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Clipboard MCP Server

Read and write the system clipboard — tables, text, code, JSON, URLs, images, and more.

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Published as mcp-clipboard on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

26 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

X11/Wayland PRIMARY selection support

Summary

Expose the X11 PRIMARY selection (the middle-click / select-text-to-copy buffer) as a separate read source. Wayland has an analogous primary selection on most compositors. Today clipboard_paste only reads the CLIPBOARD selection.

Why this is worth building

Power users on Linux rely heavily on PRIMARY for "select-and-paste" workflows — it captures whatever text is currently selected, with no explicit copy step. Tools like Vim, terminal emulators, web browsers, and IDEs all popu

Read the thread · 2026-05-05 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Markdown to rich-text write: paste as formatted in Slack, Gmail, Notion

Summary

Let the model write markdown that pastes as rich text in apps that prefer HTML/RTF (Slack, Gmail, Notion, Word, Google Docs). Closes the read/write asymmetry for formatted text: today we read HTML tables and rich content beautifully but only write plain.

Why this is worth building

The model genuinely cannot do this on its own. Slack/Gmail/etc. promote HTML over plain text when both are on the clipboard, and there is no way to put HTML on the clipboard from the model side without

Read the thread · 2026-05-05 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Image write: put PNG/JPEG on the clipboard

Summary

Add the ability for the model to write an image to the system clipboard. Today clipboard_paste returns images, but the model has no way to put one back. This closes the read/write asymmetry for binary content.

Why this is worth building

This is something the model genuinely cannot do without us:

  • The host model can produce or fetch images via other tools, but cannot reach the OS pasteboard.
  • A user generating a chart, fetching a remote image, or extracting one from a PDF of

Read the thread · 2026-05-05 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

bug: pr-labels-ci.yml contains literal empty ${{ }} in shell comments (parser hazard)

Summary

.github/workflows/pr-labels-ci.yml contains the literal sequence of an empty GitHub Actions expression inside two shell comments. GHA substitutes those expressions inside run: blocks before the shell sees them, including sequences inside shell comments. When the workflow is invoked via workflow_dispatch (or on a fresh-repo registration push-validation path), the queue-time parser treats the empty expression as malformed and returns:

Failed to queue workflow run: Invali

Read the thread · 2026-04-20 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

clipboard_copy does not validate mime_type with _MIME_RE

Problem

clipboard_copy (server.py:386-411) lowercases mime_type and checks the binary-prefix list, but does not validate against _MIME_RE. By contrast, clipboard_read_raw (server.py:307-312) does validate. The unvalidated value reaches wl-copy --type <mime> / xclip -target <mime> on Linux backends.

Impact

Not exploitable - asyncio.create_subprocess_exec blocks shell injection. This is a consistency gap and a hygiene issue: the regex exists, the read path uses it, the w

Read the thread · 2026-04-14 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Most recent

Phase 2: port _windows_read_image and _windows_write_image to pywin32

Tracking issue for the follow-up to PR #146.

PR #146 (the Windows backend pywin32 refactor) is scoped to text formats only -- text/plain, text/html, text/rtf, image/svg+xml, multi-format atomic writes, and list_formats. The image read/write paths (_windows_read_image, _windows_write_image in src/mcp_clipboard/clipboard.py) stay on the PowerShell-subprocess backend in Phase 1 because porting them needs DIB to PNG conversion which is enough additional work to deserve its own PR.

This i

Read the thread · 2026-05-09 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

clipboard_copy(mime_type=image/svg+xml) silently no-ops on CD/Windows in v2.6.1

Summary

On Claude Desktop for Windows running mcp-clipboard v2.6.1 (confirmed via uvx mcp-clipboard --version), clipboard_copy(content=<svg markup>, mime_type=image/svg+xml) silently fails to write to the clipboard. The clipboard's existing contents are unchanged; subsequent reads via clipboard_paste, clipboard_read_raw image/svg+xml, or clipboard_list_formats show no SVG present, only whatever was on the clipboard before the call.

Environment

  • mcp-clipboard: 2.6.1 (PyPI, ser

Read the thread · 2026-05-09 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

clipboard_copy loses non-ASCII bytes on CD/Windows in v2.6.1

Summary

On Claude Desktop for Windows running mcp-clipboard v2.6.1 (confirmed via uvx mcp-clipboard --version), clipboard_copy(content=..., mime_type=text/plain) loses non-ASCII bytes. Em dash (U+2014), curly quotes (U+2018, U+2019, U+201C, U+201D), ellipsis (U+2026), CJK ideographs, Arabic, and emoji all fail to round-trip; the symptom on read-back is either ASCII normalization or the classic Windows codepage ? substitution.

Environment

  • mcp-clipboard: 2.6.1 (PyPI, served via `u

Read the thread · 2026-05-09 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Comprehensive Windows integration test suite (run on real Windows, not Linux mocks)

Context

After #129 (UTF-8 stdin encoding) and #136 (SVG read path) both shipped fixes that escaped Linux-mocked unit tests and only surfaced via QEMU Windows guest testing, it's time to design a comprehensive Windows test suite that runs against a real Windows OS. Current state: tests/test_server.py mocks every Windows code path through unittest.mock.patch on _run / _run_with_stdin, so the actual PowerShell behavior is never exercised in CI. The integration-x11 job runs on Linux an

Read the thread · 2026-05-07 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

SVG clipboard round-trip fails on Windows: clipboard_paste returns 'Clipboard is empty' after clipboard_copy(mime_type=image/svg+xml)

Repro

On a Windows host (originally reported on a QEMU Windows guest):

  1. clipboard_copy(content=<svg>...</svg>, mime_type="image/svg+xml") — reports success: "Copied 307 characters".
  2. clipboard_paste() — returns "Clipboard is empty".

Debug log on the read side shows: DEBUG Image read failed: Unsupported image type: image/svg+xml from server.py.

Why this happens

Three layered gaps in the read path:

  1. _windows_read (clipboard.py:404) — only handles text/html, `tex

Read the thread · 2026-05-07 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

macOS pbcopy text-write paths share the locale-dependent encoding-mismatch class with the fixed Windows bug (#129)

Context

Companion to #129 / #131. While auditing the Windows UTF-8 stdin-encoding fix, the same shape of risk turned up in two macOS write paths. Filing now so it isn't lost; not assigning a priority above low because there's no live repro.

Risk surface

pbcopy reads stdin and converts the byte stream into an NSString to place on NSPasteboard. That conversion uses LC_CTYPE / LANG from the subprocess environment to pick the encoding. If the subprocess inherits a non-UTF-8 lo

Read the thread · 2026-05-07 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

Install ergonomics: smooth out the uvx install path

Context

While discussing the image-write feature earlier, the maintainer noted that getting mcp-clipboard installed via uvx was painful. This issue captures that as a follow-up so the friction points can be enumerated, prioritized, and addressed.

This is a placeholder to land the conversation; it should be expanded with concrete reproduction steps once someone has the bandwidth to walk through a fresh install on each supported platform.

What to capture

For each of Linux (X11 + Waylan

Read the thread · 2026-05-07 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

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