jcalixte/skills/clip

Clip

Copy a relevant prior suggestion from the current conversation into the macOS clipboard.

When to use

• The user invokes /clip (with or without an argument).
• The user says "copy that", "put that in my clipboard", "clip the X".

Only consider prior assistant turns in this conversation as the source — never the user's own messages, and never content from files unless the user explicitly asks for that.

How to pick what to copy

1. If /clip has an argument, treat it as a selector and pick the matching suggestion (e.g. /clip the docker command, /clip the second function, /clip the SQL query).
2. If no argument, default to the most recent concrete suggestion (code block, shell command, config snippet, or short body of advice) in the conversation.
3. If multiple candidates are plausible and the choice isn't obvious, list them as a short numbered menu (one line each, summarised) and ask the user to pick. Do not copy a guess.

Strip surrounding prose — copy only the raw payload (the code, the command, the value), not Claude's explanation around it. If the user explicitly wants the prose too, include it.

How to copy

Use the Bash tool with a quoted heredoc so nothing in the content is expanded by the shell:

pbcopy <<'CLIP_EOF'
<content goes here verbatim>
CLIP_EOF

Use a delimiter unlikely to appear in the content (CLIP_EOF is fine for almost everything).

After copying

Confirm in one short line what was copied — describe it, don't paste it back. Examples:

• "Copied the docker compose up command (1 line)."
• "Copied the parseConfig function (24 lines)."
• "Copied the migration SQL (3 statements)."

Safety

• If the content looks like a secret (API key, password, token, private key), ask before copying.
• Never run any other side effects — this skill only writes to the clipboard.

Platform note

Default to pbcopy (macOS). If on Linux, fall back to xclip -selection clipboard or wl-copy; on Windows, clip.exe. Only switch if pbcopy isn't available.