Apple Tools Agent Skill

apple-tools (iMCP)

Access Apple personal-information-management data on macOS through

iMCP, a menu-bar app that brokers the OS

permission grants, reached over MCP by pi-mcp-adapter.

Reachable services (seven)

Calendar · Contacts · Location · Maps · Messages · Reminders · Weather

• Messages here means iMessage / SMS — it is NOT email.
• There is no Mail service. iMCP exposes no Apple Mail access.

Mail is out of scope — redirect

If the user asks to read, search, or summarize Apple Mail / email:

• iMCP exposes no Mail service; do not attempt an iMCP/adapter tool call for Mail.
• Use the apple-mail-fast-export skill instead — it exports .eml files

directly from the on-disk Apple Mail store.

"Messages" satisfying an email request is a category error: Messages is

iMessage/SMS only.

Access pattern — search then invoke via the adapter

The agent reaches iMCP tools through pi-mcp-adapter, not by spawning the

server. Do not run imcp-server directly. Use the adapter's MCP tool

surface (search the available tools, then invoke).

Provisioning check (run at load)

This skill runs the installer's --check traversal on load (one sw_vers plus

a few stat calls; short-circuits instantly on non-macOS). If iMCP is not

provisioned it reports the gap and names the fix:

pi-apple-tools-install

Terminal states mirror the CLI and the dashboard panel:

UNSUPPORTED_PLATFORM, OS_VERSION_UNKNOWN, OS_TOO_OLD, NO_INSTALL_METHOD,

INSTALL_FAILED, CONFIG_UNPARSEABLE, CONFIG_WRITE_FAILED,

READY_PENDING_GRANTS.

READY is NOT one of them. It is a live-access result — reachable only by a

successful tool round-trip through the adapter, never by the provisioning

traversal, which cannot know whether the TCC grants were given.

If the state is anything other than READY_PENDING_GRANTS, do NOT attempt

Apple-data tool calls — report the gap and the pi-apple-tools-install

command first.

Permission grants are manual and out-of-band

The final step — granting Calendar/Contacts/… permissions — happens in the

iMCP menu-bar app and cannot be automated (Apple's TCC security model

has no API).

• The load-time check cannot detect a revoked grant ahead of a call.
• A permission-class failure at call time means the grant was **revoked or never

given → the fix is menu-bar remediation**, NOT re-running the installer.

Re-running pi-apple-tools-install will not restore a TCC grant.