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Ask Grok Bot to connect your Mac's Apple apps: Reminders, Calendar, Notes, Contacts and Messages

@madebydia had put a lot of effort into connecting their Apple apps to other assistants. Following an idea from @Phil_Holland, they sent Grok Bot @Phil_Holland's post and asked for something like it.

Reported by @madebydiaon x.com

A prompt to try

Make me a skill that can read and update my Reminders, Calendar, Notes and Contacts on this Mac, and read my Messages. Never send a message without showing me the exact wording first. Test it on [ONE APP] and tell me which macOS permissions it will need.

Fill in anything in [brackets] before you send it. Anything that spends money, sends a message or signs something should stay behind your own approval.

How it went, step by step

  1. 01Share an example of the setup you want with your Grok Bot and ask it to build something like it.
  2. 02Let it create the skill, then approve the macOS permission prompt for each Apple app the first time it is used.
  3. 03Grant Full Disk Access to the Grok Bot app only if you want it to read Messages.
  4. 04Test on one app first, such as Reminders, and approve the exact wording of any text before it is sent.
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