icloud-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

icloud-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from MrGo2/icloud-mcp. It costs 2,429 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for an iCloud MCP server that lets an agent access Apple services through local macOS apps or iCloud protocols.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to switch modes and work with email, calendars, contacts, reminders, notes, messages, and Safari where supported.
Why use it?
They explain the available access modes, requirements, and limits so the agent uses the correct connection.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is MrGo2/icloud-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on icloud-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything icloud-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to MrGo2/icloud-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MrGo2/icloud-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MrGo2/icloud-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.02429 $0.02429
Opus 5 $0.01215 $0.01215
Sonnet 5 $0.00486 $0.00486
Haiku 4.5 $0.00243 $0.00243

Measured 8d ago against content hash e722bc138274, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

icloud-mcp CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iCloud MCP Server

This MCP server provides Claude with access to Apple services via two modes:

Modes

Mode Description Services Requirements
LOCAL (default) AppleScript access to macOS apps 7 services, 41 tools macOS
CLOUD iCloud protocols (IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV) 3 services, 41 tools* App-specific password

* In CLOUD mode, local-only tools (Reminders, Notes, Messages, Safari) return an error when called.

Runtime Mode Switching

Use set-mode to switch between modes without restarting:

  • set-mode local → AppleScript access to all macOS apps
  • set-mode cloud → iCloud protocols (requires credentials)

Services Available

Local Mode (macOS only)

Service Protocol Tools
Email Mail.app (AppleScript) 6
Calendar Calendar.app (AppleScript) 5
Contacts Contacts.app (AppleScript) 7
Reminders Reminders.app (AppleScript) 7
Notes Notes.app (AppleScript) 5
Messages Messages.app + imsg CLI 4
Safari Safari.app (AppleScript) 4

All seven services now honour the mode. Email and Calendar route through local-client.js in LOCAL mode and IMAP/SMTP/CalDAV in CLOUD mode.

Field differences between modes (normalized where possible):

Field LOCAL CLOUD
Email handle (uid arg) Mail.app message ID IMAP UID
Event/calendar handle Calendar.app UID / calendar name CalDAV URL
Email unread flag read boolean \Seen in flags
Event end time available available
send-email message ID not returned by Mail.app returned by SMTP
create-event target calendarName calendarUrl

Handlers normalize these to a common shape (ref, unread, start/end), so a tool returns the same field names in both modes. The two genuinely unavailable values are the SMTP message ID and isHtml (Mail.app sends plain text), which are simply omitted in LOCAL mode.

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 250 lines · 2,429 tokens per session scan A e722bc138274

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icloud-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository MrGo2/icloud-mcp (48 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,429 tokens to every session, about $0.0121 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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