Stand-up without the board
Before stand-up the lead asks what moved for the platform team since yesterday. Memtro lists the stories updated in that window with their state and owners, and reads the iteration's progress for the points still open.
Shortcut + Memtro
Stories, epics and iterations answered from Shortcut, and updated when you ask.
Connect Shortcut with an API token and Memtro searches stories with Shortcut's own syntax, reads a story with its comments and tasks, reports epic and iteration progress, and translates teams, workflow states and members. The hourly sync writes each updated story into memory as an event and a ticket. When asked, and once an administrator has granted each action by name, it creates and updates stories, epics, iterations, labels and Docs, moves and reassigns stories, comments, manages tasks and links stories, all as you. Followers and owners are notified, and deleting a story or comment is permanent.
In Memtro
What you can do with Shortcut in Memtro
Ask in plain English from chat, your editor, a scheduled job or your own agent. The model picks the right Shortcut tool, reads what it needs, and answers with the source cited.
What it does
- 01Search stories by owner, state, team, epic, type, label or dates with Shortcut's syntax, negations included
- 02One story with its description, comments and their authors, tasks done, external links and deadline
- 03Epics by state, owner or team with stories done, started and total, and iterations with status, dates and progress
- 04Hourly sync writes each updated story into memory as an event and a ticket linked to its owners
- 05When asked and granted, creates or updates stories and epics (state, owners, estimate, iteration, labels, archive), comments, adds and ticks off tasks, links stories, and creates iterations, labels and Docs, all as you
- 06When asked and granted, permanently deletes a story with its comments and tasks, or a single comment
Acts when asked
When you ask it to
These tools change something in Shortcut. The model is told to use them only when you ask for exactly that, and an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it; a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.
- 01Create a story with a type, state, owners, epic and labels
- 02Update a story: move it to a state, reassign it, rename, re-estimate, change epic, iteration or labels, or archive it
- 03Delete a story permanently
- 04Comment on a story, or reply to a comment
- 05Edit a story comment
- 06Delete a story comment permanently
- 07Add a task to a story's checklist
- 08Tick off, reopen, edit or reassign a story's task
- 09Link two stories (blocks, duplicates, relates to)
- 10Create an epic
- 11Update an epic: rename, change state, owners, teams or dates, or archive it
- 12Comment on an epic
- 13Create an iteration
- 14Create a label
- 15Create a Doc
Events
When it happens
Turn events on in the connection's Events tab on the Connections page, then add the address it shows as a webhook in Shortcut, choosing the same kinds; the tab shows Shortcut's own steps. Each event can start a job, with the event as its input. Shortcut signs every delivery, and one whose signature does not check out is refused before it is read.
Events and webhooks- 01A story was created
- 02A story changed (state, owners, estimate, epic...)
- 03A story was deleted
- 04An epic was created
- 05An epic changed
- 06An epic was deleted
In practice
Ask it like you would a colleague
Once Shortcut is connected, these are the kinds of things people ask. Plain questions, no syntax. If the answer lives partly in another system you have connected, Memtro looks there too.
Shortcut + Memtro
Which of Priya's stories are still not done?
What is left in the current iteration for the platform team?
How far along is the Checkout v2 epic, and who owns it?
Create a chore for the platform team called 'Rotate the staging certificates' and assign it to Sam
Move story 4127 to Ready for Review and comment that the fix is on staging
Bug report, filed
Amy Foster pastes a Globex bug report and asks Memtro to file it and link it to the older duplicate. Memtro agrees the title with her, creates it as a bug in the mobile team's Ready for Development state with an owner, who is notified, links the two stories and returns the link.
Teams
Where it fits
The teams that lean on Shortcut most, a question each of them asks, and what they connect beside it.
- ProductHear what customers actually ask forProduct manager, Researcher, Designer, Head of product“Which customers asked for SSO this quarter, and what is their combined ARR?”Used alongside Help Scout, HubSpot, Linear, Jira, Slack and 6 more.
- EngineeringKeep decisions from evaporatingEngineer, Tech lead, On call, New joiner“Who owns the billing migration, and what did we decide about retries?”Used alongside GitHub, Linear, Jira, Confluence, Slack and 5 more.
- OperationsMonitors and digests that run themselvesOperations lead, Analyst, Team manager, Administrator“List my jobs”Used alongside Help Scout, Stripe, Xero, Postgres, ShipEngine and 8 more.
Better together
Works with
A record in Shortcut is rarely the whole story. Connect the systems that hold the rest and Memtro checks them together, then remembers what it learned so the next question starts further along.
- Engineering and operationsShortcut with GitHubIssues, pull requests, code and commits, searchable by anyone who can ask a question.
- Engineering and operationsShortcut with AWS CloudWatchLogs, metrics and alarms from AWS, answered in plain English with the query that found them.
- Engineering and operationsShortcut with SentryAsk what is breaking in production and get the stack trace, not a dashboard.
- Documents and wikisShortcut with NotionSearch pages and query databases, and write to them when you ask.
- Documents and wikisShortcut with Google DriveSearch Drive and read Docs, Sheets and Slides as text, and write a Doc when you ask.
- Documents and wikisShortcut with ConfluenceSearch and read wiki pages, and write them when you ask.
- Email, calendar and chatShortcut with GmailSearch and read mail so the last thread with a customer is one question away, and send the reply when you ask.
- Email, calendar and chatShortcut with SlackSearch messages, read channel history and threads, post when you ask, and answer when mentioned.
- Email, calendar and chatShortcut with Google CalendarMeetings in a window, event details, and the next two weeks synced into memory, and events it can create, change or cancel when you ask.
Also in Work management
Using something else for the same job, or both? Each connector has its own tools; connect as many as you like.
Clio Manage- Linear
- Jira
- Asana
- monday.com
- Airtable
- Basecamp
- Trello
- ClickUp
- Harvest
- Productboard
- Todoist
YouTrack- Baserow
Canny- Clockify
- Everhour
Float
Productive
Smartsheet- Teamwork.com
- Toggl Track
Wrike
Financial Cents
Karbon
Scoro
Kanboard
Kimai
Leantime- OpenProject
- Plane
- Redmine
- Vikunja
Acuity Scheduling
Luma
Tito
Fellow
Samsara
ServiceM8
Cliniko
Fleetio
SavvyCal
Chili Piper
Humanitix
Circleback
Aha!
Tempo- RotaCloud
Smoobu
Semble- airfocus
Airmeet
Beds24
Bookeo
Commusoft- Favro
Fergus
Fixflo- Hostaway
- Hostfully
Housecall Pro- Motion
Nookal
Paymo
ProductPlan
SimplyBook.me- Synchroteam
TimeCamp
Workiz- Zuper
Guesty
Buildium
Skilljar
Runn
Clockodo
Setup
How to connect
Connect withAPI token
- 1
In Shortcut open Settings → API Tokens, give the token a name and click Generate Token. It acts as you, so Memtro reads what you can see and anything it creates or changes is done by you
- 2
Copy the token: Shortcut shows it once. It allows 200 API requests per minute per token
- 3
In Memtro open Connections → Shortcut, paste the API token and connect. Stories updated in the last 7 days sync within the hour
- 4
Ask which of your stories are not done, or what is left in the current iteration
Also works from
Chat in the dashboard, the OpenAI-compatible API, scheduled jobs, and any MCP client: Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Claude Desktop. The Shortcut tools are the same everywhere.
FAQ
Questions
Can Memtro change anything in Shortcut?+
Only when you ask, and only what it has been granted: create a story with a type, state, owners, epic and labels; update a story: move it to a state, reassign it, rename, re-estimate, change epic, iteration or labels, or archive it; delete a story permanently; comment on a story, or reply to a comment; edit a story comment; delete a story comment permanently; add a task to a story's checklist; tick off, reopen, edit or reassign a story's task; link two stories (blocks, duplicates, relates to); create an epic; update an epic: rename, change state, owners, teams or dates, or archive it; comment on an epic; create an iteration; create a label; create a Doc. Every other tool reads, searches or lists. The Connections page labels the tools that act, an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it, and a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.
Who can use a Shortcut connection?+
A personal connection serves only your own requests. A shared connection serves the organisation: everyone, or only the teams an admin chooses. Admins can always add shared connections; other members need the permission.
Does Memtro store my Shortcut data?+
Credentials are encrypted at rest. Tool results are cached briefly so agent loops do not repeat identical calls, and the facts the model extracts are saved to your organisation's memory with provenance (system, record and link) so they can be checked and superseded. An hourly sync anchors recently changed Shortcut records into memory as entities.
How do I connect Shortcut?+
API token. In Shortcut open Settings → API Tokens, give the token a name and click Generate Token. It acts as you, so Memtro reads what you can see and anything it creates or changes is done by you.
Can Shortcut start a job?+
Yes. Turn events on in the connection's Events tab on the Connections page, then add the address it shows as a webhook in Shortcut, choosing the same kinds; the tab shows Shortcut's own steps. A job set to start "When an event arrives" then runs once for each matching event, with the event as its input. The run treats the event as outside data, never as instructions, and anything the run remembers is kept as unverified.
Connect Shortcut in a few minutes
Seven-day free trial, then one monthly price per organisation. Connectors, jobs and memory are never metered.