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Connect Claude to Apple Shortcuts

Yes, Claude can run your Apple Shortcuts. Pomeroy connects Claude to Apple Shortcuts on your Mac, so Claude can list the shortcuts you have made and run one by name when you ask. Pomeroy only runs shortcuts you already built; it cannot create or change them.

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What can you ask Claude to do in Apple Shortcuts?

  • “Run my Wind Down shortcut.”
  • “What shortcuts do I have?”
  • “Run Morning Summary and read me the result.”
  • “Run my Add Expense shortcut with ‘12.40 lunch’.”
  • “Run my Daily Journal shortcut with today’s highlights as the input.”

What Claude can do in Apple Shortcuts

  • List your shortcuts by name.
  • Run one by its exact name and hand back whatever it produces.
  • Pass a line of text into a shortcut as its input.

What Pomeroy will not do in Apple Shortcuts

  • Create, edit, or delete a shortcut.
  • Run a shortcut you have not already made.
  • Leave a shortcut waiting: one that stops to ask for a click is ended after two minutes.

A shortcut you built can do things Pomeroy will not do itself, like sending a message. That power is yours, set up in the Shortcuts app; Pomeroy only starts the shortcut you name.

How to connect Claude to Apple Shortcuts

Pomeroy works inside Anthropic’s Claude Desktop, which is free. Get Claude Desktop first if you do not have it yet.

  1. 1

    Download Pomeroy.

    Open the download, drag Pomeroy into Applications, and open it. Pomeroy adds an icon to your menu bar and opens a setup window listing every app it can connect. They all start switched off.

  2. 2

    Switch on Shortcuts.

    Pomeroy runs your shortcuts through the shortcuts command that ships with macOS, and only ever by the exact name you ask for.

  3. 3

    Set up the Claude extension.

    Press Set up Claude extension and Claude Desktop asks to install it, with no file to find.

  4. 4

    Ask Claude.

    Try “Run my Wind Down shortcut.” and a real answer comes back.

Can Claude run my Apple Shortcuts?

Yes. Once you switch Shortcuts on in Pomeroy, Claude can list your shortcuts by name, run one, pass text in, and read back whatever the shortcut produces.

Can Claude create a shortcut?

No. Claude can only run shortcuts you have already made, by their exact names. A near miss runs nothing and lists the closest candidates instead.

What if a shortcut needs me to click something?

It is stopped after two minutes. Pomeroy will not leave a shortcut waiting for a click in the background.

Try Claude with Apple Shortcuts.

Get 50 actions every week. No Pomeroy account or payment card required. Requires macOS 15 or later.

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