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DuckyHelper in Shortcut

DuckyHelper sees Shortcut on your screen and, in early access, works in it with its own cursor to create and update stories, plan epics and iterations, track objectives, comment on work, and search your workspace. It's built to ask before it sends or pays, and explains or draws on Shortcut when you want to learn it.

Try asking
  • “List the epics and create an epic comment”
  • “Update a story in Shortcut”
  • “Show me how to create an epic”

Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask out loud. Doing the work for you is early access on Mac.

Epics in ShortcutDone in 7sExample
List the epics and create an epic comment
  1. Listed the epics in Shortcut
  2. Created an epic
  3. Create an epic comment

It's ready in Shortcut. Nothing goes out until you press Send.

Shortcut
ShortcutCommentNeeds your OK
Looks good to me. One question on the second point.

Drawn from Shortcut's own actions · early access on Mac

WHAT TO ASK

Things you can ask it to do in Shortcut

Each one is something Shortcut itself lets you do, said the way you'd ask. Questions about your screen work today; having it do the job is early access on Mac.

Ask about it

Works today

It sees your screen, answers out loud and draws on it.

  • “Explain this story to me”
  • “Where do I find the document epics in Shortcut?”
  • “Show me how to create an epic”
  • “What does this button do?”
  • “Walk me through this screen”

Read and find

Early access

It opens Shortcut and looks things up for you.

  • List the epics
  • List the stories
  • Search the epics
  • Search the stories
  • List the iterations
  • List the label epics
  • List the epic stories
  • Search the iterations
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  • List the label stories
  • List the document epics
  • List the objectives
  • List the objective epics
  • Search the objectives
  • List the iteration stories
  • List the category objectives
  • List the group stories
  • List the epic comments
  • Look up the external link stories
  • List the files
  • Look up an epic
  • Look up a story
  • Read an epic comment
  • Look up an iteration
  • Read a story comment
  • List a story comment
  • List the epic healths
  • List the linked files
  • List the epic documents
  • Look up an objective
  • List the docs
  • List the labels
  • List the projects
  • List the categories
  • List the story sub-tasks
  • List the workflows
  • Search the documents
  • Look up the epic health
  • List the repositories
  • Search the milestones
  • Read a doc
  • Search
  • List the groups
  • List the category milestones
  • Search a stories old
  • Look up a story link
  • List the members
  • Look up a file
  • Look up a linked file
  • Look up an epic workflow
  • Look up a label
  • Look up a project
  • Look up a category
  • Look up a task
  • List the entity templates
  • Look up a workflow
  • Look up a repository
  • Look up a group
  • Look up the current member info
  • List the custom fields
  • Look up a member
  • Look up an entity template
  • Look up a custom field
  • Look up a generic integration

Write and send

Early access

It's built to ask before anything is sent or paid.

  • Update a story
  • Update multiple stories
  • Create an epic
  • Create a story
  • Create an iteration
  • Create an objective
  • Create multiple stories
  • Update an epic
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  • Update an iteration
  • Create an epic comment
  • Create a story comment
  • Update an objective
  • Create an epic comment comment
  • Enable the iterations
  • Create a story link
  • Create a linked file
  • Create the epic health
  • Update an epic comment
  • Update a story comment
  • Create a story reaction
  • Create a doc
  • Create a label
  • Create a project
  • Create a category
  • Create a task
  • Update a story link
  • Update a file
  • Create a story from a template
  • Update a linked file
  • Upload the files
  • Create a group
  • Update a doc
  • Update a label
  • Update a project
  • Update a category
  • Link a document to an epic
  • Update a task
  • Update a group
  • Create an entity template
  • Comment a thread from a slack
  • Enable the story templates
  • Create a generic integration
  • Update an entity template
  • Update a custom field
  • Update the health status

Manage

Early access

It tidies up and changes things in Shortcut.

  • Delete an epic
  • Delete a story
  • Delete an iteration
  • Disable the iterations
  • Delete multiple stories
  • Delete an objective
  • Delete an epic comment
  • Delete a story comment
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  • Delete a story link
  • Delete a file
  • Delete a linked file
  • Delete a story reaction
  • Delete a doc
  • Delete a label
  • Delete a project
  • Delete a category
  • Delete a task
  • Disable the story templates
  • Delete an entity template
  • Delete a custom field
  • Delete a generic integration
BUILT TO ASK FIRST

It's built to wait for your OK in Shortcut.

When a job ends in “Create an epic comment”, it does the work, and is built to stop with it ready. You see exactly what it wrote and where it goes, then Send, Edit or Deny.

It works in Shortcut signed in as you. If it hits a sign-in, you sign in yourself: it's built not to type your passwords or card numbers.

ShortcutCommentNeeds your OK
Looks good to me. One question on the second point.

Example draft · early access on Mac

Why Use DuckyHelper?

Works in Shortcut like you do

  • Early access: it sees Shortcut on your screen and works in it with its own cursor, while you keep using yours
  • Nothing to set up: it works in Shortcut signed in as you
  • Finishes multi-step jobs across Shortcut and your other apps

Built to ask before it sends or pays

  • Built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything
  • Built not to type your passwords or card numbers for you
  • It listens and looks only while the pill is open

Shows you, not just tells you

  • Explains Shortcut out loud and draws right on your screen
  • Works it out with you on a blackboard when you want to learn it

Always there, in every app

  • Press one key in any app and ask out loud: fn on a Mac, Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux
  • Runs jobs on a schedule (early access)
  • For Mac, Windows and Linux

Want it in every app you use?

One account works in every app on your computer. Try it for 10 minutes, no card, then pick a plan.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

On your screen, the way a person at your computer would. Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask about what you see in Shortcut: it answers out loud and can draw on Shortcut to show you where things are. In early access on Mac it also works in Shortcut with its own cursor, signed in as you, while you keep using yours.

For example: “List the epics and create an epic comment” and “Update a story in Shortcut”. Or ask about what you see: “Show me how to create an epic”. Doing the work for you is in early access on Mac.

No. Open Shortcut and sign in yourself, the way you always do. DuckyHelper works in the window you have open, signed in as you. It's built not to type your passwords or card numbers for you.

It's built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything, and to wait for your yes. It may not recognize every send or payment, so keep an eye on tasks that involve messages or money.

In Shortcut, a job that ends in “Create an epic comment” is built to stop there for your OK: Send, Edit or Deny.

Yes. Press one key and ask out loud. It answers out loud while you keep working, draws on your screen to show you where things are, or works it out with you on a blackboard.

Yes. DuckyHelper works in any app on your computer, so one job can move between Shortcut and the other apps and pages you use.

Doing the work for you is new and in early access on Mac. Asking out loud, drawing on your screen and the blackboard work today on Mac, Windows and Linux.

No. It listens and looks only while the pill is open. When the pill is closed, nothing is heard or seen.

No, there is no charge per app. Try DuckyHelper for 10 minutes with no card. Plus is $20 a month, $14 a month for your first 3 months. See pricing.

Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later), Windows and Linux. Download DuckyHelper.

No. DuckyHelper is made by MingLLM, Inc. and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Shortcut. It works in Shortcut the same way you do, on your screen.

Try it in Shortcut.Press one key and ask.

It sees Shortcut, explains it out loud and does the work with you.Try it for 10 minutes, no card.

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Questions and jobs

Do anything

Ask it a question or hand it a job, in any app.

Doing jobs for you is in early access on Mac. Asking works on Mac, Windows and Linux.