I have a series of shortcuts that I’ve written that use the “Use Model” action to do various things. For example, I have a shortcut “Clipboard Markdown to Notes” that takes the content of the clipboard, creates a new note in Notes, converts the markdown content to rich text, adds it to the note etc.
One key step is to analyze the markdown content with “Use Model” and generate a short descriptive title for the note.
I use the on-device model for this, but sometimes the content and prompt exceed the context window size and the action fails with an error message to that effect.
In that case, I’d like to either repeat the action using the Cloud model, or, if the error was a refusal, to prompt the user to enter a title to use.
I‘ve tried using an IF based on whether the response had any text in it, but that didn’t work. No matter what I’ve tried, I can’t seem to find a way to catch the error from Use Model, determine what the error was, and take appropriate action.
Is there a way to do this?
(And by the way, a huge ”thank you” to whoever had the idea of making AppIntents visible in Shortcuts and adding the Use Model action — has made a huge difference already, and it lets us see what Siri will be able to use as well.)
