> ## 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 goose

> Pomeroy copies a YAML block for goose's config file. Paste it in and start a new session. Then goose can reach Mail, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Contacts, Messages, Maps, Weather and Shortcuts on your Mac, each app behind its own switch.

**goose** is Block's open-source agent, and it works with Pomeroy. Pomeroy
writes the configuration and you paste it in. goose can then read the apps you
switched on, and no others.

<Info>
  **What Set up does.** Pomeroy puts an `extensions` entry on your clipboard.
  Paste it into goose's `config.yaml`, keeping any extensions already there.
</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 goose 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 goose, if you have not">
    Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install
    [goose](https://block.github.io/goose/) 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 goose 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">
    **Start a new goose session.** A session already running keeps the tool list
    it started with.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Ask something">
    In goose, 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 `~/.config/goose/config.yaml`:

```yaml theme={null}
extensions:
  pomeroy:
    name: Pomeroy
    type: stdio
    cmd: /Applications/Pomeroy.app/Contents/MacOS/pomeroy-mcp
    args: []
    enabled: true
    timeout: 300
```

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

goose 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 `~/.config/goose/config.yaml`:

```yaml theme={null}
extensions:
  pomeroy:
    name: Pomeroy
    type: streamable_http
    uri: http://127.0.0.1:13579/mcp
    headers:
      Authorization: "Bearer <the key Pomeroy generates>"
    enabled: true
    timeout: 300
```

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 goose, the extensions list (**Settings › Extensions** in the desktop app, or
`goose configure` in the Terminal) shows Pomeroy enabled.

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).

## What it can reach

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