Agents

Reference and audit agents

Agents run in isolated context. Use reference agents for focused API lookups and the auditor for code review findings.

Apple Text ships 5 agents: 4 domain reference agents and 1 code auditor.

Domain Reference Agents

Domain reference agents bundle related skills and answer specific questions in isolated context. The router skill and /apple-text:ask command launch these automatically when a reference lookup is needed.

editor-reference

Look up editor feature APIs — Writing Tools, text interaction, text input, undo/redo, find/replace, pasteboard, spelling, drag-and-drop, accessibility, and Dynamic Type.

Best for

• specific API lookups and reference questions
• implementation guidance for a known subsystem
• getting a focused answer without flooding the main conversation

You get

• a focused answer extracted from the full reference
• exact API signatures and code examples
• isolated context that keeps the main conversation clean

platform-reference

Look up SwiftUI bridging, UIViewRepresentable wrappers, TextEditor iOS 26+, AppKit vs UIKit differences, TextKit 1 vs 2 selection, Core Text, Foundation text utilities, and parsing.

Best for

• specific API lookups and reference questions
• implementation guidance for a known subsystem
• getting a focused answer without flooding the main conversation

You get

• a focused answer extracted from the full reference
• exact API signatures and code examples
• isolated context that keeps the main conversation clean

rich-text-reference

Look up attributed string APIs, text formatting attributes, colors, Markdown rendering, text attachments, line breaking, and bidirectional text.

Best for

• specific API lookups and reference questions
• implementation guidance for a known subsystem
• getting a focused answer without flooding the main conversation

You get

• a focused answer extracted from the full reference
• exact API signatures and code examples
• isolated context that keeps the main conversation clean

textkit-reference

Look up TextKit 1/2 APIs, layout mechanics, viewport rendering, text measurement, exclusion paths, fallback triggers, and text storage patterns.

Best for

• specific API lookups and reference questions
• implementation guidance for a known subsystem
• getting a focused answer without flooding the main conversation

You get

• a focused answer extracted from the full reference
• exact API signatures and code examples
• isolated context that keeps the main conversation clean

Code Audit Agents

textkit-auditor

Use this agent when the user mentions TextKit review, text view code review, or asks to scan for TextKit anti-patterns. Automatically scans Swift/Objective-C code for TextKit issues — detects TextKit 1 fallback triggers, deprecated glyph APIs, missing editing lifecycle calls, unsafe text storage patterns, and Writing Tools compatibility problems.

Best for

• findings-first reviews of editor code
• scanning a codebase for TextKit anti-patterns
• focused audits where file references and fix directions matter

You get

• findings grouped by severity
• file references for each issue
• one concrete fix direction per finding

Audit focus

• TextKit 1 fallback triggers
• deprecated glyph and layout APIs
• missing editing lifecycle calls
• unsafe text storage patterns
• Writing Tools compatibility problems

Default entry point

apple-text-audit Natural-language audit entry point for most review requests.

Skills Browse the rest of the catalog when the work is not a code scan.

If the user just asked for a review in natural language, start with apple-text-audit. Reach for the agent page when you want a direct tool handoff instead.