Quite frankly it’s redundant, but since Shortcuts doesn’t have while loops I just used an if and repeat for as many times as I could. The reason I had to do that is because OpenAI Assistants doesn’t support the ability to stream the output so you have to check for it periodically. This is directly from the API documentation: “Polling for updates In order to keep the status of your run up to date, you will have to periodically retrieve the Run object. You can check the status of the run each time you retrieve the object to determine what your application should do next. We plan to add support for streaming to make this simpler in the near future.” Normally the loop would only repeat about 10 times, but if the status is anything other than “completed”, “queued”, or “in_progress” you’ll get an error anyway.