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icloud-mcp

An MCP server for iCloud Mail, Calendar, Contacts and Reminders. Works with Claude, Grok Bot, and any MCP client.

Version 2.8.0 (86 tools).

Works with: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Claude custom connectors (including phone), Grok Bot, and other MCP clients over stdio or Streamable HTTP. "Works with" describes compatibility only; this is an independent project and is not endorsed by or affiliated with Anthropic or xAI.

Pick your client

Local stdio setups run on your own machine. Remote setups run the server on a Mac you control, behind a tunnel and an access policy, so that machine must be awake and online.

Remote mode is drafts-only. Run remote setups with ICLOUD_MCP_SEND_MODE=drafts and ICLOUD_MCP_TOOL_PROFILE=remote-safe so connected clients can read and draft but cannot send mail. See Send mode and Tool profiles.

Features

• Read, search, and paginate any mailbox, including threads, attachments, and unsubscribe links
• Send, reply, forward, and save drafts over SMTP
• Bulk move, delete, flag, and mark-read, with a safe copy-verify-delete pipeline for moves
• Saved rules, digest state, and a session log for long cleanups
• Contacts over CardDAV, calendars over CalDAV (including bulk create/update/delete and conflict checks), and Reminders
• dryRun on every delete, every move that removes the original, and every bulk operation. A dry run reports a changes list of exactly what would be affected and does not modify anything

Prerequisites

• Node.js 20 or newer
• An MCP client, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Grok Bot, or any client that supports stdio or Streamable HTTP
• An iCloud account with an app-specific password

Install

Install from npm:

npm install -g icloud-mcp

Or skip the install and let npx fetch it on demand (the configs below use this).

Confirm the server can reach iCloud:

IMAP_USER="you@icloud.com" IMAP_PASSWORD="your-app-specific-password" npx -y icloud-mcp --doctor

Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "icloud-mail": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "icloud-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "IMAP_USER": "you@icloud.com",
        "IMAP_PASSWORD": "your-app-specific-password"
      }
    }
  }
}

If Claude Desktop cannot find npx, use its full path (which npx). With a global install, "command": "icloud-mcp" and no args also works. Quit Claude Desktop completely and reopen it.

Claude Code

claude mcp add icloud-mail \
  --scope user \
  -e IMAP_USER=you@icloud.com \
  -e IMAP_PASSWORD=your-app-specific-password \
  -- npx -y icloud-mcp

From source

git clone https://github.com/adamzaidi/icloud-mcp.git
cd icloud-mcp
npm install

Point the configs above at node /absolute/path/to/icloud-mcp/index.js instead of npx -y icloud-mcp. To run from a checkout, copy .mcp.json.example to .mcp.json (that file is gitignored) and export ICLOUD_EMAIL and ICLOUD_APP_PASSWORD in your shell.

Additional IMAP accounts use IMAP_ACCOUNT_N_USER, IMAP_ACCOUNT_N_PASSWORD, IMAP_ACCOUNT_N_HOST, IMAP_ACCOUNT_N_SMTP_HOST, and IMAP_ACCOUNT_N_NAME.

If IMAP_USER or IMAP_PASSWORD is unset, the server fills the missing value from the macOS Keychain via security find-generic-password. The service name defaults to icloud-mcp and can be changed with ICLOUD_MCP_KEYCHAIN_SERVICE. When both variables are already set, Keychain is not read. IMAP_PASS is used only when IMAP_PASSWORD is unset. The password is not written to the log. node mcp-call.mjs loads a .env file in the checkout when one exists, and keeps working from the process environment when it does not.

ICLOUD_MCP_REMINDER_LIST is the Reminders list name mentioned by the digest tools. The default is claude.

Local data

Rules, the move manifest, digest state, the session log, and the audit log are written outside the repository, in your home directory:

• ~/.icloud-mcp-rules.json
• ~/.icloud-mcp-move-manifest.json
• ~/.icloud-mcp-digest.json
• ~/.icloud-mcp-session.json
• ~/.icloud-mcp/audit.log
• ~/.icloud-mcp/subscribed-calendars.json (only when ICLOUD_MCP_SUBSCRIBED_CALENDARS=on)

The audit log is append-only. The default file lives in ~/.icloud-mcp/, which this server creates mode 0700 when that directory is missing. A directory that already exists is not changed. If that directory is group or world writable, the server warns once and leaves it. The log file, including rotated copies, is mode 0600. Each line is one JSON object with a fixed set of fields: tool name, timestamp, status (ok or error), duration, and one integer count. That count is an array length, or a number taken from a fixed list of result fields such as total or wouldDelete. Keys on the result are never copied, so a sender address used as a key is not written. Arguments, error text, message bodies, and subjects are not written either. When the file reaches 1 MiB it is rotated through .1, .2, and .3. ICLOUD_MCP_AUDIT_LOG_MAX_BYTES changes that size. Set ICLOUD_MCP_AUDIT_LOG to move the file. Set ICLOUD_MCP_DATA_DIR to store the other local files somewhere else; the audit log then defaults to $ICLOUD_MCP_DATA_DIR/.icloud-mcp/audit.log. Do not point it at the git checkout. Contact exports, CRM notes, .env, and digest output belong outside the repo; .gitignore already excludes the usual local folders.

Available tools (86)

dryRun: true returns { dryRun: true, changes: [...] } plus the existing count fields (wouldDelete, wouldMove, and so on). Omitted or false performs the change.

Tool profiles

ICLOUD_MCP_TOOL_PROFILE defaults to full, which is the list below. remote-safe is an allowlist: only the read, search, draft, and calendar or reminder create and edit tools named in that list are exposed, including flag_email and mark_as_read. A tool that is not on the list is hidden, including tools added later. bulk_create_events and bulk_update_events are on the list, and in remote-safe they run as a dry run unless that tool name is listed in ICLOUD_MCP_ALLOW_BULK (comma-separated). A hidden tool still throws if something calls it.

Mail

Contacts

Calendar

list_events and search_events return only events that overlap the requested since/before range. A recurring event is kept when iCloud reports one of its occurrences in that range, even though its listed start is the first occurrence.

Subscribed calendars

iCloud lists a subscribed calendar (an ICS or webcal:// feed added in Calendar.app) over CalDAV but returns no events for it, so the tools above miss everything on it. Set ICLOUD_MCP_SUBSCRIBED_CALENDARS=on to read those feeds from their source URL instead. The default is off, and when off nothing is read from disk or the network; list_calendars only gains a subscribedCalendars: { enabled, count } field. Any other value refuses to start.

Feeds are listed in ~/.icloud-mcp/subscribed-calendars.json (or ICLOUD_MCP_SUBSCRIBED_CALENDARS_FILE; with ICLOUD_MCP_DATA_DIR set the default is $ICLOUD_MCP_DATA_DIR/.icloud-mcp/subscribed-calendars.json). The file maps a display name to a URL. When it is missing and the feature is on, the server creates it empty, mode 0600, in a directory it creates mode 0700. The example below uses placeholders:

{
  "Team Holidays": "https://calendar.example.com/feeds/holidays.ics",
  "School": "webcal://school.example.com/calendar/term.ics",
  "Club": "keychain:club-calendar"
}

webcal:// is rewritten to https://. keychain:<account> reads the URL from the macOS Keychain item with that account name under the icloud-mcp service (or ICLOUD_MCP_KEYCHAIN_SERVICE), using the same security find-generic-password lookup as the password. Only https:// targets on port 443 are allowed, with no credentials in the URL; ICLOUD_MCP_SUBSCRIBED_CALENDARS_PORTS (comma-separated) permits other ports. Each calendar gets a stable id of subscribed- plus a slug of its name (for example subscribed-team-holidays); two names that slug the same are refused.

Do not give a subscription the same display name as an existing iCloud calendar. iCloud still lists its own copy of a subscribed calendar (with no events), so the same name would appear twice in list_calendars; delete_calendar by name then refuses as ambiguous, and create_calendar refuses the name as taken. Pick a distinct name, or address calendars by calendarId.

When on, list_calendars includes each feed with readOnly: true and subscribed: true, and list_events, get_event, list_events_multi, search_events, and detect_conflicts accept those ids. Events use the same fields as iCloud events plus readOnly: true, source: "subscribed", untrusted: true, and, on an expanded occurrence, recurrenceId. An occurrence id is <uid>_<recurrence stamp>. Recurrence rules (RRULE with DAILY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY, YEARLY, INTERVAL, COUNT, UNTIL, BYDAY, BYMONTHDAY, BYMONTH, BYSETPOS, WKST), RDATE, EXDATE, DURATION, and RECURRENCE-ID overrides are expanded locally. A rule without COUNT is evaluated from the query window, not from its first occurrence, so a daily event that started decades ago still returns this month's instances. TZID values are resolved as IANA names, including vendor-prefixed ids and X-LIC-LOCATION; an unknown id falls back to the feed's VTIMEZONE standard offset, then to floating time. create_event, update_event, delete_event, the bulk event tools, and delete_calendar refuse a subscribed calendar with a read-only error, including as a dry run, before any request is made.

Security notes:

• Feed URLs are secrets. They frequently carry a private token. The URL never appears in tool output, errors, stderr, or the audit log; errors name the calendar instead. Keep the file private and do not paste its contents into chats or issues. If the file is readable by other users, the server warns once on stderr (without the path) and keeps going; run chmod 600 on it.
• Fetches are https:// only, on port 443 unless ICLOUD_MCP_SUBSCRIBED_CALENDARS_PORTS says otherwise. Redirects are followed by hand (at most three) and every hop is checked again for scheme, port, embedded credentials, and address. The host is resolved first and the fetch is refused when any address is loopback, private, carrier-grade NAT, link-local (including the cloud metadata address), multicast, reserved, unique-local, Teredo, or an IPv4-mapped, SIIT, NAT64, or 6to4 form of one of those. A literal IP in the URL is checked the same way.
• Each fetch times out after 15 seconds and stops at 2 MB. The body must start with BEGIN:VCALENDAR; the Content-Type header is not trusted either way. A feed with more than 2000 VEVENTs is refused. Expanding one request is bounded too: at most 5000 occurrences, a fixed number of rule steps, and two seconds of wall-clock time; past any of these the call fails with a generic error instead of stalling the server. A parsed feed is cached in memory for five minutes.
• Event text from a feed (title, notes, location) is untrusted data, like message bodies, and every subscribed event carries untrusted: true. Read it as data, not as instructions.
• There is no tool that turns this feature on or off at runtime. Such a tool would let injected text start outbound fetches from inside the remote-safe profile, so the setting is environment-only. No tool was added and nothing was added to the remote-safe allowlist; the read tools above are already on it and stay read-only.
• Known limitation: the address check happens after DNS resolution, but the fetch still connects by hostname, so a DNS answer that changes between the lookup and the connection (DNS rebinding) is not pinned. Only subscribe to feeds from hosts you trust.

Reminders

Listing reminders reads each property for the whole list in one batch. A list of zero or one reminder is coerced to an array before it is indexed. If Reminders.app stalls, the tool says the script timed out after 90 seconds instead of reporting an iCloud network timeout. A timed-out create, update, or delete may still have been applied.

Email to calendar

Filters

bulk_move, bulk_delete, bulk_flag, search_emails, count_emails, and rules accept any combination of: sender, domain, subject, before, since, unread, flagged, larger, smaller, hasAttachment, and account.

A domain filter searches both the bare domain and @domain. iCloud's FROM search misses some senders when given only the bare domain. Subdomains are not matched: a filter of example.com does not find mail from someone@mail.example.com. When a keyword and a domain are both set, search_emails keeps both conditions.

Safe move

bulk_move, bulk_move_by_sender, bulk_move_by_domain, and archive_older_than copy, verify fingerprints in the destination, then remove the source. get_move_status and abandon_move inspect or clear the manifest.

Connections

An idle iCloud IMAP connection times out after 60 seconds of silence. The server logs the error and that tool call fails. The process stays up. Saving a draft uses its own IMAP connection and attaches the same handler.

HTTP transport

Stdio is still the default. icloud-mcp --http (or node index.js --http) also serves the same tools over MCP Streamable HTTP. The process listens on 127.0.0.1 only. ICLOUD_MCP_HTTP_PORT chooses the port (default 8787).

HTTP mode refuses to start unless both of these are true:

• Authentication is configured. Either set CF_ACCESS_TEAM_DOMAIN, CF_ACCESS_AUD, and ICLOUD_MCP_ALLOWED_EMAILS for a Cloudflare Access JWT (Cf-Access-Jwt-Assertion, checked against the team JWKS), or set ICLOUD_MCP_BEARER_TOKEN for a static bearer token used in local tests. When both are set, either one is accepted.
• ICLOUD_MCP_SEND_MODE is off, drafts, or self-only. The default on is refused.
• ICLOUD_MCP_TOOL_PROFILE is remote-safe. full is refused.

Host and Origin are checked before a request is handled, which blocks DNS rebinding. Loopback names (localhost, 127.0.0.1, ::1) are always allowed. A tunnel hostname belongs in ICLOUD_MCP_ALLOWED_HOSTS (comma-separated). A browser Origin must be a loopback origin for this port, or a value in ICLOUD_MCP_ALLOWED_ORIGINS, or http/https on an allowed host. A missing Origin header is allowed so non-browser clients can connect. The Origin value null is rejected. Authenticated requests are limited per identity (ICLOUD_MCP_RATE_LIMIT_PER_MINUTE, default 60). Requests with no credentials, and requests that fail authentication, have a separate limit of 10. That limit is per socket address. When the socket is loopback and Cloudflare Access is configured, the key is Cf-Connecting-Ip if the header is an IP address, so callers behind the tunnel do not share one bucket. Otherwise the header is ignored. An unknown or expired mcp-session-id is rejected with 404. A request with no session id that is not initialize is rejected with 400. Each session is tied to the identity that created it, dropped after 30 minutes idle, and new sessions stop once 100 are open. Logs record a reason code, not tokens or message contents.

IMAP_USER and IMAP_PASSWORD are still required to start. The send-mode values themselves are enforced by the SMTP layer when that gate is installed; this transport only refuses to listen while the mode is on.

Tests

npm test runs the offline suite only. It mocks IMAP, CardDAV, CalDAV, Reminders, and subscribed calendar feeds (the fetcher and DNS lookup are injected), and it does not contact iCloud, fetch any feed, or send mail.

npm run test:live runs the dummy-data suite in tests/live-destructive.test.js. It stays skipped unless ICLOUD_MCP_LIVE=1, IMAP_USER, and IMAP_PASSWORD are all set. It creates dummy contacts, reminders, calendar events, and messages appended into a temp folder, then deletes those dummies. It does not send mail. Set LIVE_CALENDAR to the calendar that should receive the dummy events. Calendar tests are skipped when that variable is unset. Delete tools run as a dry run first and skip the real delete unless that preview names exactly the dummies from this run.

npm run test:send runs tests/test.js. It stays skipped unless ICLOUD_MCP_SEND=1, IMAP_USER, and IMAP_PASSWORD are all set. Every message it sends goes only to the account in IMAP_USER. Reply, reply-all, and forward act on a seed that account just sent to itself, never on other inbox mail. Before each send, a guard checks every To, Cc, and Bcc recipient (case and surrounding whitespace ignored) and aborts the run if any address is anyone else.

dryRun: true on a delete, a move that removes the original, or a bulk change returns { dryRun: true, changes: [...] } and does not write. Omit it, or pass false, to perform the change.

Remote access

Stdio stays the default and is the right transport for a local client. A phone, Grok Bot, or a Claude custom connector should use the loopback HTTP listener behind Cloudflare Tunnel and Cloudflare Access. Do not expose port 8787 on the LAN or the public internet.

Cloudflare Tunnel and Access

1. Start icloud-mcp --http (or node index.js --http). The process binds to 127.0.0.1 only. ICLOUD_MCP_HTTP_PORT defaults to 8787.
2. Create a Cloudflare Tunnel that routes one hostname to http://127.0.0.1:8787.
3. Put a Cloudflare Access application on that hostname and use Managed OAuth, so the connector signs in with an identity provider instead of a shared Mac password.
4. Set CF_ACCESS_TEAM_DOMAIN to the team domain (no scheme), CF_ACCESS_AUD to the application's AUD tag, and ICLOUD_MCP_ALLOWED_EMAILS to the comma-separated addresses that may call the server.
5. The tunnel forwards Cf-Access-Jwt-Assertion. The server checks that JWT against the team JWKS at https://<team-domain>/cdn-cgi/access/certs, then requires the token email to be on the allow list.
6. Put the public hostname in ICLOUD_MCP_ALLOWED_HOSTS. Loopback names are already allowed. This is the DNS-rebinding check.

A non-interactive client such as Grok Bot cannot sign in with an identity provider. Create an Access service token for it, add a policy with the Service Auth action that includes the token, and put the token's Client ID in ICLOUD_MCP_ALLOWED_SERVICE_TOKENS (comma-separated). A service token JWT has no email claim; its common_name claim is the Client ID. A JWT with no email is accepted only when common_name exactly matches an entry on that list. When the list is unset or empty, a JWT with no email is rejected, which is the previous behavior. Every other check still applies: signature, RS256, issuer, audience, exp, nbf, key rotation, Host and Origin, the remote-safe profile, and the send-mode gate. Service-token requests are rate limited by common_name. The Client Secret stays with the client; the server never sees or stores it. CF_ACCESS_TEAM_DOMAIN, CF_ACCESS_AUD, and ICLOUD_MCP_ALLOWED_EMAILS are still required to start.

ICLOUD_MCP_BEARER_TOKEN is a static bearer token for a local test client. It is not the remote credential. When Access and the bearer token are both set, either one is accepted.

HTTP mode refuses to start unless authentication is configured, ICLOUD_MCP_SEND_MODE is off, drafts, or self-only, and ICLOUD_MCP_TOOL_PROFILE is remote-safe. The default send mode on and the full profile are refused. A missing Origin header is allowed. The Origin value null, and any other Origin that is not on the allow list, are rejected. Authenticated requests are limited per identity. Requests that have no credentials use a separate limit of 10 per address, so an unauthenticated flood does not consume the caller's budget.

macOS LaunchAgent

Reminders uses JavaScript for Automation and needs a logged-in GUI session. Run the server as a LaunchAgent in ~/Library/LaunchAgents, not as a LaunchDaemon. A daemon starts outside that session and cannot talk to Reminders.

Store the app-specific password in the macOS Keychain (service icloud-mcp, or ICLOUD_MCP_KEYCHAIN_SERVICE) instead of in the plist. IMAP_PASS is only a fallback when IMAP_PASSWORD is unset. node mcp-call.mjs loads a .env file when one exists and otherwise uses the process environment.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>com.example.icloud-mcp</string>
  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
  <array>
    <string>/usr/local/bin/node</string>
    <string>/Users/you/icloud-mcp/index.js</string>
    <string>--http</string>
  </array>
  <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
  <dict>
    <key>IMAP_USER</key>
    <string>you@icloud.com</string>
    <key>ICLOUD_MCP_SEND_MODE</key>
    <string>drafts</string>
    <key>ICLOUD_MCP_TOOL_PROFILE</key>
    <string>remote-safe</string>
    <key>CF_ACCESS_TEAM_DOMAIN</key>
    <string>team.cloudflareaccess.com</string>
    <key>CF_ACCESS_AUD</key>
    <string>access-aud-tag</string>
    <key>ICLOUD_MCP_ALLOWED_EMAILS</key>
    <string>you@example.com</string>
    <key>ICLOUD_MCP_ALLOWED_HOSTS</key>
    <string>mail.example.com</string>
  </dict>
  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <true/>
  <key>KeepAlive</key>
  <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Using icloud-mcp with Grok Bot (Mac host and phone)

This walks through hosting the server on an always-on Mac and connecting Grok Bot (and Claude) to it. Everything below uses placeholders: example.com, <TEAM_DOMAIN>, <AUD_TAG>, <CLIENT_ID>, <APPLE_ID>. Substitute your own values locally and never commit them.

Prerequisites

• A Mac that stays on and logged in to a GUI session (see the LaunchAgent note above).
• Node (see Prerequisites) and this repo checked out, with npm install done.
• cloudflared: brew install cloudflared.
• A Cloudflare account with a domain and Zero Trust enabled.

1. Tunnel

Create a remotely managed tunnel in Zero Trust (Networks, Tunnels). Add a public hostname such as icloud-mcp.example.com routed to http://127.0.0.1:8787, and keep the catch-all rule as http_status:404. Create a proxied CNAME for the hostname pointing at <tunnel-id>.cfargotunnel.com. Copy the tunnel token and treat it as a password.

2. Access application

Create a self-hosted Access application on that hostname. Add an Allow policy that includes only your email address, use one-time PIN login, and set the session duration to 24 hours. Copy the application's AUD tag; it is CF_ACCESS_AUD (<AUD_TAG>). Your team domain (<TEAM_DOMAIN>.cloudflareaccess.com) is CF_ACCESS_TEAM_DOMAIN.

3. Interactive clients (Claude)

Enable Managed OAuth on the Access application and add the client's callback URL to the allowed redirect URIs. For Claude that is https://claude.ai/api/mcp/auth_callback. In Claude, add a custom connector with the URL https://icloud-mcp.example.com/mcp and sign in with the one-time PIN.

4. Non-interactive clients (Grok Bot)

Grok Bot's own OAuth callback is not known, so it cannot be added to the allowed redirect URIs. Use an Access service token instead:

1. In Zero Trust, create a service token (Access, Service Auth). The Client Secret is shown once. Store it like a password.
2. Add a policy to the Access application with the action Service Auth that includes that token. An Allow policy for your email does not cover service tokens.
3. Set ICLOUD_MCP_ALLOWED_SERVICE_TOKENS=<CLIENT_ID> on the server (see Cloudflare Tunnel and Access above).
4. In Grok Bot, add a custom MCP server with the URL https://icloud-mcp.example.com/mcp and two headers: CF-Access-Client-Id: <CLIENT_ID> and CF-Access-Client-Secret: <the secret>.

To revoke, delete the token in Zero Trust (or remove it from the Service Auth policy); requests with it fail at Cloudflare immediately. To rotate, create a new token, add it to the policy, update ICLOUD_MCP_ALLOWED_SERVICE_TOKENS and the Grok Bot headers, restart the server, then delete the old token.

5. Mac setup

Store the app-specific password in the Keychain. The command prompts for it, so it never lands in shell history or a file:

security add-generic-password -s icloud-mcp -a <APPLE_ID> -w

Save the tunnel token to a file only you can read, then run two LaunchAgents in ~/Library/LaunchAgents. Never put the app-specific password in a plist.

mkdir -p ~/.icloud-mcp && chmod 700 ~/.icloud-mcp
# paste the tunnel token into this file, then:
chmod 600 ~/.icloud-mcp/tunnel-token

com.example.cloudflared.plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>com.example.cloudflared</string>
  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
  <array>
    <string>/opt/homebrew/bin/cloudflared</string>
    <string>tunnel</string>
    <string>run</string>
    <string>--token-file</string>
    <string>/Users/you/.icloud-mcp/tunnel-token</string>
  </array>
  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <true/>
  <key>KeepAlive</key>
  <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

com.example.icloud-mcp.plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>com.example.icloud-mcp</string>
  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
  <array>
    <string>/usr/local/bin/node</string>
    <string>index.js</string>
    <string>--http</string>
  </array>
  <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
  <string>/Users/you/icloud-mcp</string>
  <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
  <dict>
    <key>IMAP_USER</key>
    <string><APPLE_ID></string>
    <key>ICLOUD_MCP_SEND_MODE</key>
    <string>drafts</string>
    <key>ICLOUD_MCP_TOOL_PROFILE</key>
    <string>remote-safe</string>
    <key>CF_ACCESS_TEAM_DOMAIN</key>
    <string><TEAM_DOMAIN>.cloudflareaccess.com</string>
    <key>CF_ACCESS_AUD</key>
    <string><AUD_TAG></string>
    <key>ICLOUD_MCP_ALLOWED_EMAILS</key>
    <string>you@example.com</string>
    <key>ICLOUD_MCP_ALLOWED_HOSTS</key>
    <string>icloud-mcp.example.com</string>
    <key>ICLOUD_MCP_ALLOWED_SERVICE_TOKENS</key>
    <string><CLIENT_ID></string>
  </dict>
  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <true/>
  <key>KeepAlive</key>
  <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Load each agent with launchctl bootstrap gui/$(id -u) ~/Library/LaunchAgents/<file>.plist. To restart after a change, run launchctl bootout gui/$(id -u) ~/Library/LaunchAgents/<file>.plist, wait a few seconds, then bootstrap again.

6. Optional: subscribed calendars

To make subscribed (ICS) calendars readable through the same server, see Subscribed calendars under Calendar and add ICLOUD_MCP_SUBSCRIBED_CALENDARS=on to the server's environment.

7. Verify

• An unauthenticated request returns 401: curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' -X POST https://icloud-mcp.example.com/mcp
• An initialize request with the two service-token headers returns 200:

curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' -X POST https://icloud-mcp.example.com/mcp \
  -H 'CF-Access-Client-Id: <CLIENT_ID>' \
  -H 'CF-Access-Client-Secret: <CLIENT_SECRET>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-03-26","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"check","version":"0"}}}'

• Then ask Grok Bot to run list_calendars.

Phone

The Grok Bot connector is saved on your Grok Bot account, not in one conversation, so it also works from the phone. The server runs on the Mac, so the Mac must be awake, online, and logged in. When it sleeps, tool calls fail until it wakes.

Security notes

• Keep ICLOUD_MCP_SEND_MODE=drafts and ICLOUD_MCP_TOOL_PROFILE=remote-safe. Do not enable send mode remotely.
• Never expose port 8787 on the LAN or the public internet; only the tunnel should reach it.
• Keep the tunnel token, service token secret, app-specific password, and subscription URLs out of the repo, issues, and chats.
• This repo is public. Never commit plists, .env files, or other config with real values.

Recommended environment

Use ICLOUD_MCP_SEND_MODE=off or drafts for a remote connector. off blocks compose_email, reply_to_email, and forward_email. drafts saves a draft instead of sending. self-only sends only when every To, Cc, and Bcc is the authenticated account. Unset means on, which is the local stdio default and is refused in HTTP mode.

Use ICLOUD_MCP_TOOL_PROFILE=remote-safe. That profile is an allowlist of read, search, draft, and calendar or reminder create and edit tools. A tool that is not on the list is hidden, including tools added later. Leave ICLOUD_MCP_ALLOW_BULK unset so any bulk tool that is on the list runs as a dry run.

Prompt injection

Message bodies, subjects, and addresses are untrusted data. A sender can put instructions in a message that a model may follow. Read tool output as data, not as a new task. Send mode off or drafts, plus the remote-safe profile, limits what those instructions can cause. They do not make the text trustworthy.

Environment variables

Security

Credentials stay in your local MCP client config. The server runs on your machine. Revoke an app-specific password at appleid.apple.com.

Send mode

ICLOUD_MCP_SEND_MODE controls SMTP sending. Leave it unset for local stdio: the default is on, and compose_email, reply_to_email, and forward_email send mail as before. The check lives in the SMTP functions, so those tools cannot skip it.

Any other value is an error and nothing is sent. Recipient groups, addresses that do not parse to a single mailbox, and a CR, LF, or other control character in a header field are refused in every mode. The refusal does not include the address. A subject copied from the original message has CR, LF, and tab runs collapsed to a space, and other controls removed, before that check. A subject the caller supplies is still refused when it contains a control character.

License

MIT