Shortcuts MCP Server

Shortcuts MCP server is a locally run integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides access to Apple Shortcuts functionality. This server allows AI assistants to list, view, and run your shortcuts through the MCP interface.

What the assistant can call

Once Shortcuts is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:

• run — Run a shortcut
• name — The name of the shortcut to run (string, required)
• list — List your shortcuts
• show-identifiers — Whether to show the identifiers of the shortcuts. (boolean, optional)
• view — View a shortcut in Shortcuts app
• Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server

Setting it up

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client.

Configuration and credentials

• macOS 14.5 or later - Xcode 16.x or later - mise

Choosing this one

Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Shortcuts's toolset — run, name, list and 3 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by artemnovichkov; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.

Before you rely on it

• It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
• MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the shortcuts mcp server does with a few real requests.