Agent-Native Calendar
Agent-Native Google Calendar - manage events, sync, and public booking
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Search, read and act on Apple Notes — folders, attachments, writes off by default
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APPLE_NOTES_ALLOW_WRITES, APPLE_NOTES_ACCOUNTSYou need
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Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apple-notes": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@mgcrea/mcp-apple-notes"
],
"env": {
"APPLE_NOTES_ALLOW_WRITES": "your-value",
"APPLE_NOTES_ACCOUNTS": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Run this in your terminal
claude mcp add apple-notes --env APPLE_NOTES_ALLOW_WRITES=your-value --env APPLE_NOTES_ACCOUNTS=your-value -- npx -y @mgcrea/mcp-apple-notesFill in the empty values before running it.
Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apple-notes": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@mgcrea/mcp-apple-notes"
],
"env": {
"APPLE_NOTES_ALLOW_WRITES": "your-value",
"APPLE_NOTES_ACCOUNTS": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.
Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project
{
"servers": {
"apple-notes": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@mgcrea/mcp-apple-notes"
],
"env": {
"APPLE_NOTES_ALLOW_WRITES": "your-value",
"APPLE_NOTES_ACCOUNTS": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.
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Runs on your computer; the tool list appears in your AI app after you install it.
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Runs on your computer and uses local settings instead
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Agent-Native Google Calendar - manage events, sync, and public booking
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Model Context Protocol server for the macOS Apple Notes app.
Unofficial. Not affiliated with Apple. It drives the Notes app that is already on your Mac.
NoteStore.sqlite, for search and metadata at a scale Apple Events cannot reach. Needs Full Disk Access.Unlike Mail, the Apple Events lane alone is a working server. Measured on a 921-note library, a full-text search takes 97 ms — against the 74 s that forced Mail onto its index. So you can install this, use it, and only then decide whether to grant Full Disk Access.
It does not scale for ever: there is no index behind it, so every query pays the full cost again. The wall is around 5–10k notes. apple_notes_diagnostics tells you which lane is answering.
| Permission | Needed for | Without it |
|---|---|---|
| Automation → Notes | everything | nothing works; you get a -1743 error |
| Full Disk Access | search at scale, save_attachment | the server still runs, on the Apple Events lane |
Neither is granted to Notes.app — it is the _reader_ that needs permission.
Read: diagnostics, list_accounts, list_folders, list_notes, search_notes, get_note, list_attachments, save_attachment.
Write, registered only when APPLE_NOTES_ALLOW_WRITES=1 — with the flag off they are invisible to the model, not merely refused: create_note, update_note, move_note, delete_notes, add_attachment.
add_attachment is the only way to put an image in a note. An tag in a note's body creates an attachment whose bytes Notes never loads — see docs/notes.md.
| Variable | Default | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
APPLE_NOTES_ALLOW_WRITES | off | Register the mutating tools. | |||
APPLE_NOTES_ACCOUNTS | all | Read-side allowlist, comma-separated. | |||
APPLE_NOTES_INDEX_MODE | auto | auto \ | ro \ | immutable \ | off. |
APPLE_NOTES_STORE | auto | Explicit NoteStore.sqlite path. | |||
APPLE_NOTES_SEARCH_CACHE_TTL_MS | 60000 | How long the body corpus stays warm. | |||
APPLE_NOTES_ATTACHMENT_DIR | ~/Downloads | The only directory attachments may be saved into. | |||
APPLE_NOTES_BODY_MAX_BYTES | 262144 | Body truncation, to protect the context window. | |||
APPLE_NOTES_OSASCRIPT_TIMEOUT_MS | 30000 | Sized for the first-run permission prompt. |
name is silently ignored, so create_note prepends the title as a heading instead.ZICNOTEDATA carries crypto columns; no permission makes it readable.MIT.