What can an AI teammate do with Shortcut?

A Shortcut AI teammate can list and search stories, browse epics and iterations, summarize project progress, create new stories from notes or requests, and update story state or ownership - all on a schedule or on demand. Write actions like creating or updating stories always require your approval before they run.

Can my teammate manage stories across multiple projects?

Yes. Your teammate can search and list stories across all projects your Shortcut workspace contains. You can scope tasks to specific projects, teams, or iterations in the task instructions.

Will my teammate automatically move stories through workflow states?

It can, but only with your approval. Update story is a write action, so any state transition - such as moving a story from In Progress to Done - requires explicit confirmation before it executes.

How is a Shortcut AI teammate different from Shortcut's built-in automations?

Shortcut automations are rule-based and trigger on fixed conditions. An AI teammate understands natural language instructions, can reason across multiple stories and epics, compose summaries, and adapt its behavior based on context - going well beyond simple if-this-then-that rules.

Project management

AI Teammate for Shortcut

An AI teammate that tracks, prioritizes, and updates your engineering work.

Your AI teammate for Shortcut searches stories, monitors epics, and keeps your backlog moving - a tireless project companion for software teams. Whether you call it sprint planning or iteration management, your teammate surfaces what needs attention and creates or updates work items to reflect reality. Write actions always require your approval.

Engineering teams lose hours every week to manual backlog grooming, status updates, and cross-team syncs. A Shortcut AI teammate automates the routine project management work so your engineers stay focused on shipping.

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What your AI teammate can do with Shortcut

Read-only actions run automatically. Write actions require your approval.

Read-only actions

list stories

Browse stories across projects, iterations, or epics

get story

Fetch full details of a specific story including comments and history

list epics

View all epics and their current completion status

list iterations

See current and upcoming iterations with their associated stories

search stories

Find stories by keyword, owner, state, label, or date

Write actions (require approval)

create story

Add a new story to a project with title, description, and metadata

update story

Change a story's state, owner, estimate, or other fields

Example workflows with Shortcut

Real tasks you can run on a schedule or on demand.

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summarize all in-progress stories each morning and post a digest to slack

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identify unestimated stories before sprint planning and flag them for the team

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create follow-up stories automatically from meeting notes or bug reports

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generate a weekly engineering progress report from completed iteration stories

How to connect Shortcut

Create a free m8tes account.

Connect Shortcut

Click Connect and complete the OAuth flow or enter your API key.

Create a task

Give your AI teammate a task that uses Shortcut. It handles the rest.

Shortcut AI teammate: FAQ

Common questions about using an AI teammate with Shortcut.

Build an AI teammate for Shortcut

Connect Shortcut to an autonomous AI teammate that reads data, runs tasks on schedule, and delivers structured output.

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Build a teammate that uses Shortcut alongside your other tools.

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