I am wondering if the new beta Siri AI is or will be able to add various content to the user's clipboard. With Shortcuts we can, Siri itself suggests using Shortcuts, but in the Siri app (on Mac 27.3 dev beta) it does not seem to be available.
For more context, I am struggling to give Siri a schema for putting images from Siri chat into my app
Update: it does not seem to be done with Freeform either
Thank you for your post. Siri does not have a built-in native capability to write arbitrary content directly to NSPasteboard / UIPasteboard out of the box without going through a Shortcut. However I would suggest you to look into AppIntents like @AssistantIntent or use the NSPasteboard API in a custom AppIntent? Looking at the documentation for the restrictions as I never have done such a thing.
In macOS, NSPasteboard.general is accessible without Siri however, nothing stops you from creating a custom AppIntent that uses that API as far as I know. On iOS and iPadOS, UIPasteboard.general works inside AppIntent.perform() but AppIntents on iOS lack direct clipboard write hooks beyond custom AppKit-style extensions.
Read the documetaton well as there are foreground/background restrictions https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appintents/appintent/supportedmodes
Also pasting raises a user alert that prompts the user for approval before the app gains access to pasteboard contents (UIPasteboard.general.string) https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uipastecontrol
Albert
Thank you much Albert!
It makes a lot of sense! I'll look those docs!
I am experimenting with the new 27.3 beta Siri AI schema and try to make Siri in a conversation find some image on the web and save them to my app using custom intents
And what works with regular mcp tools and agents, Siri tends to refuse. I am sure, it has a reason!
