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Shortcut MCP Server

Name: Shortcut
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Author: Vinkius

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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.

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What is the Shortcut MCP Server?

The Shortcut MCP Server gives AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor direct access to Shortcut via 7 tools. 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. Powered by the Vinkius - no API keys, no infrastructure, connect in under 2 minutes.

Built-in capabilities (7)

get_story_detailslist_epicslist_iterationslist_memberslist_projectslist_workflowssearch_stories

Tools for your AI Agents to operate Shortcut

Ask your AI agent "Find all stories mentioning 'database timeout' using keyword search." and get the answer without opening a single dashboard. With 7 tools connected to real Shortcut data, your agents reason over live information, cross-reference it with other MCP servers, and deliver insights you would spend hours assembling manually.

Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible client. Powered by the Vinkius - your credentials never touch the AI model, every request is auditable. Connect in under two minutes.

Why teams choose Vinkius

One subscription gives you access to thousands of MCP servers - and you can deploy your own to the Vinkius Edge. Your AI agents only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure and security, zero maintenance.

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Shortcut MCP Server capabilities

7 tools

get_story_details

Retrieves details for a specific story

list_epics

Lists all epics in Shortcut

list_iterations

Lists all iterations (sprints)

list_members

Lists all workspace members

list_projects

Lists all projects

list_workflows

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

search_stories

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

What the Shortcut MCP Server unlocks

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!"

Frequently asked questions about the Shortcut MCP Server

Can the integration alter, comment in, or edit stories directly?

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.

Why use the token via MCP instead of normal webhook integrations?

Webhooks exclusively wait for explicit platform triggers passively. The MCP configuration hands your prompt active, unadulterated runtime authority to scan iterations, grab user arrays, and interrogate backlog metadata aggressively instantly dynamically. It permits pulling, rather than simply listening blindly.

Can the integration directly access workspaces not associated with the token creator?

No. The highly sensitive REST API access token acts inherently as a mapped functional clone of the exact user credentials operating at generation time. Searching workflows, epics, and members evaluates precisely against the internal permissions bounds of the token creator robustly limiting toxic footprint.

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