local-mcp

Our take

Proprietary macOS menu-bar app exposing a self-reported 183 tools across 22 app categories — Mail, Calendar, iMessage, Teams, Slack, WhatsApp, Finder, Chrome, Office, ServiceNow — to Claude, Cursor, and (via an opt-in cloud relay) web ChatGPT. Be clear about what this repo is: a releases/marketing repo where server.js is an auto-generated stub for directory scanners and the real server is a closed-source native binary installed via curl-pipe-bash, so none of the code touching your email and messages is auditable. The 'nothing leaves your Mac' and confirmation-before-write claims are self-reported, and the ~4,900 npm downloads/week deserve skepticism given 456 versions published in about 14 weeks (30+ releases/week inflates registry-mirror traffic). Actively developed by essentially one person since March 2026, free with no paid tier yet, macOS 13+ only. For Mac users who want deep native-app automation and are comfortable granting an unauditable binary access to their email, iMessage, and files — that trust trade-off is the whole decision.

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Verification record

last verified

10 days ago

github stars

36

last commit

12 days ago

archived

no

license

NOASSERTION

npm

local-mcp

downloads / wk

5.3k

latest version

3.0.369

in registry since

2026-07-26

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