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clipboard-mcp

stdionone★ 2productivity

MCP server that reads and writes the system clipboard â tables, text, code, JSON, URLs, images, and more. Preserves spreadsheet structure (rows/columns) that is lost when pasting into Claude directly. Claude can also write results back to your clipboard.

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Install

How to run this server

[ { "cmd": "uvx mcp-clipboard", "imports": [] } ]

server path: clipboard-mcp

Tools

What this server exposes

clipboard_paste

Read any clipboard content: tables, text, code, JSON, URLs, images. Tables are formatted as Markdown/JSON/CSV; pass `include_schema=true` to append inferred column types. Images are returned as image content the model can see. Optional `selection="primary"` reads the X11/Wayland PRIMARY selection (middle-click / select-text-to-paste buffer) instead of the default Ctrl-C clipboard.

clipboard_copy

Write text content to the system clipboard. Accepts an optional `mime_type` parameter (`text/plain` by default; also `text/html`, `text/rtf`, `image/svg+xml`, or any `text/*` on Wayland/X11).

clipboard_copy_markdown

Render markdown to HTML and place both formats on the clipboard so paste targets pick the right one — Slack/Gmail/Notion/Discord get rich text; vim/terminal get the source. macOS/Windows write both atomically; Wayland/X11 are single-MIME and write only `text/html`.

clipboard_copy_image

Write a PNG or JPEG image to the system clipboard from base64-encoded bytes. Pass-through with no re-encoding; magic bytes are validated against the declared MIME. Use `clipboard_copy` for text.

clipboard_list_formats

List what MIME types are currently on the clipboard. Accepts `selection="primary"` for the X11/Wayland PRIMARY selection.

clipboard_read_raw

Return raw clipboard content for a given MIME type (diagnostic). Any non-binary type passes through; only `image/*`, `audio/*`, `video/*`, and `application/octet-stream` are rejected. Use `clipboard_paste` for images. Accepts `selection="primary"` for the X11/Wayland PRIMARY selection.

clipboard_version

Return the running mcp-clipboard package version as `{"name": "mcp-clipboard", "version": "<x.y.z>"}`. Diagnostic. Useful for hosts that don't surface the standard MCP `serverInfo` block to the model, and for test harnesses that need to record which build served a given run.

Configuration

Environment & auth

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Resources

githubhttps://github.com/cmeans/clipboard-mcp ↗