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Connect your AI assistant to Apple Shortcuts

Yes, your AI assistant can run your Apple Shortcuts. Pomeroy connects your AI assistant to Apple Shortcuts on your Mac, so it 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 your assistant 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 your assistant 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. This is also how Pomeroy reaches an app it has no tools for. It never reads your screen and never asks for Accessibility, so an app with no scripting interface is reached by a shortcut you made for it.

How to connect your AI assistant to Apple Shortcuts

The same four steps whichever assistant you use. Each assistant also has its own page for Apple Shortcuts, below, with what Set up does there and how to check it worked.

  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

    Choose your AI assistant.

    Pomeroy lists the AI assistants it finds on this Mac. Press Set up beside yours: most take one click, and the rest take a configuration Pomeroy copies for you.

  4. 4

    Ask your assistant.

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

Connect a specific assistant to Apple Shortcuts

Not here: claude.ai, ChatGPT and Grok on the web. Why.

Can my AI assistant run my Apple Shortcuts?

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

Can my AI assistant create a shortcut?

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

What about an app Pomeroy does not support?

With a shortcut you built for it. Pomeroy never reads your screen and never asks for Accessibility, so it cannot click around an app that offers nothing to automate. What it can do is run a shortcut you made, which is the same reach with you deciding the steps.

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.

How does Pomeroy compare with other tools?

Other apps also connect an AI assistant to Apple Shortcuts, and some are free. Pomeroy is the read-mostly one, and the comparison pages set out price, coverage and maintenance for each, with the date the facts were checked: Pomeroy vs iMCP, Pomeroy vs Macuse, Pomeroy vs LMCP, apple-mcp is archived. What should you use instead?.

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