apple-tools: Seven Apple Apps, One Command Line

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0600

macOS 27 shipped the feature I’d been waiting years for: a semantic index of my life, built on my own machine, covering mail and messages and notes and calendar, with a Siri able to reason across it instead of pattern-matching one app at a time. Personal context, on-device, nothing uploaded. Exactly the right architecture, and I was genuinely excited about it.

Then I tried to use it. The index is real and it’s sitting on my SSD, and nothing outside Apple can get at it. No CLI, no SDK, no API. Not even an entitlement to apply for and be refused. The door isn’t locked so much as it was never cut into the wall.

Cli on boulder dan

apple-tools: Seven Apple Apps, One Command Line