GoKawiilFederico Viticci at MacStories is out today with yet another wild tool that integrates with Apple’s Shortcuts app.
Shortcuts Playground from Federico is a plugin for Claude Code and Codex that can “create any shortcut for Apple’s Shortcuts app using natural language.”
Here’s how Federico describes it:
Today, I’m pleased to introduce something I’ve been working on for the past six months: Shortcuts Playground, a plugin for Claude Code and Codex that can create any shortcut for Apple’s Shortcuts app using natural language. With Shortcuts Playground, you can simply prompt Claude Code or Codex with a sentence requesting a shortcut of any kind; a few minutes later, you’ll end up with a real shortcut in Finder, ready to be imported into the Shortcuts app. It’s as simple as that.
Federico also has some ideas on how to “start simple” with using Shortcuts Playground:
You can start simple with Shortcuts Playground: ask for “a funny and unhinged Hello World shortcut”, or perhaps a shortcut that “takes my 5 most recent screenshots and sends them to a contact on iMessage”, or maybe one that “shows me how much time I have left until my next calendar event”. Yes, those are considered “simple” shortcuts in Shortcuts Playground. Start a new session in your favorite agent, enter your idea, and wait a few minutes (depending on the complexity of your idea). Once it’s done, you’ll have a validated and signed shortcut waiting for you.
Shortcuts Playground is free and open source, and Federico has documented more about how it works on GitHub.
For Club MacStories members, Federico has gone one step further and released “Shortcuts Playground as a generative shortcut.”
“It’s quite meta: once you have the main plugin installed on a Mac, you can use a shortcut to make more shortcuts and install them directly on an iPhone, iPad, or other Mac,” Federico explains.
You can learn more and download Shortcuts Playground over at MacStories. If anything, you should at least go read more about how Federico pulled off this wizardry.
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