> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://pomeroy.app/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Connect Pomeroy to BoltAI

> Pomeroy copies the JSON BoltAI's plugin settings take. Paste it and choose Reload Config. Then BoltAI can reach Mail, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Contacts, Messages, Maps, Weather and Shortcuts on your Mac, each app behind its own switch.

**BoltAI** is a native Mac app for any model, and it works with Pomeroy. Pomeroy
writes the configuration and you paste it in. BoltAI can then read the apps you
switched on, and no others.

<Info>
  **What Set up does.** Pomeroy puts the configuration on your clipboard. In
  BoltAI, open **Settings › Plugins**, press **+**, paste, and save. There is no
  restart: choose **Reload Config** from the ⋯ menu.
</Info>

## Set up

<Steps>
  <Step title="Install Pomeroy and switch on your apps">
    [Download Pomeroy](https://pomeroy.app/download), drag it into Applications
    and open it. Switch on the apps you want BoltAI to reach. Everything starts
    off, and macOS asks you to approve each app as you switch it on. [The full
    walkthrough](/docs/getting-started/installation).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Install BoltAI, if you have not">
    Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install
    [BoltAI](https://boltai.com/download) first if it is not there. Returning to
    Pomeroy's window re-checks.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Press Set up">
    In Pomeroy's **Assistants** pane, find BoltAI and press **Set up**. It is
    safe to press any number of times. It writes the same thing every time, and
    it never disturbs another server already there.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick it up">
    **No restart needed.** BoltAI picks the server up on its own.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Ask something">
    In BoltAI, ask what is on your calendar today. The answer comes from your
    Mac.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## The configuration

**Set up** puts this on your clipboard. It is here so you can see what Pomeroy
adds, check it by hand, or set up a second Mac without opening the panel.

Goes in **BoltAI › Settings › Plugins › + (then ⋯ › Reload Config)**:

```json theme={null}
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pomeroy": {
      "command": "/Applications/Pomeroy.app/Contents/MacOS/pomeroy-mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The command is a single absolute path with no arguments, and it lives inside
Pomeroy's app bundle, so an update never changes it. [What the pipe
is](/docs/configuration/stdio).

## Over the local endpoint

Not available. BoltAI's MCP support is a bridge rather than a transport, so
there is no HTTP server for it to point at.

[The two ways in](/docs/configuration/overview).

## How to check it worked

In BoltAI, open **Settings › Plugins** and `pomeroy` is listed. Enable it for a
chat and the tools appear.

If the tools are missing, the cause is almost always that the assistant has not
re-read its server list.
[Troubleshooting](/docs/getting-started/troubleshooting#an-assistant-cannot-see-the-tools).

## Worth knowing about BoltAI

BoltAI documents where its configuration file lives but not what goes inside it,
so Pomeroy shows you the configuration rather than writing a file on a guess.
MCP also needs a paid BoltAI licence.

## What it can reach

Only the apps you switched on, and only through the tools Pomeroy publishes.
BoltAI cannot send mail, send a message, delete anything or edit a contact,
because no tool does those things.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="What Pomeroy can do" icon="grid-2" href="/docs/features/overview">
    Ten apps, 27 tools, and every refusal.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Permissions" icon="toggle-on" href="/docs/getting-started/permissions">
    What each toggle grants, and what macOS asks you for.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Other assistants" icon="plug" href="/docs/assistants/overview">
    All 24, and what to do if yours is not listed.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Connect Pomeroy to BoltAI" icon="link" href="https://pomeroy.app/connect/boltai">
    The product page for BoltAI, with what it costs.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>