clipboard-mcp-server MCP Server

Read, write, and inspect the system clipboard on macOS, Linux (X11/Wayland), and Windows via MCP.

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Published as @cyanheads/clipboard-mcp-server on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

24 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

ux(clipboard_write): HTML plain-text fallback strips tags but not script/style content, and loses word spacing between block elements

clipboard_write with format: "html" generates a plain-text fallback by stripping HTML tags. The current stripHtmlTags implementation has two quality issues: it includes inline content from <script> and <style> tags in the output, and it drops word boundaries between adjacent block elements.

Server version

0.1.1

mcp-ts-core version

0.9.9

Runtime

Bun

Runtime version

1.3.11

Transport

HTTP (StreamableHTTP)

Description

When writing `

Title

Body

Read the thread · 2026-05-25 · closed · 2 comments

bug(clipboard_read): text format returns empty string on empty clipboard instead of format_unavailable

clipboard_read with format: "text" returns a successful empty-string response when the clipboard is completely empty, while clipboard_inspect correctly reports primaryFormat: "empty" and clipboard_read with format: "auto" correctly returns format_unavailable.

Server version

0.1.1

mcp-ts-core version

0.9.9

Runtime

Bun

Runtime version

1.3.11

Transport

HTTP (StreamableHTTP)

Description

On macOS, pbpaste returns an empty string when the clipboard i

Read the thread · 2026-05-25 · closed · 2 comments

bug(clipboard_read): RTF read throws internal TypeError instead of format_unavailable when RTF is absent

clipboard_read with format: "rtf" throws an internal TypeError (-32603 InternalError) instead of the declared format_unavailable contract error when RTF is not on the clipboard.

Server version

0.1.1

mcp-ts-core version

0.9.9

Runtime

Bun

Runtime version

1.3.11

Transport

HTTP (StreamableHTTP)

Description

Requesting format: "rtf" when the clipboard contains only text or HTML returns a cryptic internal error. The image format correctly returns `forma

Read the thread · 2026-05-25 · closed · 2 comments

bug(clipboard_inspect): avoid buffering Linux payloads for sizes

Server version

0.1.8

mcp-ts-core version

0.12.3

Runtime

Bun

Runtime version

Not runtime-reproduced during validation

Transport

stdio

OS

Linux X11 and Wayland

Description

clipboard_inspect is advertised as metadata-only, but both Linux backends read every recognized representation into a Buffer to calculate byte sizes. A large clipboard can be buffered repeatedly through several text aliases before the tool returns only metadata.

Steps to reproduc

Read the thread · 2026-08-31 · open · 1 comment

bug(macos): file-list pasteboard type is misclassified as an image

Server version

0.1.7

mcp-ts-core version

0.12.3

Runtime

Bun

Runtime version

Bun 1.4.0

Transport

HTTP (Streamable HTTP) (reported; not exercised during this validation)

OS

macOS 26.1 (source review; no live pasteboard reproduction)

Description

utiToFormat() maps NSFilenamesPboardType to semantic image. Apple documents that deprecated pasteboard type as an array of filenames, while JXA_READ_IMAGE reads only public.png, public.tiff, and `com.appl

Read the thread · 2026-07-10 · closed · 1 comment

Most recent

feat(clipboard_write): make clipboard clearing explicit

Use case

Clearing sensitive clipboard content is a normal end-to-end clipboard workflow. Today clipboard_write accepts content: "" and creates a zero-byte text representation, but this destructive behavior is implicit: the tool description does not describe clearing, and clipboard_inspect reports primaryFormat: "text" rather than empty afterward.

Proposal

Add an explicit clear mode to clipboard_write instead of relying on an empty write. Keep this within the existing mutator

Read the thread · 2026-08-31 · open · 0 comments

bug(clipboard_write): decode numeric entities in HTML fallback

Server version

0.1.8

mcp-ts-core version

0.12.3

Runtime

Bun

Runtime version

Bun 1.4.0

Transport

HTTP (Streamable HTTP)

OS

macOS

Description

The plain-text fallback generated by clipboard_write for HTML decodes a small hard-coded entity set but leaves numeric character references unchanged. Text consumers therefore receive entity syntax instead of the represented character.

Related: #3

Steps to reproduce

Call clipboard_write with `{ "format":

Read the thread · 2026-08-31 · open · 0 comments

bug(clipboard_inspect): surface backend and measurement failures

Server version

0.1.8

mcp-ts-core version

0.12.3

Runtime

Bun

Runtime version

Bun 1.4.0

Transport

stdio

OS

macOS, Linux, and Windows backends

Description

clipboard_inspect converts backend decoding and per-format measurement failures into valid-looking empty or zero-byte results. A caller cannot distinguish a genuinely empty clipboard from malformed native output, or a genuine zero-byte representation from a failed size probe.

Steps to reproduce

Read the thread · 2026-08-31 · open · 0 comments

bug(clipboard_read): preserve literal payloads in content output

Server version

0.1.8

mcp-ts-core version

0.12.3

Runtime

Bun

Runtime version

Bun 1.4.0

Transport

HTTP (Streamable HTTP)

OS

macOS

Description

clipboard_read appends text, HTML, and RTF payloads directly to the Markdown content[] block. Clipboard bytes remain intact in structuredContent.content, but content-only clients can interpret tags and Markdown metacharacters instead of receiving the literal clipboard representation.

Related: #6

Steps to r

Read the thread · 2026-08-31 · open · 0 comments

bug(linux-wayland): wait for clipboard write completion

Server version

0.1.8

mcp-ts-core version

0.12.3

Runtime

Bun

Runtime version

Not runtime-reproduced during validation

Transport

stdio

OS

Linux Wayland

Description

LinuxWaylandBackend.write() reports success 50 ms after wl-copy emits spawn, without waiting for stdin to finish flushing or for clipboard ownership to be established. A slow or backpressured write can therefore return success while bytes are still pending, and later stream errors have no p

Read the thread · 2026-08-31 · open · 0 comments

bug(clipboard_read): populate image dimensions on Linux

Server version

0.1.8

mcp-ts-core version

0.12.3

Runtime

Bun

Runtime version

Not runtime-reproduced during validation

Transport

stdio

OS

Linux X11 and Wayland

Description

The public clipboard_read contract says image reads return PNG data with dimensions, but the X11 and Wayland backends return only { format, content }. width and height are populated on macOS and Windows and silently absent on Linux.

Steps to reproduce

Put an image/png r

Read the thread · 2026-08-31 · open · 0 comments

bug(clipboard_write): HTTP body cap preempts typed size recovery

Server version

0.1.8

mcp-ts-core version

0.12.3

Runtime

Bun

Runtime version

Bun 1.4.0

Transport

HTTP (Streamable HTTP)

OS

macOS

Description

clipboard_write declares a 1 MiB content limit and a typed content_too_large recovery, but the HTTP transport's default 1 MiB request-body limit rejects the JSON-RPC envelope before the handler can run. The advertised tool error is therefore unreachable over HTTP, and content slightly below the tool limit can stil

Read the thread · 2026-08-31 · open · 0 comments

See all 19 reports Pod holds for clipboard-mcp-server — of 24 qualified upstream.

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