What is apple-shortcut-maker-mcp CLAUDE.md?

Development notes for an MCP server that lets AI assistants create Apple Shortcuts, Apple's visual automation workflows, from code.

Understanding, extending, or maintaining shortcut creation, duplication, listing, running, and importing features.

It explains the server's structure and command-line tools so developers can work on it correctly.

How Suisei110/apple-shortcut-maker-mcp configures Claude Code

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Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00825	$0.00825
Opus 5.5	$0.00330	$0.00330
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00165	$0.00165
Haiku 4.5	$0.00082	$0.00082

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 909357297f22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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CLAUDE.md · 131 lines

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Apple Shortcut Maker MCP - Development Notes

Project Overview

This is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that allows AI assistants to create Apple Shortcuts programmatically using the Cherri programming language.

Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│   MCP Client (Claude/Cursor/etc)       │
└─────────────────────┬───────────────────┘
                      │ MCP Protocol
                      ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│   MCP Server (Python)                   │
│   - create_shortcut()                   │
│   - duplicate_shortcut()                │
│   - list_shortcuts()                    │
│   - run_shortcut()                      │
└───────┬───────────────────┬─────────────┘
        │                   │
        ▼                   ▼
┌───────────────┐   ┌──────────────────────┐
│ Cherri CLI    │   │ shortcuts CLI        │
│ (.cherri ->   │   │ (list, run, import)  │
│  .shortcut)   │   │                      │
└───────────────┘   └──────────────────────┘

Key Files

File	Description
`src/apple_shortcut_mcp/server.py`	Main MCP server implementation
`src/apple_shortcut_mcp/cherri_helper.py`	Wrapper for Cherri compiler
`src/apple_shortcut_mcp/tools/create.py`	Create shortcut tool
`src/apple_shortcut_mcp/tools/duplicate.py`	Duplicate shortcut tool
`src/apple_shortcut_mcp/tools/list_shortcuts.py`	List shortcuts tool
`src/apple_shortcut_mcp/tools/run.py`	Run shortcut tool

Development

Running the Server

# Development mode
uv run apple-shortcut-mcp

# With debug output
DEBUG=1 uv run apple-shortcut-mcp

Testing

# Run tests
uv run pytest

# Run with coverage
uv run pytest --cov

Cherri Code Reference

Basic Syntax

// Variable assignment - use @
@varName = "value"

// Built-in actions
alert("message", "title")
askText("prompt")
askNumber("prompt")
showResult("text")
calculate(math expression)

// Menu
menu "Title:" {
    item "Option 1":
        // action
    item "Option 2":
        // action
}

// Loops
repeat 3 {
    // actions
}

for @item in @list {
    // actions
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

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apple-shortcut-maker-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Suisei110/apple-shortcut-maker-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 825 tokens to every session, about $0.0033 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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