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Everything Pomeroy can be told is in one window. Click the tree icon in your menu bar and choose Settings. There is no configuration file of Pomeroy’s own to edit, and no Terminal command. The files Pomeroy does write belong to your assistants, and each assistant’s page here shows exactly what goes in them.

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The five panes

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Apps

The same grid you saw at setup. Switching an app on for the first time asks macOS for its permission; switching one off takes its tools away at once, from every assistant, without a restart. A toggle is your intent and a grant is macOS’s answer, and they are not the same thing. Permissions is the whole of that.

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Assistants

Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac. Press Set up on a row and Pomeroy configures that assistant however its own vendor documents: an extension, an install link, its own CLI, its configuration file, or your clipboard. Pressing Set up twice is safe. It is the same write every time, and it never disturbs another server already in the file.

Your assistant's own page

What Set up does, how to check it worked, and the configuration in full.

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Connections

Two ways in, and one of them is a switch.
Direct, always onAssistants talk to Pomeroy straight through the app, on this Mac. No port, no credential, nothing to revoke: the filesystem has already decided who may speak to it. How it works.
Local address, off until you switch it onOne address on this Mac for an assistant that cannot start a program: one in a container, or one that takes only a URL. How it works.
Direct cannot be switched off. If you close the local address, your assistants still work.

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Who gets in

The local address is guarded by one setting for the whole endpoint, in one of three modes. Token is the default. The modes are exclusive rather than degrees of strictness. What each one means, and why Open exists.

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Licence

Enter the key from your purchase email and press Activate. Until then this Mac is on the free allowance, and the sidebar shows what is left of the week. A licence covers one Mac at a time. Deactivate this Mac frees the key so you can use it on another. Buy and activate · Moving Macs and refunds

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General

On by default. Pomeroy checks daily while it is running and installs new versions quietly in the background. Every update is signed, and one whose signature does not match the bytes is thrown away rather than installed.Switch it off and Pomeroy never asks again. Check for Updates… is then the only thing that looks.
Shown at the foot of the sidebar. Quote it in an email if something is wrong.

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What Pomeroy writes on your Mac

Four places, and nothing else. Removing all of it.

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Permissions

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

Troubleshooting

Every way Pomeroy can appear not to work, and the fix.