Automating Pages (JXA-first, AppleScript discovery)

Relationship to the macOS automation skill

• Standalone for Pages, aligned with automating-mac-apps patterns.
• Use automating-mac-apps for permissions, shell, and UI scripting guidance.
• PyXA Installation: To use PyXA examples in this skill, see the installation instructions in automating-mac-apps skill (PyXA Installation section).

Core framing

• Pages dictionary is AppleScript-first; discover there.
• JXA provides the logic and data handling.
• Objects are specifiers: References to Pages elements that require methods for reads (e.g., doc.body.text()) and assignments for writes (e.g., doc.body.text = 'new text').

Example: Create Document

const pages = Application('Pages');
const doc = pages.Document({templateName: 'Blank'});
pages.documents.push(doc);
doc.body.text = "Hello World";