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Swift Academy Podcast — Episode 9, Season 2 Cupertino MCP: Local AI Tooling for Swift Developers How the Cupertino MCP server gives AI agents offline access to 302,000+ pages across 307 frameworks, a technical deep-dive into Model Context Protocol, local-first Swift AI development tooling, and the architecture behind a new generation of AI iOS development tools with Mihaela Mihaljević, Senior iOS Architect. April 19, 2026 🎧 Swift Academy Podcast · Episode 9 — Season 2 · Model Context Protocol • Swift AI • Local Tooling “Giving an AI agent access to your full Apple documentation stack — offline, locally, without rate limits — is not a convenience. It changes the quality of what the agent can reason about. That’s the real unlock of local-first AI tooling.” ...

In this episode, I sit down with Pedro Piñera and Marek Fořt, the brilliant minds behind Tuist, a powerful open-source tool that’s redefining how Swift developers manage and scale Xcode projects. We talk about their journey, the pain points that inspired Tuist, and the technical innovations that make it a top choice for modular, scalable iOS architectures. 💡 Key Topics Covered: The Origins of Tuist • Why Pedro and Marek created Tuist in response to limitations of SPM and XcodeGen. • The story of how they met and turned a shared frustration into a thriving open-source community. • Their long-term vision for Tuist and the future of scalable Swift development. ...