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io.github.chrischall/apple-icloud-mcpv0.1.0Maps & Location

Unofficial: Apple Music, iCloud Calendar/Contacts/Mail, Apple Maps and WeatherKit, no Mac needed

The current version, v0.1.0, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-27. It is distributed as apple-icloud-mcp on npm, filed under Maps & Location by this index, and declares 30 environment variables. Removals and unreachable sources are measured across every server this index tracks, contract drift across the servers that answer in consecutive snapshots; the index's current counts put this record in context.

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Trust verdict · v1 advisory · method
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Environment variables
APPLE_TEAM_ID

Your Apple Developer Team ID (10 characters). Needed for Apple Music (official API), Apple Maps and WeatherKit.

APPLE_KEY_ID

Key ID of a private key created in Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles → Keys with Media Services (MusicKit), MapKit JS and/or WeatherKit enabled.

APPLE_PRIVATE_KEY
secret

Contents of that key's .p8 file (PEM; one-line values with \n escapes and base64 are accepted).

APPLE_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH

Local installs only: a path to the .p8 file instead of APPLE_PRIVATE_KEY.

APPLE_MUSIC_KEY_ID

Optional per-service override of APPLE_KEY_ID for Apple Music (pair with APPLE_MUSIC_PRIVATE_KEY).

APPLE_MUSIC_PRIVATE_KEY
secret

Optional per-service override of APPLE_PRIVATE_KEY for Apple Music.

APPLE_MAPS_KEY_ID

Optional per-service override of APPLE_KEY_ID for Apple Maps.

APPLE_MAPS_PRIVATE_KEY
secret

Optional per-service override of APPLE_PRIVATE_KEY for Apple Maps.

APPLE_WEATHERKIT_KEY_ID

Optional per-service override of APPLE_KEY_ID for WeatherKit.

APPLE_WEATHERKIT_PRIVATE_KEY
secret

Optional per-service override of APPLE_PRIVATE_KEY for WeatherKit.

APPLE_WEATHERKIT_SERVICE_ID

WeatherKit only: the Services ID registered for WeatherKit (e.g. com.example.weather).

APPLE_MUSIC_DEVELOPER_TOKEN
secret

Optional: a pre-minted Apple Music developer token (JWT) instead of signing one from the key above.

APPLE_MUSIC_USER_TOKEN
secret

Music User Token for your library (official API), from a one-time MusicKit sign-in: `npx apple-icloud-mcp music-auth`. Without the Apple Developer key, ask the owner for a developer token (music-auth --print-developer-token) and run it with APPLE_MUSIC_DEVELOPER_TOKEN set. Lasts ~6 months.

APPLE_MUSIC_WEB_USER_TOKEN
secret

Opt-in web-player mode (no developer account needed; unlocks rename/delete/remove/reorder): the media-user-token cookie from a signed-in music.apple.com tab.

APPLE_MUSIC_WEB_DEVELOPER_TOKEN
secret

Optional override for the web-player developer token (normally read automatically from music.apple.com).

APPLE_MUSIC_STOREFRONT

Two-letter Apple Music storefront (e.g. us, gb). Default: your account's storefront, else us.

ICLOUD_USERNAME

Your Apple ID email, for iCloud Calendar, Contacts and Mail.

ICLOUD_APP_PASSWORD
secret

An app-specific password from appleid.apple.com → Sign-In and Security → App-Specific Passwords (NOT your Apple ID password).

ICLOUD_MAIL_ADDRESS

Your @icloud.com address, only if your Apple ID email is not an iCloud address (needed for Mail).

ICLOUD_DEFAULT_CALENDAR

Calendar new events go to when none is named (default: the first writable event calendar).

APPLE_WRITE_MODE

"none" = read-only tools; "additive" = also create/append, never modify, delete or send; "all" = everything (default). Unrecognized values fail closed to "none".

APPLE_SERVICES

Comma-separated services to enable (music, calendar, contacts, mail, maps, weather, itunes). Default: all.

DISPLAY_TZ

IANA time zone (e.g. America/New_York) for displayed times and for dates you give without an offset. Set this on a hosted server, which runs in UTC.

APPLE_UNITS

"metric" (default) or "imperial" units for weather (Maps distances always show both).

APPLE_STATE_CACHE

Set to false to write nothing under $MCP_DATA_DIR/.apple-icloud-mcp: no web-player token or iCloud discovery cache, and the rejected-password latch and spent confirmation tokens then last only as long as the process.

APPLE_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS

Per-request timeout in milliseconds (default 30000).

APPLE_DEBUG_LOG

Set to 1 to log every upstream request line to stderr (credentials redacted).

MCP_CONFIRM_MODE

How confirm-gated writes (send mail, deletes, removing tracks, invitations) behave on a client with no prompt, like claude.ai: "ask-user" (default: preview + confirmToken, the model must get your OK), "auto", or "refuse". Unknown values mean refuse.

MCP_CONFIRM_TTL_SECONDS

Lifetime of a confirmToken in seconds (default 600).

MCP_CONFIRM_SECRET
secret

Signing key for confirmTokens. Random per process by default; set it so a token issued just before a restart or redeploy still works (spent tokens are recorded on disk, so none can be replayed).

MCP quality score · maturity, not trust · methodology
freshness
25
completeness
10
installability
25
documentation
15
stability
5
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