sourcekitten ☆

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Description:
Framework and command-line tool for interacting with SourceKit

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: swift sourcekit developer-tools cli xcode

Install: brew install sourcekitten

About:
SourceKitten is a framework and command-line tool that provides a Swift wrapper around SourceKit, Apple's low-level API for Swift and C/C++/Objective-C code. It enables developers to extract structured information like syntax trees, documentation, and symbol references from source code. Its main value is simplifying the creation of developer tools that need deep code intelligence.

Key Features:

Swift wrapper for SourceKit
Command-line interface for querying source info
Extracts syntax structure and documentation
Generates Clang module headers

Use Cases:

Building custom Swift linters or formatters
Generating documentation tools
IDE and editor plugin development for Swift

Alternatives:

SwiftSyntax – SwiftSyntax provides a native Swift syntax tree, while SourceKitten wraps the lower-level SourceKit for broader code intelligence features.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 26, 2025 12:46am		1	VERSION_BUMP	0f8dc1a6
Sep 11, 2025 5:35am		0	VERSION_BUMP	07e1322a