Askew — iPhone, iPad and Mac via Shortcuts MCP Server

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Askew — iPhone, iPad and Mac via Shortcuts runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 18 Sep 2026.

Run Shortcuts on your iPhone, iPad or Mac from any MCP agent, even locked. End-to-end encrypted.

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18 Sep 2026

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MIT

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TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Askew — iPhone, iPad and Mac via Shortcuts every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add askew-mcp -- npx -y askew-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "askew-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "askew-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.askew-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "askew-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "askew-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "askew-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "askew-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "askew-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: ASKEW_CONNECTOR_KEY (Connector key from the Askew iPhone app (Settings → New connector). Starts with akc_.), ASKEW_SERVER (Relay URL. Defaults to https://api.askew.my.), ASKEW_KEY_PATH (Where the connector's private key file lives. Defaults to ~/.askew/connector.key.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Askew — iPhone, iPad and Mac via Shortcuts — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Askew — iPhone, iPad and Mac via Shortcuts?

Askew — iPhone, iPad and Mac via Shortcuts runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package askew-mcp.

How do I connect Askew — iPhone, iPad and Mac via Shortcuts?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls askew-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

Is Askew — iPhone, iPad and Mac via Shortcuts open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.