Connect Codex to Apple Shortcuts

Name: Pomeroy
Price: 19 USD

Yes, Codex can run your Apple Shortcuts. Pomeroy connects Codex 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 Codex 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 Codex 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 codex to apple shortcuts

Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install Codex first if it is not there yet.

1
Download Pomeroy and switch on Apple Shortcuts.
Open the download, drag Pomeroy into Applications, and open it. Pomeroy opens a setup window listing every app it can connect. Pomeroy runs your shortcuts through the shortcuts command that ships with macOS, and only ever by the exact name you ask for.
2
Press Set up beside Codex.
Pomeroy runs Codex's own codex mcp add command, which writes to Codex's configuration file. The CLI, the IDE extension and the ChatGPT desktop app all read that one file, so you set up once. If the codex command is not where Pomeroy can find it, Pomeroy adds the entry to the file itself.
3
Check Codex.
Run codex mcp list in the Terminal and pomeroy is listed. In the ChatGPT app, Settings › MCP servers shows it. Quit Codex and open it again.
4
Ask Codex something.
Try “Run my Wind Down shortcut.” and a real answer comes back.

The configuration, in full

Set up writes it for you. The documentation has the exact text, where it goes, and how to check it worked.

Can Codex run my Apple Shortcuts?

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

Can Codex create a shortcut?

No. Codex 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.

Codex does not show Pomeroy's tools.

Quit Codex completely and open it again; it reads its configuration when it starts. Then press Set up again in Pomeroy, under Settings › Assistants: every way Pomeroy sets an assistant up is safe to run twice. Pomeroy's menu bar shows whether Codex is connected right now.

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