Shortcuts

Your AI assistant can run a Shortcut you already built, by name. It cannot create, edit, or delete one, and this is how Pomeroy reaches apps it has no tools for.

Shortcuts is the app where you decide what is possible. Pomeroy can run what you have already built, and nothing else.

Can

• List your shortcuts by name
• Run one by its exact name and hand back whatever it produced
• Pass a line of text into a shortcut as its input

Cannot

• Create, edit, or delete a shortcut
• Run a shortcut you have not already made
• Leave a shortcut waiting: one that stops to ask for a click is ended after two minutes

Tools

Tool	What it does	Kind
shortcuts_list	The shortcuts on this Mac, by name, sorted. Start here, because shortcuts_run takes one of these names exactly as spelled	Read
shortcuts_run	Runs one shortcut by its exact name and returns whatever it produced	Write

Try it

Run my Wind Down shortcut.
What shortcuts do I have?
Run Log Expense with "coffee 3.40".

This is the escape hatch, and it is yours

A shortcut you built can do things Pomeroy will not do itself, including sending a message.

That power is yours. You set it up in the Shortcuts app, you decide exactly what it does, and Pomeroy only starts the shortcut you name. It cannot write one, cannot change one, and cannot invent a capability you have not already given it.

This is also how Pomeroy reaches an app it has no tools for. Pomeroy never reads your screen and never asks for Accessibility, so an app with no scripting interface is reached by a shortcut you made for it: a deliberate, visible, revocable thing rather than an app quietly gaining the run of your Mac.

shortcuts_run is the one tool that can do something you did not directly ask for, because a shortcut can do anything you built into it. Switch Shortcuts off if you would rather an assistant could not start them.

Worth knowing

The name must match character for character

A near miss runs nothing. Instead it comes back with the candidates, so an assistant can ask you which one you meant rather than guessing and running the wrong automation.

Two minutes, then it stops

A shortcut that waits for someone to click is killed after two minutes. Nothing sits half-run holding your assistant open.

Whatever it produced comes back

If your shortcut outputs text, the assistant gets it and can use it in its answer.

Permissions

Switching Shortcuts on asks macOS for permission to control Shortcuts (NSAppleEventsUsageDescription). Separate from Mail and Notes.