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Connect VS Code to Apple Contacts

Yes, VS Code can look people up in your Apple Contacts. Pomeroy connects VS Code 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 VS Code 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 VS Code 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 vs code to apple contacts

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

    Pomeroy opens VS Code's own install link. VS Code adds pomeroy to your user MCP configuration and asks you to trust it before starting it the first time.

  3. 3

    Check VS Code.

    In VS Code, run MCP: List Servers from the Command Palette and pomeroy is listed as running. In Copilot chat, agent mode shows Pomeroy's tools.

  4. 4

    Ask VS Code 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 VS Code see my Apple Contacts?

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

Can VS Code 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 VS Code to Apple Contacts?

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

VS Code 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 VS Code is connected right now.

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