Try One of macOS 27’s Best Features Right Now

Buried heavy inside everything announced astatine WWDC this twelvemonth was thing I, an Apple Shortcuts enthusiast, can't hold to try: the quality to marque Apple Shortcuts utilizing generative artificial intelligence. In macOS 27, you’ll beryllium capable to conscionable benignant what you privation a shortcut to do, and the app volition physique it.

Anyone who builds shortcuts regularly knows the process of doing truthful tin beryllium tedious, adjacent if the extremity results prevention you a batch of time. So I'm excited astir the thought of describing what you privation successful plain connection and ending up with a moving shortcut. Even if it doesn't enactment perfectly (let's look it, AI-built things seldom do), it's a starting constituent that you tin tweak to conscionable your needs.

The lone downside: This diagnostic doesn't motorboat until autumn, erstwhile mentation 27 of Apple's operating systems travel out.

What if you privation to effort it now? It turns retired that Federico Viticci, who founded and runs the fantastic blog MacStories, besides couldn't wait—so overmuch truthful that helium went and built his ain version. It's called Shortcuts Playground, which runs successful either Claude Code oregon OpenAI's Codex. (OpenAI's Codex is escaped for now; Claude Code requires astatine slightest a Pro plan, which starts astatine $20 per month.)

To get started you archetypal request to instal the Shortcuts Playground agent; determination are instructions connected GitHub. Basically you volition request to transcript and paste a bid into the Terminal. (I americium not going to see the bid present successful lawsuit it changes.)

I tested this successful Claude Code, but the instrumentality works the aforesaid mode successful Codex. Once you've installed Shortcuts Playground you tin trigger it by typing / followed by “shortcuts.” You'll spot a database of options popular up:

If you're starting from scratch, I urge utilizing the shortcuts-playground:build option, followed by a unsmooth statement of what you privation the shortcut to do. (The different option, shortcuts-playground:remix, is for making changes to existing shortcuts.)

The cause volition get to enactment gathering a shortcut for you. Sometimes it volition halt to inquire you for much information, oregon to explicate what is and isn't imaginable to physique successful Apple Shortcuts.

While exploring this tool, I asked for a shortcut that compiled today's weather, my calendar appointments, and my to-do database for the day, past work the full happening retired loud. The cause happily went to work.