Editing AppleScript (section)

==={{anchor|Scripting Additions}}Scripting Additions (OSAX)===
Plug-ins for AppleScript developed by Apple or third parties.<ref name="OSAX">{{cite web |url=https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn1164/_index.html |title=Technical Note TN1164: Scripting Additions for Mac OS X |website=developer.apple.com |access-date=May 8, 2017}}</ref> They are designed to extend the built-in command set, expanding AppleScript's features and making it somewhat less dependent on functionality provided by applications. macOS includes a collection of scripting additions referred to as Standard Additions (''StandardAdditions.osax'') that adds a set of commands and classes that are not part of AppleScript's core features, including user interaction dialogs, reading and writing files, file system commands, date functions, and text and mathematical operations; without this OSAX, AppleScript would have no capacity to perform many basic actions not directly provided by an application.