> ## 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 JetBrains AI Assistant

> Pomeroy copies the JSON that JetBrains AI Assistant's As JSON field takes. Paste it once and every JetBrains IDE has it. Then JetBrains AI Assistant can reach Mail, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Contacts, Messages, Maps, Weather and Shortcuts on your Mac, each app behind its own switch.

**JetBrains AI Assistant** lives inside IntelliJ, PyCharm and the rest of the
JetBrains IDEs, and it works with Pomeroy. Pomeroy writes the configuration and
you paste it in. JetBrains AI Assistant can then read the apps you switched on,
and no others.

<Info>
  **What Set up does.** Pomeroy puts the configuration on your clipboard as
  JSON. In your IDE, open **Settings › Tools › AI Assistant › Model Context
  Protocol (MCP)**, press **+** and choose **As JSON**, paste, and set Level to
  **Global** so every JetBrains IDE gets it.
</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 JetBrains AI Assistant 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 JetBrains AI Assistant, if you have not">
    Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install [JetBrains AI
    Assistant](https://www.jetbrains.com/ai/) 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 JetBrains AI Assistant 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.** JetBrains AI Assistant picks the server up on its
    own.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Ask something">
    In JetBrains AI Assistant, 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 **Settings › Tools › AI Assistant › Model Context Protocol (MCP) › + › As JSON**:

```json theme={null}
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pomeroy": {
      "args": [],
      "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. JetBrains AI Assistant documents the transport but no way to
carry a credential to it, so Pomeroy offers it the pipe only.

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

## How to check it worked

The MCP list in that settings pane shows Pomeroy with a green status once you
press **Apply**.

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.
JetBrains AI Assistant 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 JetBrains AI Assistant" icon="link" href="https://pomeroy.app/connect/jetbrains">
    The product page for JetBrains AI Assistant, with what it costs.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>