jpsim/SourceKitten

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

2426 stars · 237 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

SourceKitten is a Swift framework and command line tool that links with sourcekitd.framework to interact with SourceKit. It parses Swift ASTs, extracts comment docs for Swift or Objective-C projects, and provides syntax, structure, index, and code completion data as JSON.

Use cases

• extract documentation comments from Swift or Objective-C code as JSON
• parse the Swift AST and get syntax structure for a file
• generate code completion options for Swift
• index a Swift file and print results as JSON
• run raw SourceKit requests programmatically
• build Swift linting or documentation tools on top of SourceKit

When to choose

• you need programmatic access to SourceKit data for Swift or Objective-C
• you're building developer tools like linters, doc generators, or formatters for Swift
• you want a stable CLI or Swift library wrapping sourcekitd

When to avoid

• you need to parse languages other than Swift or Objective-C
• you want a high-level code formatter rather than raw syntax data
• you're not on macOS or Linux with a Swift toolchain available

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

parser developer-tools cli documentation sdk developer-tools programming-languages documentation parsers cli sourcekit swift-ast code-analysis static-analysis xcode objective-c syntax-tree command-line macos linux swift

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