Connect Pomeroy to Zed

Zed is an editor with assistant panels, and it works with Pomeroy. Pomeroy writes the configuration and you paste it in. Zed can then read the apps you switched on, and no others.

What Set up does. Zed’s settings file allows comments, and Pomeroy will not rewrite a file it cannot leave byte for byte as you wrote it, so it puts the block on your clipboard for you to paste.

Set up

Install Pomeroy and switch on your apps

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

Install Zed, if you have not

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

Press Set up

In Pomeroy’s Assistants pane, find Zed 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 Zed. It picks the change up on its own in most versions; if the tools are missing, restart it.

Ask something

In Zed, 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 ~/.config/zed/settings.json:

{
  "context_servers": {
    "pomeroy": {
      "args": [],
      "command": "/Applications/Pomeroy.app/Contents/MacOS/pomeroy-mcp",
      "env": {}
    }
  }
}

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

Zed can also reach Pomeroy over the 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 Zed › Settings › AI › MCP Servers › Add Server › Add Remote Server:

{
  "context_servers": {
    "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 Zed, open the agent panel’s settings and Pomeroy is listed under context servers, with its tools. 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. Zed 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.