Ctrl Clip

⧉ ctrl-clip

Put text on the user's clipboard so it pastes cleanly. The built-in /copy copies the raw markdown of the last response — blockquotes turn into >/│ pipes and the commentary comes along. This skill copies only the content meant to be pasted, reformatted for its destination.

1. Decide WHAT to copy

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

• If the arguments describe the content ("the Slack reply", "the PR description", "the second draft"), copy that.
• Otherwise copy the most recent drafted message in the conversation (a Slack reply, comment, email, PR text). If the last response had no draft, copy the whole last response.
• Copy only the draft — never your own framing ("Here's a draft:", "Let me know if…", labels, explanations).
• Keep the wording verbatim. Reformat, don't rewrite. Don't translate.

2. Format for the target

First word of the arguments selects the format; default is slack.

slack (default — also Teams, WhatsApp, chat)

• No blockquotes (>), no headings (#), no tables, no horizontal rules.
• Tables → one line per row: Label: value, value.
• Bold: *text* (single asterisks). Italic: _text_. Keep inline `code` and fenced blocks.
• Bullets with - ; blank line between paragraphs.
• Links as bare URLs.

md (PR descriptions, Azure DevOps / GitHub comments, docs)

• Keep standard Markdown (headings, **bold**, lists, tables, code fences).
• Still no blockquotes unless the content genuinely quotes someone.

plain (email body, forms, anything without markup)

• No markup at all: strip *, _, backticks, #. Bullets become - .
• Tables → Label: value lines.

3. Copy

1. Write the formatted text with the Write tool to clip.txt in the session scratchpad directory (fall back to /tmp/claude-clip.txt if there is none). Using a file avoids every shell quoting problem with $, backticks and quotes.
2. Run:

   ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/clip.sh <that file>
   

   The script strips leftover >/│/⏺ markers and trailing whitespace, then copies via wl-copy, xclip, xsel, pbcopy, or OSC 52 (in that order).

4. Confirm

Reply with a single line: the script's ⧉ Copied … output plus the format used, e.g. ⧉ Copied 6 lines / 412 chars (slack). Do not echo the copied text again. If the script fails, show its error line.

Inline ⧉ copy link (whenever you draft a message to paste)

Every draft the user will paste somewhere gets a clickable copy icon (⧉, two overlapping squares) labeled ctrl + click, as a reminder of how to trigger it.

<CLIP_DIR> below is the absolute path of ~/.cache/claude-clip, for example /home/alice/.cache/claude-clip. The "Drafts to paste" rule loaded at session start spells it out. If that rule is not in your context, run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/clip-setup.sh once: it registers the Ctrl+click handler if needed and prints CLIP_DIR=…. Never write ~ or $HOME into a path or link — neither is expanded.

1. Write the formatted text (section 2, no blockquote markers) with the Write tool to <CLIP_DIR>/<id>.claudeclip. <id> is a short unique slug matching [A-Za-z0-9_-]{1,64}, e.g. slack-33247-review.
2. In the response, show the draft as a blockquote — every line prefixed with > , blank lines as >. The bar is how the user sees exactly what gets copied; nothing else goes inside it.
3. Right under the blockquote, on its own line: [⧉ ctrl + click](file://<CLIP_DIR>/<id>.claudeclip)

The user Ctrl+clicks the link (a plain click does nothing). If copying breaks, check <CLIP_DIR>/handler.log first — no entry means the click never reached the handler.

Why file://: Claude Code's fullscreen TUI refuses clicks on non-allowlisted schemes (custom claude-clip:// links are never dispatched), but it opens local file:// links with xdg-open. *.claudeclip is registered as application/x-claude-clip, whose default app is clip-url-handler.sh: it copies the file via clip.sh and shows a desktop notification.