Apple Contacts

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add apple-contacts-mcp -e APPLE_CONTACTS_MCP_SAFETY_MODE=... -- uvx apple-contacts-mcp

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apple-contacts-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "apple-contacts-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APPLE_CONTACTS_MCP_SAFETY_MODE": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

Inspect and search Apple Contacts on macOS, and resolve a contact into a message-ready recipient.

Questions

Apple Contacts is a local MCP server distributed as the pypi package apple-contacts-mcp.

Run: claude mcp add apple-contacts-mcp -e APPLE_CONTACTS_MCP_SAFETY_MODE=... -- uvx apple-contacts-mcp

Run: codex mcp add apple-contacts-mcp --env APPLE_CONTACTS_MCP_SAFETY_MODE=... -- uvx apple-contacts-mcp

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