Shortcut

Shortcut MCP Connector for Claude

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Equip your AI agent to radically manage your Shortcut workspace. Search stories, track epics and iterations, fetch team members, and audit workflows from your IDE.

7 tools Official Updated Jun 28, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner

Grant your AI agent (like Claude or Cursor) absolute administrative dominion over your Shortcut project management environment. The Shortcut MCP equips your LLM to act as a fully autonomous scrum master and project auditor. Forget clicking through endless boards—now you can interrogate task backlogs, audit iterations, and orchestrate developers exclusively via natural conversational prompts deeply integrated with the REST API.

What you can do

  • Deep Story Infiltration — Rip through dense backlogs via search_stories. Need the grit on a specific ticket? Drill down violently with get_story_details directly from your IDE to extract every description and sub-task effortlessly
  • Strategic Epic & Sprint Surveillance — Audit high-level roadmaps invoking list_epics and monitor ongoing sprints by extracting list_iterations to forecast roadmap failure or success without opening a single tab
  • Team & Workflow Cartography — Interrogate the hierarchy applying list_projects, isolate specific developer IDs using list_members, and trace custom state mappings across the pipeline using list_workflows

How it works

  1. Anchor this core interface directly within your native MCP agent framework
  2. Safely entrench your SHORTCUT_API_TOKEN matrix inside the workspace to lock down security boundaries
  3. Engage your agent pragmatically: "Find all bugs reported this week and tell me what Epic they belong to based on their details!"
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7 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

search_stories

Useful for tracking specific tasks or features. Searches for stories in Shortcut

get_story_details

Retrieves details for a specific story

list_epics

Lists all epics in Shortcut

list_iterations

Lists all iterations (sprints)

list_projects

Lists all projects

list_workflows

g., "To Do", "Done") a story can be in. Lists all workflows and their states

list_members

Lists all workspace members

See how to talk to your AI agent using Shortcut.

Find all stories mentioning 'database timeout' using keyword search.

Executing `search_stories` aggressively with query terms `"database timeout"`. Found 3 latent incident logs heavily referencing database connection anomalies tied predominantly to the recent infrastructure rollout. Would you like me to deeply retrieve their nested tasks exploiting `get_story_details` sequentially?

List all ongoing epics and let me evaluate our current roadmap vectors.

Triggering the macro-level aggregator `list_epics`. Discovered 8 massive roadmap clusters actively in motion. Noteworthy dense collections prominently included "Q3 Payment Refactor" housing severely delayed workflow statuses and "Client App Redesign" exhibiting strong momentum matrices safely. Should I drill downwards targeting specific iterations next?

List workflows to show me all valid issue states in this organization.

Initiating standard extraction accessing `list_workflows` exclusively. Successfully isolated 2 primary organizational workflow state pipelines. 'Engineering Workflow' notably incorporates active transition tags directly translating as 'Unstarted', 'Ready for Dev', 'In Development', securely mapping seamlessly into endpoint resolution state uniquely marked 'Completed'.

By structural design, this module is strictly bound as an observational lens. Operations such as `search_stories`, `list_epics`, and `get_story_details` parse and extract massive context. It omits explicitly write mechanisms preventing your autonomous agent from accidentally sabotaging valid roadmap components permanently.

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