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Connect Codex to Apple Contacts

Yes, Codex can look people up in your Apple Contacts. Pomeroy connects Codex to Apple Contacts on your Mac, so it can find a phone number, an email address, or a postal address when you ask. Pomeroy never creates, edits, or deletes a contact.

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What can you ask Codex to do in Apple Contacts?

  • “What is Priya’s mobile number?”
  • “What’s Sam’s home address?”
  • “Who do I know at Acme?”
  • “Find the number for the dentist.”
  • “What’s my accountant’s email address?”
  • “Do I have a work email for Alex?”

What Codex can do in Apple Contacts

  • Search by name, organisation, email address, or part of a phone number.
  • Read back the details of the people it finds.

What Pomeroy will not do in Apple Contacts

  • Create a contact.
  • Edit a contact. Never, not even when asked.
  • Delete a contact.

How to connect codex to apple contacts

Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install Codex first if it is not there yet.

  1. 1

    Download Pomeroy and switch on Apple Contacts.

    Open the download, drag Pomeroy into Applications, and open it. Pomeroy opens a setup window listing every app it can connect. macOS asks whether Pomeroy may access your contacts. The prompt names Pomeroy, and nothing is requested until you flip the toggle.

  2. 2

    Press Set up beside Codex.

    Pomeroy runs Codex's own codex mcp add command, which writes to Codex's configuration file. The CLI, the IDE extension and the ChatGPT desktop app all read that one file, so you set up once. If the codex command is not where Pomeroy can find it, Pomeroy adds the entry to the file itself.

  3. 3

    Check Codex.

    Run codex mcp list in the Terminal and pomeroy is listed. In the ChatGPT app, Settings › MCP servers shows it. Quit Codex and open it again.

  4. 4

    Ask Codex something.

    Try “What is Priya’s mobile number?” and a real answer comes back.

The configuration, in full

Set up writes it for you. The documentation has the exact text, where it goes, and how to check it worked.

Can Codex see my Apple Contacts?

Yes. Once you switch Contacts on in Pomeroy, Codex can search your contacts by name, organisation, email address, or a fragment of a phone number, and read back what it finds.

Can Codex change my contacts?

No, never. Pomeroy has no action for creating, editing, or deleting a contact, so it cannot happen by accident or on request. Your address book is read, never written.

Is it safe to connect Codex to Apple Contacts?

Pomeroy looks contacts up on your Mac and sends nothing to a Pomeroy server. What Codex reads becomes part of your conversation, the same as text you paste in. Contacts starts switched off, and you can switch it off again at any time. Pomeroy is an independent app, not made by Anthropic.

Codex does not show Pomeroy's tools.

Quit Codex completely and open it again; it reads its configuration when it starts. Then press Set up again in Pomeroy, under Settings › Assistants: every way Pomeroy sets an assistant up is safe to run twice. Pomeroy's menu bar shows whether Codex is connected right now.

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