Connect Pomeroy to ChatWise

ChatWise is a Mac chat app for any model, and it works with Pomeroy. Pomeroy writes the configuration and you paste it in. ChatWise can then read the apps you switched on, and no others.

What Set up does. Pomeroy puts the configuration on your clipboard as JSON. In ChatWise, Settings › Tools › + › Import JSON from Clipboard adds it.

Set up

Install Pomeroy and switch on your apps

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

Install ChatWise, if you have not

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

Press Set up

In Pomeroy’s Assistants pane, find ChatWise 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

No restart needed. ChatWise picks the server up on its own.

Ask something

In ChatWise, 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 ChatWise › Settings › Tools › + › Import JSON from Clipboard:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "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. ChatWise documents the transport but no way to carry a credential to it, so Pomeroy offers it the pipe only. The two ways in.

How to check it worked

In ChatWise, Settings › Tools lists Pomeroy. Switch it on for a chat and the tools appear. If the tools are missing, the cause is almost always that the assistant has not re-read its server list. Troubleshooting.

Worth knowing about ChatWise

Mark the tool as long-running in ChatWise, so Pomeroy’s connection is not started afresh for every chat.

What it can reach

Only the apps you switched on, and only through the tools Pomeroy publishes. ChatWise 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.