: applies configured fallback order and returns a structured access-path decision
- install: applies configured source priority and approval gating
- generate: returns structured automation-first guidance
If the selected stage cannot complete, hand off forward through references/stage-handoff-contract.md:
- search -> install
- install -> generate
Return one status, one path_type, and one output contract for the stage that ran.

Inputs

stage: search, install, or generate
query: required for search
docset_identifiers: optional for search; use installed identifiers only
docset_request: required for install and generate
approval: required before side-effectful install actions
Defaults:
- runtime entrypoint: python3 scripts/run_workflow.py
- search access order is mcp -> http -> url-service
- install source priority is built-in,user-contributed,cheatsheet
- default search result limit is 20
- default search snippets setting is true

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

Files

What ships with it

19 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 121 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 61833316f651

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apple-dash-docsets is a skill published in the GitHub repository Syniox5334/apple-dev-skills (5 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,208 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

Learning and teaching agent-skills apple-development apple-docs apple-docs-mcp codex codex-app

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