# The Productivity Apps That Don’t Speak Agent Will Lose

<https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2026/05/the-productivity-apps-that-dont-speak-agent-will-lose>

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## What Jamie wrote

This is spot on. I'm looking at you OmniFocus! I also notice that apps are creating MCP bridges using AppleScript interfaces. [Drafts recently did this](https://forums.getdrafts.com/t/drafts-mcp-server-for-claude-ai-integration/16507). Unfortunately these are often not reliable and performant enough. I suspect the AppleScript in the middle is the problem. Agentic support needs to be direct.

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