My teenagers and my parents send me things they "found" online, so I built them a one-press second set of eyes. It runs on Apple Intelligence inside Shortcuts. No app, no API key, no server. It answers one of three ways: "Looks like a real source" (a link to cnn.com is proof), "Probably meant as a joke" (self-labeled satire like The Onion), or "Worth a second look," with one way to check. A few build notes that might be useful if you're tinkering with Apple Intelligence: - The judgment is a paragraph of plain English in a Text action at the top of the shortcut. Everything else is plumbing: get the input, turn it into text, one Use Model call on Private Cloud Compute, show the answer. - Deciding never to judge truth made it better. It only reasons about the source, and when it can't know something (like which app you're in), it asks you instead of guessing. - I over-built it. It hit 145 actions, with two AI calls, a JSON checklist and regex routing. Cutting back to one prompt and 31 actions kept nearly all of the behavior. - Claude Code built and tested it by generating the shortcut file and running it through Shortcuts on my Mac. The one bug it couldn't catch on the Mac only showed up on my phone: Safari shares a whole web page, not a plain link. - Honest limits: it needs an Apple Intelligence device, Apple's safety filter sometimes refuses money-related content, and it reads text, not images. Shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ea2c2c1388de4238b70a9cec3225bb2c Full write-up: workings.blog/second-look Curious whether anyone else has pushed Use Model further. That's the part I'd most like to compare notes on.   submitted by   /u/being_brighter [link]   [comments]