Clipboard

Clipboard

Auto-copy to system clipboard, either proactively or via /copy.

Auto-copy (no prompt needed)

Copy automatically when output is clearly paste-worthy:

• Commit messages, PR descriptions
• Code snippets user asked to "write" or "generate"
• Shell commands, curl, SQL queries (not executed)
• Config files, templates, dotfiles
• Critique/feedback meant for sharing

Append (Copied to clipboard) when auto-copying.

Don't auto-copy

• Explanations, tutorials, answers
• Code already written to files
• Conversation, options, suggestions

Manual: /copy

• /copy - copy last response
• /copy <text> - copy specific text

Rich text copy (for reports, analysis, structured content)

Plain text with markdown syntax (e.g. *bold*, ```) does NOT render when pasted into rich text editors — Slack, Notion, Google Docs, email, Linear, etc. only parse markdown when typed, not pasted.

Solution: Set HTML on the clipboard. Rich text editors read public.html and render it natively.

macOS: osascript JXA

osascript -l JavaScript -e '
ObjC.import("AppKit");
var pb = $.NSPasteboard.generalPasteboard;
pb.clearContents;
var html = "<b>Title</b><br><pre>code block</pre>";
pb.setStringForType($(html), "public.html");
pb.setStringForType($("plain text fallback"), "public.utf8-plain-text");
'

Sets both HTML (for rich editors) and plain text (for terminals/plain editors) on the clipboard.

HTML conversion rules

GFM	HTML
## Header	<b>Header</b>
**bold**	<b>bold</b>
_italic_	<i>italic</i>
`code`	<code>code</code>
``` blocks	<pre>...</pre>
- item / • item	• item<br> (or <ul><li>)
Pipe tables	<pre> with manually aligned columns
[text](url)	<a href="url">text</a>
---	<br>
Newlines	<br>
< in content	&lt; (escape for HTML)

When to use rich vs plain

• Rich (HTML): Reports, analysis, tables, anything with formatting meant for sharing
• Plain (pbcopy): Code snippets, shell commands, URLs, raw text

Platform commands

• macOS plain text: pbcopy / pbpaste
• macOS rich text: osascript -l JavaScript (NSPasteboard, see above)
• Linux: xclip -selection clipboard
• WSL: clip.exe

Examples

User: Give me a curl to test the webhook
→ Plain text, use pbcopy

(Copied to clipboard)

User: /copy (after a markdown report with tables and bold)
→ Rich text, convert to HTML, use osascript JXA

(Copied to clipboard)