Apple Shortcuts MCP Server

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Apple Shortcuts runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 43 installs a week from npm. Last commit 13 Sep 2026.

MCP server for Apple Shortcuts via the macOS shortcuts CLI

Installs per day peak 18 · avg 8 · +57% w/w

a month agotoday

Installs / week

npm · @mindstone/mcp-server-apple-shortcuts

Stars

1 open issues

13 Sep 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

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License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Apple 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 mcp-server-apple-shortcuts -- npx -y @mindstone/mcp-server-apple-shortcuts

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-apple-shortcuts": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mindstone/mcp-server-apple-shortcuts"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp-server-apple-shortcuts]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@mindstone/mcp-server-apple-shortcuts"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-apple-shortcuts": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mindstone/mcp-server-apple-shortcuts"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-apple-shortcuts": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mindstone/mcp-server-apple-shortcuts"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: APPLE_SHORTCUTS_TIMEOUT_MS (Maximum time in milliseconds to wait for a shortcuts CLI invocation before terminating it). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Apple Shortcuts — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Apple Shortcuts?

Apple 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 @mindstone/mcp-server-apple-shortcuts was installed 43 times last week.

How do I connect Apple 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 @mindstone/mcp-server-apple-shortcuts straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Apple Shortcuts?

The npm package @mindstone/mcp-server-apple-shortcuts was installed 43 times in the last week. Week over week that is +57%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Apple Shortcuts open source?

We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript, 12 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.