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Mac Shortcuts — read your Mac from any agent MCP Server

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Mac Shortcuts — read your Mac from any agent runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 277 installs a week from npm. Last commit 21 Sep 2026.

Read your Mac's Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Contacts and more via Shortcuts. Read-only, local.

Installs per day peak 242 · avg 8
a month agotoday
277
Installs / week
npm · mac-shortcuts-mcp
13
Stars
0 open issues
21 Sep 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
TypeScript

What the code does

We read the source, 9 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

Claims read-only, but the code runs commands src/install.ts:33, src/shortcuts.ts:26
  return new Promise(res => execFile(cmd, args, { timeout: timeoutMs }, (err, _o, stderr) =>
Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Runs an external command src/install.ts:33, src/shortcuts.ts:26
  return new Promise(res => execFile(cmd, args, { timeout: timeoutMs }, (err, _o, stderr) =>

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We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch Mac Shortcuts — read your Mac from any agent and you get told the day something new turns up.

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mac-shortcuts-mcp -- npx -y mac-shortcuts-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mac-shortcuts-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mac-shortcuts-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mac-shortcuts-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mac-shortcuts-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mac-shortcuts-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mac-shortcuts-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mac-shortcuts-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mac-shortcuts-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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Mac Shortcuts — read your Mac from any agent — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Mac Shortcuts — read your Mac from any agent?
Mac Shortcuts — read your Mac from any agent 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 mac-shortcuts-mcp was installed 277 times last week.
How do I connect Mac Shortcuts — read your Mac from any agent?
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 mac-shortcuts-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Mac Shortcuts — read your Mac from any agent?
The npm package mac-shortcuts-mcp was installed 277 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Mac Shortcuts — read your Mac from any agent open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 13 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.