macos-ecosystem-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

macos-ecosystem-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from neverprepared/macos-ecosystem-mcp. It costs 1,433 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for an AI coding assistant working on a macOS Swift MCP server. They explain the server's architecture, tools, commands, dependencies, and release details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing, reviewing, building, or releasing the macos-ecosystem-mcp project.
Why use it?
They provide project-specific rules and background that a general coding assistant would not know.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is neverprepared/macos-ecosystem-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on macos-ecosystem-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 macos-ecosystem-mcp configures →

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Nothing to install: this file belongs to neverprepared/macos-ecosystem-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.

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CLAUDE.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Guidance for Claude Code when working in this repository.

Overview

macos-ecosystem-mcp is a native Swift Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes macOS productivity apps — Reminders, Calendar, Contacts, Notes and iMessage — to MCP clients over stdio. It compiles to a single self-contained binary (macos-mcp); there is no Node.js runtime at run time.

  • Package name: macos-mcp (executable target of the same name)
  • Server identity: macos-ecosystem-mcp, version 0.7.0 (hard-coded in App.swift)
  • Platform: macOS 13+, Swift tools 5.9
  • Sole dependency: modelcontextprotocol/swift-sdk (from: 0.9.0)
  • Linked: CoreLocation, Contacts frameworks + sqlite3

Architecture

All source lives in one flat target: Sources/macos-mcp/.

File Role
App.swift @main entry point. Boots managers, requests permissions, registers ListTools/CallTool handlers, and contains the single switch tool dispatcher. Also defines log().
ToolDefinitions.swift let allTools: [Tool] — every tool's name, description and JSON input schema.
EventKitManager.swift Reminders + Calendar via EventKit (no subprocess).
ContactsManager.swift Contacts via the Contacts framework.
NotesHandler.swift Notes via osascript (Notes.framework is private). Static methods, no instance.
MessagesManager.swift iMessage: reads query ~/Library/Messages/chat.db (SQLite, read-only); sends go through osascript.

Design notes worth knowing before editing:

  • stdout is reserved for the MCP protocol. All diagnostics go to stderr via log(). Never print() to stdout.
  • Every tool handler has the shape func name(args: [String: Value]) async throws -> String and returns a plain-text string; dispatch in App.swift wraps it in CallTool.Result and converts thrown errors into isError: true results.
  • Permissions (EventKit, Contacts) are requested once at startup, before any request is served.
  • iMessage sending is fail-closed: it is disabled until an allowlist is configured via the MACOS_MCP_IMESSAGE_ALLOWLIST env var (comma-separated) and/or ~/.config/macos-mcp/imessage-allowlist.json ({"allow": [...]}). Phone numbers match on the last 10 digits. Attachments from ~/.config/macos-mcp and ~/Library/Messages are refused. Reading chat.db and sending both require Full Disk Access.

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macos-ecosystem-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository neverprepared/macos-ecosystem-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,433 tokens to every session, about $0.0072 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 2026-09-09.

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