clipboard

Read and write the OS clipboard. Power-up for desktop assistants.

Usage

native-mcp clipboard

No flags.

Backing tools

The server shells out to platform-native clipboard commands. Each must be available on PATH for the server to work on that platform.

OS	Read	Write
Linux (Wayland)	wl-paste --no-newline	wl-copy
Linux (X11 fallback)	xclip -selection clipboard -o	xclip -selection clipboard
macOS	pbpaste	pbcopy
Windows	powershell.exe -Command "Get-Clipboard -Raw"	clip.exe

On Linux, Wayland is preferred when WAYLAND_DISPLAY is set; otherwise xclip is used. Headless servers will not have either — the server returns a clear error in that case.

Tools

read

No arguments. Returns the current clipboard text. Trailing newlines depend on the underlying tool (Wayland's --no-newline is used; X11 returns the clipboard verbatim).

write

Field	Type	Required	Description
text	string	yes	Text to put on the clipboard.

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claude mcp add native-clipboard native-mcp clipboard