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Shortcut MCP for AI Agents. Audit your entire product backlog, instantly.

Shortcut MCP lets your AI agent run as an autonomous project auditor for your entire product backlog. Instead of clicking through endless boards, you can interrogate tasks, audit team assignments, and track high-level roadmaps—all by talking to your agent.

Shortcut MCP is compatible with Claude Claude
Shortcut MCP is compatible with ChatGPT ChatGPT
Shortcut MCP is compatible with Cursor Cursor
Shortcut MCP is compatible with Gemini Gemini
Shortcut MCP is compatible with Windsurf Windsurf
Shortcut MCP is compatible with VS Code VS Code
Shortcut MCP is compatible with JetBrains JetBrains
Shortcut MCP is compatible with Vercel Vercel
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Give Claude and any AI agent real-world access

Search Project Stories

Searches through your entire backlog to find specific tasks or features using keywords.

Get Story Details

Retrieves every piece of information, including nested sub-tasks and descriptions, for a single story.

Audit Project Roadmaps

Lists all major project clusters (Epics) to give you a high-level view of the entire roadmap.

Track Development Sprints

Lists current and past sprints (Iterations) so you can monitor development momentum.

Map Project Structure

Retrieves a list of all active projects within the organization's workspace.

Analyze Workflow States

Lists every custom workflow and its valid states to understand how tasks move through your pipeline.

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What AI agents can do with Shortcut MCP: 7 Tools for Project Management

These tools let you programmatically manage every aspect of your development cycle, from tracking single stories to auditing the whole project roadmap.

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Add this MCP to Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf and your AI stops guessing. It gets real tools to look things up, take action, and handle the stuff you keep doing by hand.

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Search Stories

Searches across the entire system to find any stories or tickets matching your keywords or criteria.

Get Story Details

Retrieves all nested details, sub-tasks, and full descriptions for a specific story...

List Epics

Provides an overview of every major initiative or large project grouping (Epic) in...

List Iterations

Lists all defined development cycles, commonly known as sprints, to track timeline...

List Projects

Gives you a categorized list of every active project within the organization's...

List Workflows

Lists all custom state pipelines and workflows, showing exactly how issues can move through your process.

List Members

Retrieves a directory of every user account assigned to the Shortcut workspace.

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Shortcut MCP is compatible with Claude

Claude AI

1

Open Claude Settings

Go to claude.ai, click your profile icon, then navigate to Customize → Connectors.

2

Add Custom Connector

Click the "+" button and select Add custom connector. Paste your Vinkius endpoint URL:

https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp

Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your token from cloud.vinkius.com. For OAuth-protected servers, expand Advanced settings to add credentials.

3

Start a conversation

Open a new chat. The Shortcut integration is available immediately — no restart needed.

Choose How to Get Started

Build a custom MCP for your own tools, or connect a ready-made integration from our catalog.

Build Your Own

Turn any API into an MCP. Import a spec, define Agent Skills, or deploy with MCPFusion.

  • Import from OpenAPI, Swagger, or YAML specs
  • Create Agent Skills with progressive disclosure
  • Deploy to edge with MCPFusion framework
  • Built in DLP, auth, and compliance on each call
  • Real time usage dashboard and cost metering
  • Publish to catalog or keep private
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Make Your AI Do More

Start with Shortcut, then connect any of our 5,200+ other servers whenever your AI needs more. One click, no limits.

  • Use this MCP plus 5,200+ others, all in one place
  • Add new capabilities to your AI anytime you want
  • Connections are secured and governed automatically
  • Track usage and costs across all your servers
  • Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and more
  • New servers added to the catalog weekly
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The biggest time drain in product management isn't building—it's reporting status. Solved with Vinkius AI Gateway

Right now, if you need an overview of a project's health, you open Shortcut. You check the main board, then click into the 'Epics' tab to see the high-level roadmap. Next, you have to drill down into individual boards, opening multiple tabs just to count how many stories are stuck in 'Review.' Then, if someone asks about a specific task, you run through the history and copy/paste details—it’s click-heavy, slow, and prone to human error.

With this MCP, that whole process vanishes. You simply ask your agent: 'What's the status of our Q3 payment refactor?' The system runs multiple tools (list_epics, list_iterations) and gives you a clean summary in plain text. You get instant answers, not endless clicking.

Shortcut MCP provides full administrative visibility into your project structure.

You no longer have to manually cross-reference who is assigned to what. You can use list_projects to see the scope, then run list_members to check ownership, all in one go. This gives you a complete picture of accountability that would take hours to map out by hand.

This isn't just pulling data; it's giving your AI client full administrative control over how you interact with Shortcut. You stop managing the clicks and start focusing on the product.

What your AI can actually do with this

This connector gives your AI client total administrative control over your Shortcut development environment. It turns the tool into a dedicated project auditor that understands how your work flows across projects and sprints. Forget manually clicking through tabs or exporting data just to figure out where things stand. You can now ask natural questions—like, “Find all bugs reported this week and tell me what Epic they belong to.” The system pulls everything together for you, querying deep backlogs, mapping team structures, and auditing workflow states without ever opening a single tab.

It's like having an instant scrum master sitting on your shoulder. Because Vinkius hosts this MCP, you connect once from any compatible client—Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf—and gain access to the entire suite of project management tools.

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Questions you might have

How does search_stories work with other tools in the Shortcut MCP? +

search_stories finds a ticket ID first, which you can then pass to get_story_details. This lets your agent retrieve deep data on a specific story after finding it via keywords.

Can I use list_workflows to see the status of my current project? +

list_workflows shows all possible states in the entire organization, but you still need to run search_stories or get_story_details on a specific ticket to see its actual current state.

What if I want to know who works on a certain Epic? +

You first use list_epics to find the epic name, and then you ask your agent to cross-reference that data with list_members. It's an automated lookup.

Is this MCP better than just using Shortcut’s native search? +

Yes, because it doesn't just search; it aggregates and interprets the results. Your agent runs multiple tools (like list_epics and list_iterations) simultaneously to give context you can't get from a single view.