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Create Apple Shortcuts with Claude Code or Codex - MacStories
Today, I’m pleased to introduce something I’ve been working on for the past six months: Shortcuts Playground, a plugin for Claude Code and Codex that can create any shortcut for Apple’s Shortcuts app using natural language. With Shortcuts Playground, you can simply prompt Claude Code or Codex with a sentence requesting a shortcut of any kind; a few minutes later, you’ll end up with a real shortcut in Finder, ready to be imported into the Shortcuts app. It’s as simple as that. Shortcuts Playground is free and open source: anyone can download the plugin from this GitHub repo, where I extensively documented how it works behind the scenes and where you can also inspect the code yourself. Just point your preferred desktop agent to the repo, and it’ll find the plugin marketplace to install it for you. You can also check out the dedicated mini-site we launched for it at macstories.net/shortcuts-playground. For Club MacStories+ and Premier members, I’m also releasing Shortcuts Playground as a generative shortcut. It’s quite meta: once you have the main plugin installed on a Mac, you can use a shortcut to make more shortcuts and install them directly on an iPhone, iPad, or other Mac. The Shortcuts Playground shortcut is highly customizable, and I’ve shared a detailed guide for Plus and Premier members here. As part of this announcement, we’re also launching the completely redesigned MacStories Shortcuts Archive. The new archive is easier to browse with new categories and filters, and it also includes 100 shortcuts that were entirely generated by Shortcuts Playground and verified by me. I figured that it’d be nice to offer concrete evidence of Shortcuts Playground’s capabilities; I think 100 shortcuts should do the trick. You can read more about the new MacStories Shortcuts Archive here. How Shortcuts Playground Started, and Why I’m Doing This Shortcuts Playground started as a fork of an open-source skill; since January, I iterated on it every single day with Claude and Codex, reverse-engineered how Shortcuts actions work on Apple’s latest operating systems, and ended up creating something vastly more complex and reliable than the original skill I discovered at the beginning of the year. Eventually, I landed on a native plugin format that is especially nice to use in Claude Code since it supports dedicated commands, agents, and hooks. I tested Shortcuts Playground with hundreds of shortcuts. Like any other non-deterministic output generated by agents, it does not g...
Club MacStories Shortcuts Playground Remote: The Generative ...
After months of work and debugging, I launched Shortcuts Playground, a plugin for Claude Code and Codex that lets you create shortcuts for Apple’s Shortcuts app with natural language. The plugin is free and open source, and it can be installed in your favorite agent from this repo. You can read more about it in... Members-Only Content Join Club MacStories for weekly newsletters, exclusive stories, automation lessons, RSS feeds, Discord access, and more. See Plans Already a member? Sign in Federico is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of MacStories, where he writes about Apple with a focus on apps, developers, iPad, and iOS productivity. He founded MacStories in April 2009 and has been writing about Apple since. Federico is also the co-host of AppStories, a weekly podcast exploring the world of apps, Unwind, a fun exploration of media and more, and NPC: Next Portable Console, a show about portable gaming and the handheld revolution.
New AI features in iOS 27: Image generator for wallpaper, Shortcuts ...
... to create wallpapers via natural language for the first time. The function is apparently not planned for macOS 27. Videos by heise. mehr Videos. c't 3003 ...
Shortcuts with AI and Generated Wallpapers Coming in iOS 27
... to create a custom one with the use of Image Playground. Apple has ... Shortcuts will get a big upgrade where users are able to use their natural language ...
