✅ RemindersBridge
Use your Apple Reminders inside ChatGPT — through your own Mac.
RemindersBridge is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector that lets ChatGPT work with your Apple Reminders. It never uploads your reminders to a third party — every action runs on your own Mac through a tiny local agent. The cloud piece is only a stateless relay that shuttles requests between ChatGPT and your Mac.
ChatGPT ──OAuth──► RemindersBridge relay ──job queue──► apple-reminders-agent ──► Reminders.app
(connector) (Vercel, stateless) (your Mac, polls & executes) (on your Mac)
Your Mac is the only place your reminders are ever read or written. The relay stores only short-lived job payloads and your account record; it never sees a reminder unless a job is in flight, and jobs expire in seconds.
For users — 3 steps
1. Create your account at remindersbridge.vercel.app and generate a pairing code.
2. Install the Mac agent (needs Node 18+):
npx apple-reminders-agent pair <YOUR-CODE> # link this Mac to your account
npx apple-reminders-agent install # keep it running on every restart
The first time it touches Reminders, macOS asks "Terminal wants to control Reminders" — click OK (one time).
3. Connect ChatGPT: Settings → Plugins → turn on Developer mode (Security & login) → Create a custom plugin → paste the MCP Server URL https://remindersbridge.vercel.app/mcp → Authentication OAuth → sign in & Allow.
That's it. In a new chat: "Search my Apple Reminders for the dentist appointment" or "Add oat milk to my Groceries list, due tomorrow."
Your Mac must be awake with the agent running.
npx apple-reminders-agent installmakes it start automatically at login and restart if it ever crashes.
Managing the agent
npx apple-reminders-agent status # is it paired & reachable?
npx apple-reminders-agent logs # recent activity
npx apple-reminders-agent uninstall # stop auto-start
What ChatGPT can do
| Tool | Action |
|---|---|
search | Search reminders by keyword |
fetch | Fetch full details of one reminder by id |
list_lists | List all reminder lists with open (incomplete) counts |
list_reminders | List reminders (optionally filter to one list, or include completed) |
get_reminder | Read a reminder by id or name |
create_reminder | Create a reminder (name, optional notes, due date, target list) |
complete_reminder | Mark a reminder complete (or reopen it) |
update_reminder | Edit a reminder's name, notes, or due date |
Self-hosting
You can run your own relay so nothing depends on the hosted instance.
Prereqs: a Vercel account and a Supabase project (free tiers are fine).
- Storage — in your Supabase project's SQL editor, run
supabase/schema.sql. It creates a tiny Redis-shaped KV + queue surface (nb_*functions) with RLS on. - Deploy the
server/directory to Vercel. - Set env vars (see
server/.env.example):SUPABASE_URL,SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY— your project + service-role keyJWT_SECRET—openssl rand -hex 32
- Verify:
curl https://YOUR-APP.vercel.app/api/health→redisConfigured,redisOk,jwtSecretSetalltrue. - Point the agent at it:
npx apple-reminders-agent pair <CODE> --server https://YOUR-APP.vercel.app.
How it works
- Auth — OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and Dynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591). ChatGPT registers itself, the user signs in on the RemindersBridge consent page, and ChatGPT gets a scoped MCP access token. JWTs are HMAC-signed; three kinds (
session,agent,mcp) with distinct privileges. Optional email verification via Resend (RESEND_API_KEY); off unless configured, and enforcement is opt-in (REQUIRE_EMAIL_VERIFICATION). - Relay — MCP tool call → job pushed to
jobs:<user>(TTL ≤ the caller's wait window, so an abandoned job can't run late) → the Mac agent (holding a hanging long-poll) is handed the job within ~200ms, executes it, pushes the result → the MCP handler returns it. The long-poll means jobs are delivered on arrival rather than on a fixed interval, so relay overhead is ~300ms instead of ~1s. The agent is considered "online" only while it's actively connected. - Agent — a dependency-free Node CLI. Tools run via JXA (
osascript -l JavaScript) against Reminders.app; arguments are passed as JSON over argv (never shell-interpolated). A macOS LaunchAgent keeps it alive across logins and crashes.
Repository layout
server/ Vercel functions: OAuth + MCP endpoint + relay (deploy this)
agent/ apple-reminders-agent — the npm-published Mac CLI (users npx this)
kit/ Browser automations: register the dev-mode connector AND
fill the OpenAI directory submission (see kit/README.md)
supabase/ schema.sql for self-hosting the storage
test/ end-to-end OAuth + MCP integration test
Development
# server
cd server && cp .env.example .env.local # fill in, then: vercel dev
# end-to-end test against a live deployment (reads ../.env.local)
node test/e2e-oauth.mjs
# agent unit tests
node --test agent/test-agent-unit.mjs
Security & privacy
- Reminders are read/written only on your Mac. The relay never persists reminder content — job payloads live in Redis-shaped storage with a short TTL and are deleted on delivery.
- The agent token is stored at
~/.remindersbridge-agent.json(mode600). - No secrets are committed; see
.gitignoreand the.env.examplefiles. - Write tools are marked destructive so ChatGPT asks before changing a reminder.
License
MIT © Isaiah Dupree