Clip

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claude · ~/work/app · clip

› fix the failing auth test and add an audit log call ⏺ Read(src/auth.ts) ⎿ Read 6 lines ⏺ Update(src/auth.ts) ⎿ Added 2 lines, removed 1 line ⏺ Bash(bun test) ⎿ 3 pass, 1 fail ● Done. refresh now rejects expired claims and logs an audit event. ✻ Worked for 42s · done 4:20 PM › /clip ⎿ clip: Nothing to copy. /clip <text> puts that text on your clipboard. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── › ? for shortcuts

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Put text on your clipboard straight from the prompt, cleaned of the clutter a terminal drags along with it, so you never have to select and copy text out of the terminal by hand.

/clip <text> puts that text on your clipboard.

If /clip already belongs to something of yours, a skill or another mod, Clip answers to /clipboard <text> instead.

Clip strips box edges, prompt marks and trailing spaces from every line, and blank lines from the top and bottom, before it copies.

It uses your system's own clipboard program: PowerShell's Set-Clipboard on Windows, pbcopy on macOS, and wl-copy or xclip on Linux. Nothing is sent anywhere else.

What it runs and sends

Nothing goes to any service. Here is each thing, plainly.

What it sends, and where.

The text you give /clip goes to your own clipboard program, on this machine, through its standard input. That is the only place it goes.
The way out is $.process.run, Claude Code's call for starting a program on your machine. Clip uses it only to start the clipboard program below.
It sends nothing over the network.

Which programs it runs, and why.

One clipboard program, to put your text on the clipboard. It tries these in order and stops at the first that works:
Windows: powershell.exe -NoProfile -Command "$input | Set-Clipboard"
macOS: pbcopy
Linux with Wayland: wl-copy
Linux with X11: xclip -selection clipboard
Each command is fixed text in the mod. Your text never goes into the command. It goes in on standard input.
Each try stops after 5 seconds. It runs only when you type /clip.

What it puts in the prompts it submits.

It submits no prompts. It never touches your prompt box.

What each hook does.

session.start: adds the /clip command, or /clipboard when /clip is taken.
command.run for clip and clipboard: cleans the text you typed, runs the clipboard program, and says how many characters it copied.

Tested with Claude Code 2.1.287 on Windows.

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Source 1 files

hooks/register.ts 60 lines

1import type { EngineInterface, Register } from 'claude-code'
2
3// Text copied out of a terminal drags the terminal along with it: box edges,
4// prompt marks and padding. Clip strips those before the text lands.
5function clean(text: string): string {
6  const lines = text.split(/\r?\n/).map(line =>
7    line
8      .replace(/^\s*[│┃|]\s?/, '')
9      .replace(/\s?[│┃|]\s*$/, '')
10      .replace(/^\s*[>❯$]\s+/, '')
11      .replace(/\s+$/, ''),
12  )
13  while (lines.length && !lines[0]) lines.shift()
14  while (lines.length && !lines[lines.length - 1]) lines.pop()
15  return lines.join('\n')
16}
17
18// Each system's own clipboard program, tried in order; the first that runs wins.
19const COPIERS: readonly (readonly string[])[] = [
20  ['powershell.exe', '-NoProfile', '-Command', '$input | Set-Clipboard'],
21  ['pbcopy'],
22  ['wl-copy'],
23  ['xclip', '-selection', 'clipboard'],
24]
25
26async function copy($: EngineInterface, text: string): Promise<boolean> {
27  for (const argv of COPIERS) {
28    const ran = await $.process.run(argv, { stdin: text, timeoutMs: 5000 }).catch(() => null)
29    if (ran && ran.exitCode === 0) return true
30  }
31  return false
32}
33
34export const register: Register = on => {
35  // /clip can already belong to something of yours, a skill or another mod. When
36  // it does, the mod answers to /clipboard instead, and the start carries on.
37  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
38    const NAMES = ['clip', 'clipboard']
39    for (const name of NAMES) {
40      const ok = await $.command
41        .register({ name, description: `Put text on your clipboard, cleaned of terminal clutter. /${name} <text>` })
42        .then(() => true, () => false)
43      if (ok) break
44    }
45    return next(e)
46  })
47
48  on('command.run', { command: 'clip' }, async ($, e) => ({ text: await clipText($, e.args) }))
49  on('command.run', { command: 'clipboard' }, async ($, e) => ({ text: await clipText($, e.args) }))
50}
51
52async function clipText($: EngineInterface, args: string): Promise<string> {
53  const text = clean(args)
54  if (!text) return 'Nothing to copy. /clip <text> puts that text on your clipboard.'
55  const ok = await copy($, text)
56  if (!ok) return 'No clipboard program answered on this machine, so nothing was copied.'
57  const chars = [...text].length
58  return `📎 On your clipboard: ${chars} character${chars === 1 ? '' : 's'}.`
59}
60