AI assistants

The 24 AI assistants Pomeroy sets itself up in, what setup does in each, and what to do when yours is not on the list.

Pomeroy works with any AI assistant that speaks MCP and runs on your Mac. It knows twenty-four of them by name: it finds them, sets itself up in them, and tells you what each one needs afterwards.

Every assistant reaches the same server and obeys the same switches. Connecting a second one adds tools, not permissions.

Set up in one click

Pomeroy uses whichever mechanism the vendor documents: an extension, an install link, the assistant’s own CLI, or its configuration file. You press Set up and answer whatever prompt the assistant itself shows.

Claude Desktop

An extension Claude Desktop installs

Claude Code

Its own claude mcp add, user scope

Cursor

Cursor’s install link

VS Code

VS Code’s install link

VS Code Insiders

The nightly build, set up separately

Codex

One file the CLI, IDE and ChatGPT app share

LM Studio

One entry in its mcp.json

Kiro

Kiro’s install link

Cherry Studio

Cherry Studio’s install link

Cline

The settings file every Cline surface shares

AnythingLLM

One entry in its server file

Gemini CLI

Its own mcp add, user scope

GitHub Copilot CLI

Its own mcp add

OpenCode

Its own mcp add, terminal and desktop

Set up by pasting

These have no configuration file Pomeroy can safely write, or no install link their vendor documents. Pomeroy puts the exact configuration on your clipboard and says where it goes.

Raycast

Three values for its Install MCP Server form

ChatWise

Import JSON from Clipboard

goose

A YAML block for config.yaml

Windsurf

JSON for mcp_config.json

Warp

JSON for .mcp.json

Zed

A context_servers block

Perplexity

Two values for its Add Connector form

JetBrains AI Assistant

JSON for every JetBrains IDE at once

BoltAI

JSON for its plugin settings

Msty Studio

Two values for its Toolbox

Mine is not on the list

Any assistant that can start a local MCP server works, from the same configuration. Point it at the pipe:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pomeroy": {
      "command": "/Applications/Pomeroy.app/Contents/MacOS/pomeroy-mcp"
    }
  }
}

If it takes a URL rather than a command, switch on the local address in Pomeroy’s Connections pane and give it the endpoint instead.

Pomeroy’s Copy configuration button produces the same text.

What Set up never does

It writes

• One pomeroy entry, in the file that assistant reads
• Nothing outside that entry
• The same bytes every time, so pressing Set up twice is safe

It does not

• Remove or rewrite another server in the file
• Rewrite a file that allows comments. Those go to your clipboard instead
• Change anything about the assistant beyond its server list

After setup

Assistant	What it needs
Claude Desktop, Codex	A full quit and reopen
Claude Code, Gemini CLI, goose	A new session
Cursor, Cherry Studio, OpenCode, Warp, Zed, Perplexity, Msty Studio	Usually nothing; restart if the tools are missing
The rest	Nothing. They pick it up on their own

Cloud assistants

claude.ai in a browser, ChatGPT on the web and Grok cannot reach Pomeroy at all, and that is a decision rather than a gap.

Why cloud assistants cannot connect

What runs where, and the desktop equivalents that work today.