<![CDATA[After nearly six months of work, I'm thrilled to introduce Shortcuts Playground:]]>After nearly six months of work, I'm thrilled to introduce Shortcuts Playground:

A plugin for Claude Code and Codex to create native Apple shortcuts with natural language.

Type a sentence in, get a shortcut back. It can one-shot complex shortcuts, make changes, and remix old shortcuts. Full Shortcuts action library supported.

Free and open source. Install it in your favorite agent here: https://github.com/viticci/shortcuts-playground-plugin

My story on how and why I made this: https://www.macstories.net/stories/introducing-shortcuts-playground/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/f8c7215b-2ee8-4278-90c5-d2f462b212ef/after-nearly-six-months-of-work-i-m-thrilled-to-introduce-shortcuts-playgroundRSS for NodeFri, 05 Jun 2026 21:26:05 GMTThu, 21 May 2026 14:28:30 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to After nearly six months of work, I'm thrilled to introduce Shortcuts Playground: on Thu, 21 May 2026 19:32:33 GMT]]>@technobaboo in that case, WE ARE SO BACK 😜

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.macstories.net/users/viticci/statuses/116614231070078880https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.macstories.net/users/viticci/statuses/116614231070078880Thu, 21 May 2026 19:32:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to After nearly six months of work, I'm thrilled to introduce Shortcuts Playground: on Thu, 21 May 2026 19:31:56 GMT]]>@viticci I know, it was a joke 😞

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ordinary.cafe/users/technobaboo/statuses/116614228647572253https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ordinary.cafe/users/technobaboo/statuses/116614228647572253Thu, 21 May 2026 19:31:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to After nearly six months of work, I'm thrilled to introduce Shortcuts Playground: on Thu, 21 May 2026 19:29:01 GMT]]>@technobaboo no. Read the article next time

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.macstories.net/users/viticci/statuses/116614217187721442https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.macstories.net/users/viticci/statuses/116614217187721442Thu, 21 May 2026 19:29:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to After nearly six months of work, I'm thrilled to introduce Shortcuts Playground: on Thu, 21 May 2026 19:27:51 GMT]]>@viticci applescript is back

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ordinary.cafe/users/technobaboo/statuses/116614212589422545https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ordinary.cafe/users/technobaboo/statuses/116614212589422545Thu, 21 May 2026 19:27:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to After nearly six months of work, I'm thrilled to introduce Shortcuts Playground: on Thu, 21 May 2026 18:34:18 GMT]]>@viticci This is so cool! Was working on the same thing a few days ago for a different project.

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Attached: 1 image It'll be cool to see AI based shortcuts creation in iOS 27. I had made a working prototype of this a few months ago when I was working on a separate project. Happy to join the Shortcuts team if they're hiring prototypers ;)

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Viditb/statuses/116614002030540670https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Viditb/statuses/116614002030540670Thu, 21 May 2026 18:34:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to After nearly six months of work, I'm thrilled to introduce Shortcuts Playground: on Thu, 21 May 2026 16:31:06 GMT]]>@viticci Federico Viticci you have outdone yourself yet again

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/EshuMarneedi/statuses/116613517602618104https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/EshuMarneedi/statuses/116613517602618104Thu, 21 May 2026 16:31:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to After nearly six months of work, I'm thrilled to introduce Shortcuts Playground: on Thu, 21 May 2026 15:34:58 GMT]]>@viticci Congratulations on all of this, we've got a very exciting few weeks ahead of us!!!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.lol/users/pauls/statuses/116613296832587296https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.lol/users/pauls/statuses/116613296832587296Thu, 21 May 2026 15:34:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to After nearly six months of work, I'm thrilled to introduce Shortcuts Playground: on Thu, 21 May 2026 15:14:29 GMT]]>@viticci @stroughtonsmith I always wanted this! Editing Shortcuts is such a pain and the Shortcutsapp is sooo buggy (I wish I could just edit them as text). I’ll be happy if I never have to touch the Shortcuts app again.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/com/statuses/116613216275716076https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/com/statuses/116613216275716076Thu, 21 May 2026 15:14:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to After nearly six months of work, I'm thrilled to introduce Shortcuts Playground: on Thu, 21 May 2026 15:13:08 GMT]]>@viticci you are a madman

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/BenRiceM/statuses/116613210978719054https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/BenRiceM/statuses/116613210978719054Thu, 21 May 2026 15:13:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to After nearly six months of work, I'm thrilled to introduce Shortcuts Playground: on Thu, 21 May 2026 15:03:33 GMT]]>@rileytestut Thanks! let me know how it goes!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.macstories.net/users/viticci/statuses/116613173337119889https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.macstories.net/users/viticci/statuses/116613173337119889Thu, 21 May 2026 15:03:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to After nearly six months of work, I'm thrilled to introduce Shortcuts Playground: on Thu, 21 May 2026 14:53:09 GMT]]>@viticci amazing!! Might actually try building some shortcuts again 🙏

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/rileytestut/statuses/116613132421529904https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/rileytestut/statuses/116613132421529904Thu, 21 May 2026 14:53:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to After nearly six months of work, I'm thrilled to introduce Shortcuts Playground: on Thu, 21 May 2026 14:36:40 GMT]]>Lastly, we made a dedicated mini-site for Shortcuts Playground:

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Shortcuts Playground — Describe it. Build it. Run it.

Turn plain English into real Apple Shortcuts. A Claude Code & Codex plugin from MacStories.

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I learned so much about working with agents, designing a harness, and how Shortcuts works in building all this.

I fully expect to be Sherlocked in 3 weeks and I can't wait. If I could make this, imagine what Apple can offer.

Enjoy!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.macstories.net/users/viticci/statuses/116613067632292097https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.macstories.net/users/viticci/statuses/116613067632292097Thu, 21 May 2026 14:36:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to After nearly six months of work, I'm thrilled to introduce Shortcuts Playground: on Thu, 21 May 2026 14:34:49 GMT]]>…but what if I could go deeper?

What if you could generate shortcuts…from Shortcuts itself, on-device?

Introducing Shortcuts Playground Remote: a generative shortcut that can make other shortcuts. Create, resume sessions, and remix older shortcuts. Works with Claude Code and Codex.

Available for Club Plus and Premier members:

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Shortcuts Playground Remote: The Generative Shortcut That Makes Other Shortcuts

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

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.macstories.net/users/viticci/statuses/116613060344663917https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.macstories.net/users/viticci/statuses/116613060344663917Thu, 21 May 2026 14:34:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to After nearly six months of work, I'm thrilled to introduce Shortcuts Playground: on Thu, 21 May 2026 14:32:36 GMT]]>But that's not all:

Shortcuts Playground made more than 100 shortcuts to test itself.

Those shortcuts, plus all my previous ones, are now part of the completely redesigned MacStories Shortcuts Archive, launching today:

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MacStories Shortcuts Archive

MacStories Shortcuts Archive with responsive grid browsing, category filtering, and sorting.

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Announcement post: https://www.macstories.net/news/the-new-shortcuts-archive/

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