Deep dive into all types and APIs referenced in a documentation page. Resolves all mentioned types, methods, and properties to understand dependencies. Use when: analyzing complex APIs, understanding type requirements, exploring API ecosystems.
AI agents call resolve_references_batch to retrieve information from Apple Docs MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and resolves documentation references — fetching information about types, methods, and properties from Apple's developer documentation. It performs read-only lookups with no side effects, modifications, or destructive actions. The description emphasizes 'understanding' and 'analyzing', confirming purely informational intent.
From the tool's definition Resolves all mentioned types, methods, and properties to understand dependencies
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access resolve_references_batch gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Apple Docs MCP, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for resolve_references_batch:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"resolve_references_batch": {}
}
}resolve_references_batch is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Deep dive into all types and APIs referenced in a documentation page. Resolves all mentioned types, methods, and properties to understand dependencies. Use when: analyzing complex APIs, understanding type requirements, exploring API ecosystems. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apple Docs MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Apple Docs MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for resolve_references_batch: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apple Docs MCP. Nothing to install.
resolve_references_batch is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the resolve_references_batch rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for resolve_references_batch. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
resolve_references_batch is provided by the Apple Docs MCP server (kimsungwhee/apple-docs-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Apple Docs MCP, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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