> ## 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 Cursor

> Pomeroy opens Cursor's install link. Cursor shows the command and asks you to confirm. Then Cursor can reach Mail, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Contacts, Messages, Maps, Weather and Shortcuts on your Mac, each app behind its own switch.

**Cursor** is an AI code editor, and it works with Pomeroy. Pomeroy sets itself
up in it with one click. Cursor can then read the apps you switched on, and no
others.

<Info>
  **What Set up does.** Pomeroy opens Cursor's own install link. Cursor shows a
  dialog with the command it is about to add and asks you to confirm. If Cursor
  does not respond, Pomeroy writes the same entry to Cursor's configuration
  file.
</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 Cursor 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 Cursor, if you have not">
    Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install
    [Cursor](https://cursor.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 Cursor 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">
    **You may need to restart Cursor.** It picks the change up on its own in
    most versions; if the tools are missing, restart it.
  </Step>

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

## The configuration

You do not need this. **Set up** writes it for you. 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 `~/.cursor/mcp.json`:

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

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

Cursor can also reach Pomeroy over the [HTTP
endpoint](/docs/configuration/http-endpoint) instead of the pipe. Use it only for a
copy running somewhere that cannot start a program on this Mac, such as a
container or a remote workspace. Switch the local address on in Pomeroy's
**Connections** pane first.

Goes in `~/.cursor/mcp.json`:

```json theme={null}
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pomeroy": {
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <the key Pomeroy generates>"
      },
      "url": "http://127.0.0.1:13579/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

Pomeroy writes the real token in place of the placeholder when it can reach this
assistant's settings. Otherwise you can read the token under **Connections**.

## How to check it worked

In Cursor's settings, the MCP section lists `pomeroy` with its tools. In a chat,
agent mode can call them.

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 Cursor

Cursor's dialog shows the command it is about to add. Pomeroy's is a single path
with no arguments, so what you approve is all there is.

## What it can reach

Only the apps you switched on, and only through the tools Pomeroy publishes.
Cursor 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 Cursor" icon="link" href="https://pomeroy.app/connect/cursor">
    The product page for Cursor, with what it costs.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>