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Connect Gemini CLI to Apple Contacts

Yes, Gemini CLI can look people up in your Apple Contacts. Pomeroy connects Gemini 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 Gemini 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 Gemini 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 gemini cli to apple contacts

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

    Pomeroy runs Gemini CLI's own mcp add command with user scope, so Pomeroy is there in every project rather than one folder.

  3. 3

    Check Gemini CLI.

    Run gemini mcp list and pomeroy is listed. Inside a session, /mcp shows it with its tools. Start a new Gemini CLI session.

  4. 4

    Ask Gemini 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 Gemini CLI see my Apple Contacts?

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

Can Gemini 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 Gemini CLI to Apple Contacts?

Pomeroy looks contacts up on your Mac and sends nothing to a Pomeroy server. What Gemini 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.

Gemini CLI does not show Pomeroy's tools.

Start a new Gemini CLI session; a running one keeps the tool list it started with. 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 Gemini CLI is connected right now.

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