> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://pomeroy.app/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Connect Pomeroy to Claude Code

> Pomeroy runs Claude Code's own command to register itself for every project. Start a new session and the tools are there. Then Claude Code can reach Mail, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Contacts, Messages, Maps, Weather and Shortcuts on your Mac, each app behind its own switch.

**Claude Code** is Anthropic's terminal agent, and it works with Pomeroy.
Pomeroy sets itself up in it with one click. Claude Code can then read the apps
you switched on, and no others.

<Info>
  **What Set up does.** Pomeroy runs Claude Code's own `claude mcp add` command
  with user scope, so Pomeroy is available in every project rather than one
  folder. If the `claude` command is not where Pomeroy can find it, Pomeroy adds
  the same entry to Claude Code's configuration file instead.
</Info>

## Set up

<Steps>
  <Step title="Install Pomeroy and switch on your apps">
    [Download Pomeroy](https://pomeroy.app/download), drag it into Applications
    and open it. Switch on the apps you want Claude Code to reach. Everything
    starts off, and macOS asks you to approve each app as you switch it on. [The
    full walkthrough](/docs/getting-started/installation).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Install Claude Code, if you have not">
    Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install [Claude
    Code](https://claude.com/product/claude-code) first if it is not there.
    Returning to Pomeroy's window re-checks.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Press Set up">
    In Pomeroy's **Assistants** pane, find Claude Code 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.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick it up">
    **Start a new Claude Code session.** A session already running keeps the
    tool list it started with.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Ask something">
    In Claude Code, ask what is on your calendar today. The answer comes from
    your Mac.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## 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.

Run it in the Terminal:

```sh theme={null}
claude mcp add --scope user pomeroy -- /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](/docs/configuration/stdio).

## Over the local endpoint

Claude Code can also reach Pomeroy over the [HTTP
endpoint](/docs/configuration/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.

Run it in the Terminal:

```sh theme={null}
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http pomeroy http://127.0.0.1:13579/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer <the key Pomeroy generates>"
```

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

Run `claude mcp list` in the Terminal and `pomeroy` is listed. Inside a session,
`/mcp` shows it connected, with its tools.

If the tools are missing, the cause is almost always that the assistant has not
re-read its server list.
[Troubleshooting](/docs/getting-started/troubleshooting#an-assistant-cannot-see-the-tools).

## Worth knowing about Claude Code

Warp reads Claude Code's configuration too, so this one registration also
reaches Warp's agent.

## What it can reach

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

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="What Pomeroy can do" icon="grid-2" href="/docs/features/overview">
    Ten apps, 27 tools, and every refusal.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Permissions" icon="toggle-on" href="/docs/getting-started/permissions">
    What each toggle grants, and what macOS asks you for.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Other assistants" icon="plug" href="/docs/assistants/overview">
    All 24, and what to do if yours is not listed.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Connect Pomeroy to Claude Code" icon="link" href="https://pomeroy.app/connect/claude-code">
    The product page for Claude Code, with what it costs.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>