Linden Tibbets

The interesting shift in AI right now isn't smarter answers. It's that the models are starting to act — send, post, buy, book. Which makes the boring question the big one: can you trust what it just did? Human understandable structure is what makes an agent safe to set and forget.

MCP's the right idea, but collectively aimed at the wrong audience. Easy to connect, impossible to maintain auth without daily/weekly upkeep. Missing triggers. Endless permission prompts. Eats up huge chunks of your context window. It won't really take off until it's treated as a protocol for everyone using AI to get work done, not just engineers.

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Grok just landed on IFTTT. Here's the thing about AI assistants: great at deciding what to do, useless at reliably doing it across your 200 other tools. That's the part we handle. Plug Grok into an applet and it actually acts — the same way, every time. ifttt.com/grok

AI agents hit 66% task success this year, up from 12% (Stanford AI Index). Everyone reads that as "structure is dead — just let the agent figure it out." I read it the opposite way. The more an agent does for you, the more you need to see and trust what it did. Structure is the feature.

The narrative going around: AI agents will make "if this then that" automation obsolete. Maybe someday. But we're not in the year of agents — we're in the decade of them. Until then, the tools people actually rely on pair agent smarts with structure they can see and trust.

@Kalshi + @Polymarket are here. 🌍 Set custom price threshold alerts, get notified the second a market resolves, and automatically log every move to @googlesheets , so your prediction game is always one step ahead. ifttt.com/kalshi | ifttt.com/polymarket

Your smart home just got a serious upgrade. @itsmagicwonders + IFTTT is now live 🪄 Control your lights, locks, and security with motion-based gestures. ifttt.com/magicwonders

Heiman Home is now on IFTTT 🏠 Connect your smoke, CO, water, and motion sensors to the rest of your home - and get alerted the moment something's off, wherever you are. Check out the Applets: ifttt.com/heimanhome

Your monday.com board shouldn't live in a vacuum. New task → Slack notification Status update → email alert Deadline approaching → calendar event All of it, automatic. Give it a try: ifttt.com/monday

The manual "hey I just uploaded a file" message is officially over. With the IFTTT MCP, ping your @MicrosoftTeams channel automatically every time a new file hits your shared @onedrive folder. Set it up: ifttt.com/mcp

Buffer's API is here. One API. Ten social platforms. ⚡ Publish and schedule social posts from your own backend or automation stack. 🔎 GraphQL, so you query exactly what you need, nothing more. 🖥️ A CLI that lets you or your coding agents interact with Buffer's API without leaving the terminal. 🔑 OAuth is fully managed, so building third-party integrations doesn't mean inventing your own auth pattern. 🤖 An MCP server, so AI agents like Claude can draft, schedule, and manage your queue directly. 🔗 Integrates seamlessly with no-code automation tools like Zapier, n8n, and IFTTT. 🛝 An interactive playground to test GraphQL queries and see results in real time. 🆓 Available on all plans, even free

Your screenshot folder is a crime scene. This Applet is the cleanup crew. 😉 ifttt.com/applets/bW5KAD…

Basecamp + IFTTT is now live 💬 Connect your projects to the rest of your workflow. Trigger actions across your stack whenever something happens in @basecamp ifttt.com/basecamp

Now that @onedrive is on IFTTT here are some ways you can use it. New photo on your phone → auto-backed up Email attachment received → saved to folder Form submitted → file created Your files, handled. Try it today: ifttt.com/onedrive

@WooCommerce + IFTTT is live 🛒 New order? Slack your team. New product? Post it. Sync your store with every tool you already use. No dev work needed. ifttt.com/woocommerce

Microsoft OneDrive is on IFTTT 🗂️ Back up files, sync across services, and keep your documents organized, automatically. ✨ Connect @onedrive to 1,000+ apps today. ifttt.com/onedrive

We've been building connections between apps for over a decade. Now we're bringing that to AI. 🚀 Introducing IFTTT MCP. Your AI assistant will never be the same. Learn more about it here: ifttt.com/explore/previe…

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