We have a REST API. Apple has Shortcuts, an automation app that can send HTTP requests. Wiring one to the other looked like a free win: "Hey Siri, publish this" → POST to our API → done. No backend, no OAuth, no app to install.
It works. It's on my phone. What I couldn't do — and this is where it got interesting — was build, edit, version, and ship that shortcut from code. Here are the walls I hit, with the exact errors, so you can decide whether to spend an evening the way I spent mine.
What works
The shortcut itself is trivial, three steps:
Ask for Input (text) → "What are we posting?"
