“Shortcuts Playground” lets you create shortcuts using natural language

Federico Viticci to MacStories is available today with another wild tool that integrates with Apple’s Shortcuts app.

Federico’s Shortcuts Playground is a plugin for Claude Code and Codex that can “create any shortcut for Apple’s Shortcuts app using natural language.”

This is how Federico describes it:

Today, I have the pleasure of presenting to you something that I have been working on for six months: Shortcuts Playgrounda plugin for Claude Code and Codex which allows you to create any shortcut for Apple’s Shortcuts app using natural language. With Shortcuts Playground, you can simply ask Claude Code or Codex for a sentence requesting a shortcut of any kind; a few minutes later, you’ll find yourself with a real shortcut in Finder, ready to import into the Shortcuts app. It’s that simple.

Federico also has some ideas on how to “start simple” with using Shortcuts Playground:

You can start simple with Shortcuts Playground: ask for “a fun, unbalanced Hello World shortcut”, or maybe one that “takes my 5 most recent screenshots and sends them to a contact on iMessage”, or maybe one that “shows me how much time is left until my next calendar event”. Yes, these are considered “simple” shortcuts in Shortcuts Playground. Start a new session in your preferred agent, enter your idea and wait a few minutes (depending on the complexity of your idea). Once this is done, you will have a validated and signed shortcut waiting for you.

Shortcuts Playground is free and open source, and Federico has further documented how it works on GitHub.

For Club MacStories members, Federico went further and published “Shortcuts Playground as Generative Shortcut”.

“It’s pretty meta: once you’ve installed the main plugin on a Mac, you can use a shortcut to create more shortcuts and install them directly on an iPhone, iPad or other Mac,” explains Federico.

You can learn more and download Shortcuts Playground at MacStories. If anything, you should at least know more about how Federico achieved this magic.

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