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mac-shortcuts-mcp

Let any AI agent read your Mac — Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Contacts, Clipboard, Location, Weather — through Apple Shortcuts. Read-only, local, no account. Includes a harvested catalog of 539 Shortcuts actions and their parameter keys.

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What's in it

Data offered llm-inferred: calendar events (next N days) · reminders (optionally one list) · notes (search with body text) · contacts (lookup by name) · clipboard contents · location (address and coordinates) · weather at the Mac's location · device name and battery · currently playing track · list of installed Shortcuts · run a user-installed Shortcut by name · search of 539-action Shortcuts action catalog
Formats llm-inferred: text · JSON (action-catalog.json) · MCP stdio
Access docs-verified: Local install on macOS; no account or server required; MIT licence (free to use). Reads are read-only per docs, but mac_run_shortcut is not sandboxed.

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred: Pulling a site-visit or fieldwork schedule from Calendar to plan survey days · Finding a previously written site note (e.g. access agreement or lease) in Notes during a project · Looking up a client, landowner or contractor contact from Contacts before a consultation
Audience llm-inferred: consultants and engineers using Claude or other MCP clients on macOS · personal productivity users wanting agent access to local Mac apps

Limitations

Constraints llm-inferred: Does nothing while the Mac is asleep; screen lock is fine · macOS only · Not a source of environmental, hydrological, geospatial or UK-specific datasets · Requires one-time setup of read recipes and per-recipe Add Shortcut confirmation · macOS permission prompts for Contacts and Calendar belong to Shortcuts · mac_run_shortcut can run any installed Shortcut, including ones that write data or send messages; not an enforced read-only sandbox · Dependent on Apple Shortcuts behaviour, which may change across macOS versions

Licence: MIT
Authentication: Unknown — review source docs
GitHub stars: 14
Last commit: 21/09/2026
Last successful page check: 14/10/2026
Page health: healthy
Package: npm:mac-shortcuts-mcp
Verification: Not independently verified

Auto-extracted, unverified fields: tools, install, auth. Check upstream documentation.

Provenance & evidence

Tools/install/auth auto-extracted from README; quality score heuristic (stars, recency, tool count, licence).

Metadata observed 15/10/2026 · research sweep: github-search