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Connect GitHub Copilot CLI to Apple Contacts

Yes, GitHub Copilot CLI can look people up in your Apple Contacts. Pomeroy connects GitHub Copilot CLI 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 GitHub Copilot CLI 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 GitHub Copilot CLI 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 github copilot cli to apple contacts

Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install GitHub Copilot CLI 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 GitHub Copilot CLI.

    Pomeroy runs Copilot CLI's own mcp add command, which always writes your user configuration rather than one project's.

  3. 3

    Check GitHub Copilot CLI.

    Run copilot mcp list and pomeroy is listed. Inside a session, /mcp show pomeroy gives its tools.

  4. 4

    Ask GitHub Copilot CLI 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 GitHub Copilot CLI see my Apple Contacts?

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

Can GitHub Copilot CLI 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 GitHub Copilot CLI to Apple Contacts?

Pomeroy looks contacts up on your Mac and sends nothing to a Pomeroy server. What GitHub Copilot CLI 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.

GitHub Copilot CLI does not show Pomeroy's tools.

Then press Set up again in Pomeroy, under Settings › Assistants: every way Pomeroy sets an assistant up is safe to run twice. Then check that the app you asked about is switched on in Pomeroy: an app that is off serves no tools. Pomeroy's menu bar shows whether GitHub Copilot CLI is connected right now.

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Try GitHub Copilot CLI with Apple Contacts.

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