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Overview
Swift Package Index (SPI) is the community-built search engine and metadata index for Swift packages — package discovery, compatibility checking, and documentation hosting. Founded 2020 by Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt.
Recent Developments
- 2026-06-23: Joined apple — founders became Apple employees; platform remains open source with no immediate workflow changes (2026-06-23-apple-swift-package-index-acquisition, 2026-06-23-swift-package-index-official-blog)
- Scale: 10,000+ packages indexed; 350,000+ monthly compatibility builds
- Roadmap: package signing, identity verification, registry model beyond GitHub URLs, xcode in-IDE discovery