Frequently Asked Questions

Local tools run on your Mac or Windows PC; available integrations vary by platform. Your chosen AI provider and optional cloud connectors receive the content needed for your requests under their own terms. A desktop AI app may also use a cloud model.

Yes. LMCP reads and sends Teams chats and channels through Microsoft Graph, using the work or school Microsoft 365 account you connect once, on Mac and Windows. You do not register an Azure app or create API keys. Personal Microsoft accounts do not have Teams, and reading channel messages can require your organization's administrator to approve a permission.

Compliance depends on your full workflow, policies and provider agreements. LMCP alone does not guarantee GDPR or other regulatory compliance. Your chosen AI provider and optional cloud connectors receive the content needed for your requests under their own terms. A desktop AI app may also use a cloud model.

Local tools run on your Mac or Windows PC; available integrations vary by platform. Tools that read locally available data can work offline. Cloud models, connected services, sending and updates require a network connection.

LMCP can work with more than one of your accounts at the same time: several Microsoft 365, Telegram and WhatsApp accounts on Mac and Windows, and every account you've added to Apple Mail on a Mac. Keep work and personal side by side; your AI picks the account for each request.

LMCP runs its tools on your own Mac or Windows PC. What leaves your computer is what your AI asks for: the results go to the AI provider you use (Claude, ChatGPT or another), under that provider's terms. The Cloud Relay, which you can turn off at any time, carries requests and results between a web AI and your computer over an encrypted connection. Each app LMCP uses needs its own permission, which you can see and revoke at any time, and you can turn any service off. Tools that send, change or delete data are marked as such, and many show a preview until you confirm; check how a tool behaves before you authorize a change.

On your computer. LMCP runs on your Mac or PC, and its tools read and act there, in your apps. With a desktop AI app such as Claude Desktop or Cursor, tool calls do not go through our servers. Cloud access is only for a web AI such as ChatGPT or Claude.ai: it reaches your computer through the LMCP relay only after you connect it and approve the connection on your computer, and you can turn it off at any time. The AI you use receives the results it asks for, under its provider’s terms. Your LMCP account links this computer and your plan: it keeps your email, your computers and how many actions you use, never the content of your apps.

LMCP reads your email on your own Mac or Windows PC and does not copy your mailbox to our servers. What leaves your computer is what your AI asks for: an email it reads goes to the AI provider you use (Claude, ChatGPT or another), under that provider’s terms. With a desktop AI app such as Claude Desktop or Cursor, tool calls do not go through our servers. The Cloud Relay is only for web AIs. The Cloud Relay starts off: it turns on when you connect a web AI (ChatGPT, Claude.ai) or turn it on yourself in LMCP. On Windows, since version 3.0.441; before that, it started on. LMCP’s diagnostic data covers versions, errors and which tools ran, never the content of your emails.

Tools that read locally available data can work offline. Cloud models, connected services, sending and updates require a network connection.

240+ MCP tools across 25+ categories on Mac and Windows (some apps exist on one platform only): Email, Calendar, Contacts, Microsoft Teams, Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Messages, OneDrive, Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, Reminders, Notes, Notion, Proton Mail, Thunderbird, Obsidian, Music, Finder, OmniFocus, Zoom, Stocks, ServiceNow, Image Playground, NordVPN, Weather, Microsoft To Do, and diagnostics.

Go to https://local-mcp.com/get and download the installer for your system. It installs the signed app (notarized on macOS) and detects and sets up the desktop AI apps it supports, automatically where it can. Restart your AI client after installing. For ChatGPT or Claude.ai web, add https://www.local-mcp.com/mcp as a custom connector and authorize via the OAuth popup.

On Mac, run: curl -fsSL https://local-mcp.com/uninstall | bash. On Windows, open Settings > Apps, select LMCP (Local MCP Server) and choose Uninstall. Either way, it removes: • the app and its programs • what starts LMCP on its own: the LaunchAgent on Mac, the startup shortcuts on Windows • LMCP’s settings and logs • the permissions you saved, such as tools you always allow, and on Mac the privacy permissions you granted LMCP • your recipes • this computer’s identity: its ID and the keys and tokens kept in the Mac Keychain or the Windows Credential Manager • LMCP’s entry in Claude Desktop, Cursor and the other AI apps it had configured What remains is a small .uninstalled marker, so a leftover copy does not start again: on Mac in ~/.local/share/local-mcp and ~/Library/Application Support/Local MCP; on Windows in %LOCALAPPDATA%\local-mcp-uninstalled, with nothing left in %LOCALAPPDATA%\local-mcp. If something cannot be removed, such as an identity in a locked Keychain, the uninstaller says so. One step is yours: the uninstaller cannot reach ChatGPT or Claude.ai. If you added LMCP there as a connector, remove it in Claude.ai under Customize → Connectors and in ChatGPT at chatgpt.com/plugins. Until then it stays listed but no longer reaches your computer. Uninstalling LMCP does not remove your email or calendar accounts.

Cursor requires Agent mode to expose MCP tools. Open a new Composer window (⌘I) and make sure the mode selector at the top shows "Agent" — not "Chat" or "Edit". In Chat and Edit modes, Cursor does not load MCP servers at all. Once you switch to Agent mode, LMCP's 240+ tools become available immediately. You can verify by typing "what tools do you have?" in Agent mode.

Yes — validated end-to-end. In Claude.ai open Customize → Connectors (claude.ai/customize/connectors) → Add → Add custom connector, name it LMCP and paste https://www.local-mcp.com/mcp (OAuth: RFC 8414 + PKCE). Then click Connect and approve in the dialog that opens on your computer; the 240+ tools load. Step-by-step guide: https://www.local-mcp.com/guides/claudeai-web-mac

Yes, with the same OAuth flow as Claude.ai web. In a desktop browser go to chatgpt.com/plugins, click Add and choose the option to add a custom MCP server, name it LMCP and paste https://www.local-mcp.com/mcp as the Server URL, with OAuth. No Developer mode needed; on workspace plans an admin must enable connectors first. Setup guide: https://www.local-mcp.com/guides/chatgpt-mac

macOS 13 Ventura or later on Apple Silicon or Intel, and 64-bit Windows 10 or later. Available tools differ by platform because LMCP integrates with the native apps installed on each computer.

Yes, through the Dropbox desktop app. There is no Dropbox account to connect: the Dropbox app keeps your files in a folder on your computer, and your AI reads and searches that folder with LMCP’s file tools, like any other folder. On Mac it is in Finder’s sidebar (usually ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox, or ~/Dropbox in older installs); on Windows it is usually C:\Users\<you>\Dropbox. A file kept online-only may need to be made available offline first. Then just ask, for example: “find the latest contract in my Dropbox”.