Connect Pomeroy to Cherry Studio

Pomeroy opens Cherry Studio’s install link and Cherry Studio asks to confirm, twice. Then Cherry Studio can reach Mail, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Contacts, Messages, Maps, Weather and Shortcuts on your Mac, each app behind its own switch.

Cherry Studio is a desktop client for any model, and it works with Pomeroy. Pomeroy sets itself up in it with one click. Cherry Studio can then read the apps you switched on, and no others.

What Set up does. Pomeroy opens Cherry Studio’s install link and Cherry Studio shows the command it is about to add, with Cancel and Install. Nothing is written until you accept.

Set up

1. Install Pomeroy and switch on your apps

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

2. Install Cherry Studio, if you have not

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

3. Press Set up

   In Pomeroy’s Assistants pane, find Cherry Studio 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.

4. Pick it up

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

5. Ask something

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

The configuration

You do not need this. Set up writes it for you. 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 Cherry Studio › Settings › MCP Server › Add Server › Import from JSON:

{
  "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

Cherry Studio 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 Cherry Studio › Settings › MCP Server › Add Server › Import from JSON:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pomeroy": {
      "baseUrl": "http://127.0.0.1:13579/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <the key Pomeroy generates>"
      },
      "type": "streamableHttp"
    }
  }
}

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 Cherry Studio, Settings › MCP Server lists pomeroy. Switch it on, then ask a new chat what tools it has.

If the tools are missing, the cause is almost always that the assistant has not re-read its server list. Troubleshooting.

Worth knowing about Cherry Studio

Cherry Studio asks twice: once to install the server, and again before it will run a server that arrived from outside the app. Both prompts are Cherry Studio’s own.

What it can reach

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

Connect Pomeroy to Cherry Studio

The product page for Cherry Studio, with what it costs.