spillwavesolutions/automating-mac-apps-plugin
GitHubautomating-calendar
Automates macOS Calendar via JXA with AppleScript dictionary discovery. Use when asked to "create calendar events", "automate calendar", "JXA calendar scripting", "EventKit automation", or "PyXA calendar automation". Covers events, calendars, recurrence, time zones, batch operations, and EventKit ObjC bridge.
automating-mac-apps
Automates macOS apps via Apple Events using AppleScript (discovery), JXA (legacy), and PyXA (modern Python). Use when asked to "automate Mac apps", "write AppleScript", "JXA scripting", "osascript automation", or "PyXA Python automation". Foundation skill for all macOS app automation.
automating-excel
Automates Microsoft Excel on macOS via JXA with AppleScript dictionary discovery. Use when asked to "automate Excel spreadsheets", "JXA Excel scripting", "Excel macOS automation", or "bulk Excel data operations". Focuses on workbooks, worksheets, ranges, 2D arrays, performance toggles, and VBA escape hatches.
automating-notes
Automates Apple Notes via JXA. Use when asked to "create notes programmatically", "automate Notes app", "JXA notes scripting", or "organize notes with automation". Covers accounts/folders/notes, HTML bodies, queries, moves, and Objective-C/UI fallbacks for Notes.app automation on macOS.
automating-contacts
Automates macOS Contacts via JXA with AppleScript dictionary discovery. Use when asked to "automate contacts", "JXA contacts automation", "macOS address book scripting", "AppleScript contacts", or "Contacts app automation". Covers querying, CRUD, multi-value fields, groups, images, and ObjC bridge fallbacks.
automating-powerpoint
Automates Microsoft PowerPoint via JXA with AppleScript dictionary discovery. Use when asked to "automate PowerPoint presentations", "create slides programmatically", "JXA PowerPoint scripting", or "export PowerPoint to PDF". Covers presentations, slides, shapes, text, tables, export enums, and interop with Excel.
automating-reminders
Automates Apple Reminders using JavaScript for Automation (JXA). Use when asked to "create reminders programmatically", "automate reminder lists", "JXA Reminders scripting", or "manage reminders via automation". Covers list/reminder management, filtering with 'whose' queries, efficient creation via constructors and push operations, and copy-delete patterns for moving items.
automating-numbers
Automates Apple Numbers via JXA with AppleScript dictionary discovery. Use when asked to "automate Numbers spreadsheets", "create spreadsheets programmatically", "JXA Numbers scripting", or "bulk data operations in Numbers". Focuses on sheets, tables, ranges, batch I/O, clipboard shim, and high-performance data workflows.
automating-keynote
Automates Apple Keynote using JXA with AppleScript dictionary discovery. Use when asked to "create Keynote presentations", "automate slide decks", "JXA Keynote scripting", or "generate presentations programmatically". Covers document lifecycle, slides, text, shapes, images, tables, charts, transitions, and UI scripting fallback.
automating-mail
Automates Apple Mail via JXA with AppleScript dictionary discovery. Use when asked to "automate email", "send mail via script", "JXA Mail automation", or "filter email messages". Covers accounts, mailboxes, batch message filtering, composition, attachments, and UI fallback.
web-browser-automation
Comprehensive macOS browser automation using PyXA, Playwright, Selenium, and Puppeteer for desktop web testing, scraping, and workflow automation. Use when asked to "automate web browsers", "Selenium Chrome automation", "Playwright testing", "Puppeteer scraping", or "cross-browser automation". Supports Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc browsers.
automating-messages
Automates macOS Messages (iMessage/SMS) via JXA with reliable service→buddy resolution. Use when asked to "automate iMessage", "send Messages via script", "JXA Messages automation", or "read Messages history". Covers send-bug workarounds, UI scripting for attachments, chat.db forensics, and launchd polling bots.
automating-pages
Automates Apple Pages using JXA with AppleScript dictionary discovery. Use when asked to "automate Pages documents", "create documents programmatically", "JXA Pages scripting", or "export Pages to PDF". Covers documents, templates, text, styles, export, tables, images, and AppleScript bridge fallbacks.
automating-chrome
Automates Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers via JXA with AppleScript dictionary discovery. Use when asked to "automate Chrome tabs", "control browser with JXA", "Chrome AppleScript automation", "Chromium browser scripting", or "browser tab management". Covers windows, tabs, execute(), tunneling patterns, and permissions.
automating-word
Automates Microsoft Word via JXA with AppleScript dictionary discovery. Use when asked to "automate Word documents", "find and replace in Word", "JXA Word scripting", or "create Word documents programmatically". Covers documents, ranges, find/replace, tables, export, and ObjC bridge patterns.
automating-voice-memos
Automates Apple Voice Memos (Mac Catalyst, no dictionary) via JXA using filesystem/SQLite access and System Events UI scripting. Use when asked to "automate Voice Memos", "export voice recordings", "access Voice Memos database", or "transcribe voice memos".