Clippy is an MCP server that provides terminal-based clipboard management for macOS, enabling users to copy file references (rather than raw content) to the clipboard so they can be pasted into GUI applications like Slack or email. It offers tools to copy files as references, pipe downloaded data directly to clipboard, access recent downloads, and interactively select filesβall without leaving the terminal. The server solves the fundamental incompatibility between terminal clipboard tools like `pbcopy` (which copy file contents) and GUI applications (which expect file references).
claude mcp add --transport stdio neilberkman-clippy uvx clippy