Route Imessage Mail Notes Reminders And Calendar Tasks Into Approved Ai Cli Workflows With Apple Flow

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name: "Route iMessage, Mail, Notes, Reminders, and Calendar tasks into approved AI CLI workflows with Apple Flow"
slug: "route-imessage-mail-notes-reminders-and-calendar-tasks-into-approved-ai-cli-workflows-with-apple-flow"
description: "Use Apple-native inboxes and event surfaces as a gated control plane for local AI work, with sender allowlists, approval prompts, and workspace boundaries."
github_stars: 105
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/dkyazzentwatwa/apple-flow"
author: "dkyazzentwatwa"
publisher_type: "individual"
category: "Calendar, Email & Productivity"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "dkyazzentwatwa/apple-flow"
  github_stars: 105
---

# Route iMessage, Mail, Notes, Reminders, and Calendar tasks into approved AI CLI workflows with Apple Flow

Use Apple-native inboxes and event surfaces as a gated control plane for local AI work, with sender allowlists, approval prompts, and workspace boundaries.

## Prerequisites

macOS, Apple apps access, one supported AI CLI such as Codex, Claude, Gemini, Cline, or Kilo, Python 3.11, Node.js

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- brew install python@3.11 node
- npm install -g @openai/codex
- npm install -g @google/gemini-cli
- npm install -g cline

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- [![Python 3.11+](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.11+-blue.svg)](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
- ### 1) Prerequisites
- Homebrew + Python 3.11 + Node

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- macOS with iMessage signed in
- 10 minutes
- bash

- Source: https://github.com/dkyazzentwatwa/apple-flow
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dkyazzentwatwa/apple-flow/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://github.com/dkyazzentwatwa/apple-flow#readme

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/route-imessage-mail-notes-reminders-and-calendar-tasks-into-approved-ai-cli-workflows-with-apple-flow/)