appkit-app-inspector
Use when learning how a running macOS app is built by inspecting its live view tree with uitool — reading real NSView subclasses, frames, fonts, CALayer facts, and Auto Layout constraints from another process and translating them into your own AppKit code. Covers the two injection postures (cooperative on a stock Mac vs unrestricted dev-box), the doctor/signing precondition gate, the filter→drill query loop, and turning runtime findings into a clean public-API recipe.
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Files
- skills/appkit-app-inspector/SKILL.md
- skills/appkit-app-inspector/references/cli-contract.md
- skills/appkit-app-inspector/references/doctor-and-dev-box.md
- skills/appkit-app-inspector/references/failure-signatures.md
- skills/appkit-app-inspector/references/filter-drill-and-selectors.md
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