Connect Pomeroy to Perplexity

Perplexity for Mac works with Pomeroy. Pomeroy writes the configuration and you paste it in. Perplexity can then read the apps you switched on, and no others.

What Set up does. Perplexity’s Mac app takes local connectors through a form, with no file and no link, so Pomeroy puts the two values on your clipboard.

Set up

Install Pomeroy and switch on your apps

Download Pomeroy, drag it into Applications and open it. Switch on the apps you want Perplexity to reach. Everything starts off, and macOS asks you to approve each app as you switch it on. The full walkthrough.

Install Perplexity, if you have not

Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install Perplexity first if it is not there. Returning to Pomeroy’s window re-checks.

Press Set up

In Pomeroy’s Assistants pane, find Perplexity 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.

Pick it up

You may need to restart Perplexity. It picks the change up on its own in most versions; if the tools are missing, restart it.

Ask something

In Perplexity, ask what is on your calendar today. The answer comes from your Mac.

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 Perplexity › Settings › Connectors › Add Connector:

Server Name: 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.

Over the local endpoint

Not available. Perplexity’s Mac app takes local connectors only. It has no remote MCP support yet. The two ways in.

How to check it worked

In Perplexity, Settings › Connectors lists Pomeroy once you save the form. Perplexity may first ask you to install its helper for local connectors. If the tools are missing, the cause is almost always that the assistant has not re-read its server list. Troubleshooting.

What it can reach

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

What Pomeroy can do

Ten apps, 27 tools, and every refusal.

Permissions

What each toggle grants, and what macOS asks you for.

Other assistants

All 24, and what to do if yours is not listed.