Automation, Shortcuts & Siri
Save scripts to a palette and schedule them on cron, then drive FrontierStack from Apple Shortcuts, Siri and AppleScript — run scripts, start services, send alerts or ask the AI by voice, hands-free.
Automation at every level
FrontierStack automates from a one-off scheduled script all the way up to a fully agentic loop — and it plugs into the macOS automation tools you already use, so it becomes one step in a bigger workflow rather than another silo.
Use it as the infrastructure authority for an agent
Grok, Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI and other coordinators can connect to FrontierStack over MCP. The agent describes a bounded job and receives only the relevant, currently permitted tools. FrontierStack keeps SSH keys, passwords and cloud credentials on the Mac, applies caller scope and approval rules at execution time, runs the operation on the selected Mac, Linux or Windows host, verifies the result and records it.
Open the MCP Server pane to review detected AI clients. You can set up supported clients individually, run Set Up Detected, or enable setup at launch so FrontierStack repairs only its own credential-free bridge entry while preserving every other MCP server. Network access is separate and explicit: a cloud worker cannot discover the default localhost service. Pair and scope remote callers over TLS, and never give a model raw infrastructure credentials or publish the local MCP port. See Agentic workflows and the MCP setup guide.
1. Saved scripts on a schedule
Keep the command-line steps you run all day in the Scripts palette — a small, always-on-top window — and run them with a click, or schedule them on real system cron: backups, deploys, cache warmers, log rotation. Each saved script is a genuine executable that can target this Mac, a local Docker container or a cloud server over SSH, so what you test by hand is exactly what runs unattended.
2. Apple Shortcuts, Siri & AppleScript
FrontierStack ships native Shortcuts actions (App Intents), so you can wire it into the rest of your Mac — and they come with built-in Siri phrases, so you can trigger them by voice. Drop the same actions into a Shortcut you run with a click, a hotkey, the menu bar or Spotlight, and chain them with anything else Shortcuts can do. They work from Automator too — because Automator can run Shortcuts and AppleScript, the actions slot into an Automator workflow or Folder Action. Actions include:
- Run Server Script — run any saved script by name
- Start / Stop Service Group, Restart Service, Restart Docker Container
- Get Local Health, Get Server Status, List Servers, List Docker Containers
- Apply Sidebar Preset, Flush DNS Cache, Send Notification
- Ask Server Assistant — send a plain-English question to the AI Administrator and get the answer back into your workflow
Prefer voice? The built-in Siri phrases mean you can just say “Check server health with FrontierStack”, “Start my servers with FrontierStack” or “Ask FrontierStack…”. Prefer URLs? Every pane, server, site, container and Cloudflare zone has a frontierstack:// deep link, so an AppleScript or a shell step like open frontierstack://pane/Security jumps straight there — handy from Automator’s “Run Shell Script”, a launcher or any script runner.
3. Alerts & agents that run themselves
The monitoring sweep turns the first sign of trouble into a message on your channels automatically, and you can build agents — goal-driven loops that run once or on a schedule — to watch something or do real work without you. See Alerts and the AI Administrator.
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