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I kept hitting the same wall: AI assistants are great until they need my context — the email thread, the calendar, the iMessage, the file on my disk. Cloud connectors can only reach things with a public API, so they physically can't touch the stuff that lives only on my machine.So I built Local MCP — a native macOS app that connects Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and ChatGPT to your real local apps over MCP: Mail, Calendar, Contacts, iMessage, Microsoft Teams, Slack, WhatsApp, Notes, Reminders, OmniFocus, OneDrive/Google Drive, Office docs, and local files. ~180 tools.The part I care about most is where the data goes:- Desktop/CLI clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code): everything runs on localhost — nothing leaves your Mac, no API keys, no OAuth to us.- Web AIs (ChatGPT, Claude.ai) that can't reach localhost: there's an optional, opt-in encrypted relay you turn on yourself. It's off by default and it's the only path anything leaves the machine. I flag this explicitly because "100% local" gets thrown around loosely.How it reaches the hard stuff: Calendar/Contacts via EventKit; Mail/Notes/Messages via AppleScript/JXA against the running apps; Teams/Slack/WhatsApp by reading their local on-disk stores (IndexedDB/LevelDB) rather than any Graph API — so it sees history a cloud integration can't. Destructive actions (send email, delete event) always preview and ask first.It's past the experiment stage — a few hundred people run it and the heavy users do thousands of operations a day. It's free, no paid tier yet. macOS-only for now (closed-source today).Install: signed .app at https://local-mcp.com, or `curl -fsSL 'https://local-mcp.com/install?ref=show-hn' | bash`Happy to go deep on anything — the local-store readers, the JXA/TCC permission model, the opt-in relay design, why macOS-only.
Comments (4)
how does it deal with apple's sandbox restrictions
another tool that wants access to literally everything on my machine
what's the actual permission model for disk and imessage access
how do you handle permission scoping for imessage and disk access
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