Shortcut Launches Shortcut for Agents to Bring AI Teammates Directly into Product Development Workflows

NEW YORK, May 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Shortcut, the collaborative home for software development teams, today announced the general availability of Shortcut for Agents, a major new capability in its platform that allows teams to assign work directly to AI agents. With Shortcut for Agents, product and engineering teams can integrate AI teammates directly into their workflows, inside of Shortcut, accelerating execution without adding complexity. This launch represents a major step forward in how teams plan, build, and ship faster with the help of AI. Shortcut for Agents is available today and included in Shortcut's 14-day free trial at https://www.shortcut.com.

With Shortcut for Agents, modern product teams can bring specialized AI agents into their existing development workflows. Teams can assign Stories directly to AI agents, tag them in comments, track their progress, and collaborate without leaving the Shortcut environment they already know.

Third-party agents, such as Devin.ai from Cognition Labs, can now be activated in Shortcut by simply assigning them as Story owners. Once assigned, agents like Devin.ai can automatically progress Stories through key workflow stages, such as "In Development" and "Ready for Review," while keeping all communication and updates within Story comments to preserve context.

This seamless integration minimizes manual busywork and allows product and engineering teams to stay focused on high-impact work, while AI agents handle task execution behind the scenes.

Alongside Shortcut for Agents, Shortcut is introducing Korey, its own intelligent project management agent, currently available in beta.

Korey takes on the busywork of story management so your team doesn't have to. Korey writes and structures development-ready Stories, breaks down work into clear, actionable Sub-tasks, and translates fuzzy requirements into precise, build-ready plans. Korey also keeps your team aligned by providing real-time status updates, documenting technical decisions, and tracking dependencies.

Teams can interact with Korey through a dedicated web interface, Slack mentions (@korey), or by assigning Stories inside Shortcut. All interactions stay synchronized across platforms, making it easy for teams to track conversations and watch work progress in real-time.

Over time, Korey will continue to expand its capabilities, including drafting release notes, building out Epics and Objectives, and pulling in context from other tools to further improve its output.

Together, Shortcut for Agents and Korey mark a new era of product development. One where human teams and AI agents collaborate naturally, seamlessly, and productively.

"Shortcut for Agents represents a huge step forward in how teams work with AI," said Kurt Schrader, CEO of Shortcut. "We believe the best tools don't add complexity, they make it easier for teams to stay focused on building. With Shortcut for Agents and Korey, we're making AI a natural part of how teams ship products. Our mission has always been to help teams move from idea to execution as fast as possible, and this launch takes that to the next level."

Shortcut for Agents is available today and is included in all Shortcut plans. Soon, teams will be able to bring their own AI agents into Shortcut and start collaborating using the Shortcut Agent API. Learn more at https://shortcut.com/agents.

Korey, Shortcut's intelligent project management agent, is currently available in beta. Learn more and join the waitlist at https://korey.ai/.

About Shortcut

Shortcut, formerly known as Clubhouse, is the world's best product development platform for product engineering teams. Thousands of companies all over the world use Shortcut to plan, collaborate and build better software together. The company is fully remote and backed by Greylock Partners, Battery Ventures and other top tier investors. For more information, visit https://www.shortcut.com or follow @shortcut on X.

SOURCE Shortcut