Apple Documentation Research

Techniques for researching Apple frameworks, APIs, and WWDC sessions. Covers Chrome auto-capture for transcripts and sosumi.ai for documentation.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you're:

• Researching Apple frameworks or APIs (WidgetKit, SwiftUI, etc.)
• Need full WWDC session transcripts with code samples
• Looking for Apple Developer documentation
• Want to extract code examples from WWDC presentations
• Building comprehensive skills based on Apple technologies

Do NOT use for:

• Third-party framework documentation
• General web research
• Basic Swift language questions

Example Prompts

Questions you can ask Claude that will draw from this skill:

• "I need to research the new WidgetKit APIs from WWDC 2025."
• "How do I get the full transcript from a WWDC session?"
• "Where can I find Apple documentation in markdown format?"
• "I want to build a skill based on WWDC sessions. How do I extract the content?"

What's Covered

WWDC Session Transcripts

• Chrome auto-capture technique
• Apple Developer video page structure
• Full verbatim transcripts with timestamps
• Code sample extraction

Apple Documentation via sosumi.ai

• Markdown-formatted documentation
• Cleaner output than developer.apple.com
• URL patterns

Time Savings

• Manual transcription: 3-4 hours per session
• Auto-capture: 2-5 minutes per session

Key Pattern

WWDC Transcript via Chrome

Apple Developer video pages contain complete transcripts that Chrome auto-captures.

1. Navigate to WWDC session:

   https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/278/

2. Chrome saves to session directory:

   ~/Library/Caches/superpowers/browser/YYYY-MM-DD/session-XXXXX/001-navigate.md

3. Transcript includes:

   • Full spoken content with timestamps (e.g., [0:07], [1:23])
   • Chapter markers
   • Resource links
   • Descriptions of code shown on screen

Apple Documentation via sosumi.ai

# Instead of:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/widgetkit

# Use:
https://sosumi.ai/documentation/widgetkit

Benefits:

• Cleaner markdown output
• Easier to parse and reference
• Same content, better format

Documentation Scope

This page documents the axiom-apple-docs-research skill—research techniques Claude uses when you need to investigate Apple frameworks, APIs, or WWDC sessions.

For writing skills from research: See the superpowers:writing-skills skill for creating skills from documentation.

Related

• extensions-widgets — Widget development patterns
• swiftui-26-ref — iOS 26 SwiftUI features from WWDC 2025

Resources

WWDC: All sessions at developer.apple.com/videos/

Docs: sosumi.ai/documentation