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Shortcut redesigns its API for AI agents and pushes Korey beyond its own walls.

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◆Current state
Shortcut is making concrete bets on agent-based work. API v4 entered alpha on May 12 with explicit framing around expanded capabilities and 'agent compatibility' — a positioning shift, not just a version bump. Their in-house AI assistant Korey is expanding outward: right-click access in February, then a dedicated Chrome extension in April that runs on any webpage. Around the strategic work, smaller improvements (Teams on Roadmap, March's SLA Alerts) keep shipping, alongside feed-noise from brand-guide pages being scraped as if they were releases.
◆Where it's heading
Shortcut is positioning itself as the project-management surface that AI agents naturally operate against, not just a PM tool with AI features bolted on. Korey is being pushed from in-app helper toward general-purpose web assistant; the API is being redesigned with external agent consumers in mind. That's a coherent strategic stance the bigger PM players — Jira, Linear, Asana — have not yet made as explicitly. Underlying release cadence stays steady, suggesting these are strategic plays, not panicked pivots.
◆Prediction
Expect API v4 to surface MCP-style tooling endpoints and structured action surfaces aimed squarely at agent frameworks. Korey's Chrome extension is likely a stepping stone toward a 'Korey anywhere' positioning — deeper integrations with browser, email, and calendar are the natural next dominoes.

◆Recent moves

  1. 9d ago

    API v4 alpha now available

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    API v4 alpha opens with explicit framing around agent compatibility — the clearest signal yet that Shortcut sees external AI agents, not just in-app features, as the work-management primitive worth designing for.

  2. 1mo ago

    Korey Chrome Extension

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    Korey, Shortcut's in-house AI assistant, is now a Chrome extension that floats on any webpage. The assistant moves out of the Shortcut app and into the user's general browsing surface — a meaningful expansion of what 'Shortcut' even is.

  3. 1mo ago

    Teams on Roadmap

    Small visual addition to the Roadmap — Epic team owners now appear on the timeline bars. Tiny but useful for cross-team planning views; sits well below the strategic API and AI work.

  4. 1mo ago

    Brand-guide page (logo) ingested by feed

    Not a release — this is the brand-guide logo page being scraped into the changelog feed. Should be filtered upstream.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Brand-guide page (colors) ingested by feed

    Not a release — brand-guide color palette page picked up by the scraper. Same upstream-noise pattern as the logo page entry.

  6. 1mo ago

    Release-notes index aggregation (no new content)

    Aggregate dump of the weekly release-notes index rather than a new release — SLA Alerts and Korey right-click are restated from earlier shipments.

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