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Notes from building Pomeroy
How the product is put together, and why. Written by the person who built it. For the evergreen how-to writing, see the guides.
30 September 2026
Terminal AI assistants that read Mail and Calendar
Pick the terminal agent you already use: all seven here can read Mail and Calendar through Pomeroy. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI and OpenCode set up in one click; goose and Warp take a pasted configuration.
28 September 2026
How do I connect Claude to my Mac apps?
It depends on how much of the setup you want to do yourself. Macuse and Pomeroy do it all from the app, iMCP writes the file from a menu, LMCP's main route is a Terminal script, and apple-mcp is archived.
28 September 2026
Can Claude read my Apple Notes?
Yes, once you switch Notes on in Pomeroy. Claude can list your notes by name, read any one in full, and start a new note, but it never edits, moves, or deletes a note you already have.
26 September 2026
What to check before an AI reads your iMessages
Five questions decide it, and the first matters most: can the tool send a message as you? Macuse, LMCP and apple-mcp can; iMCP and Pomeroy only read, and Pomeroy never asks for Full Disk Access.
16 September 2026
What to check before an AI reads your Apple Mail
Six questions decide it, and the first one settles most of it: can the tool send mail as you? Macuse and LMCP can, Pomeroy cannot, and iMCP has no Mail service at all.
14 September 2026
Connect Claude to Apple Mail and Notes for free
LMCP is free with no limit and covers Mail, Calendar and Notes; iMCP is free and open source but has neither Mail nor Notes. Macuse and Pomeroy have free allowances that run out, and apple-mcp is archived.
14 September 2026
Which Apple apps can Claude connect to on a Mac?
Mail, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Contacts, Messages, Maps, Shortcuts and Weather, each a separate switch that starts off. What Claude can do in each one, and what none of them allow.
12 September 2026
Which AI assistants can read Mail and Calendar?
One question decides it: does the assistant run on your Mac, or in someone else's cloud. Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Raycast can; claude.ai and ChatGPT on the web cannot.
11 September 2026
Best MCP server for Apple Notes and Calendar
If you need both apps, it is LMCP, Pomeroy or Macuse, in that order by price, depending on whether you want it able to send. iMCP is free but has no Notes service at all.
7 September 2026
Pomeroy 1.0: connect any AI assistant to your Mac
Pomeroy 1.0 connects any of 24 AI assistants to Mail, Calendar, Messages and seven more Apple apps. What is new, and what it still deliberately refuses to do.
7 September 2026
Which is the best MCP server for Apple apps?
There is no single best one. It comes down to whether you want the assistant able to send as you. An honest map of iMCP, Macuse, LMCP, apple-mcp and Pomeroy.
7 September 2026
Is it safe to let Claude read your iMessages?
Yes, once you connect Messages through Pomeroy. Claude can search and read your message history, but cannot send a reply, and never asks for Full Disk Access.
3 September 2026
Can Claude read my Apple Mail?
Yes, once you connect Mail through Pomeroy. Claude can list your mailboxes and read and search your mail, but cannot send, reply, delete, or move a message.
How these posts are written
A post carries a date and then stays as it was written. When a fact moves underneath it (a price, a permission, the list of assistants Pomeroy sets itself up in), the pages kept true are the documentation and the guides, not an old post quietly edited after the fact. Where a post and the documentation disagree, believe the documentation and treat the post as a record of what was true that week.
Anything said here about another project is read off one checked list rather than from memory, and the comparisons print the date it was checked, 3 September 2026 at the time of writing. A claim that could not be verified against the other project’s own site or repository does not go in at all.
Elsewhere on the site
The guides take one job per page and run through it end to end. The changelog lists every released version with the date it shipped. The FAQ answers the questions people ask before installing anything: what an assistant can read, what it can send, and what Pomeroy refuses to do whoever asks. For new posts as they land, the feed is at /feed.xml.