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Connect goose to Apple Contacts

Yes, goose can look people up in your Apple Contacts. Pomeroy connects goose 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 goose 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 goose 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 goose to apple contacts

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

    Pomeroy puts an extensions entry on your clipboard. Paste it into goose's config.yaml, keeping any extensions already there.

  3. 3

    Paste it into goose.

    Paste the configuration into ~/.config/goose/config.yaml. In goose, the extensions list (Settings › Extensions in the desktop app, or goose configure in the Terminal) shows Pomeroy enabled. Start a new goose session.

  4. 4

    Ask goose 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 goose see my Apple Contacts?

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

Can goose 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 goose to Apple Contacts?

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

goose does not show Pomeroy's tools.

Start a new goose 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 goose is connected right now.

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