skinnyandbald/clipboard
skills/clipboard/SKILL.md
Copy generated text to the user's macOS clipboard using pbcopy. Use this skill PROACTIVELY whenever you've just generated content the user will paste somewhere else -- emails, messages, social posts, bios, copy, outreach sequences, or any standalone text block. Also use when the user says "copy", "clipboard", "copy that", "put that on my clipboard", or "I need to paste this". Don't wait for the user to ask -- if you wrote something they'll clearly paste elsewhere, offer to copy it.
$ install --global
skillsauthnpx skillsauth add skinnyandbald/fish-skills clipboardInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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SKILL.md
- name:
- clipboard
- description:
- Copy generated text to the user's macOS clipboard using pbcopy. Use this skill PROACTIVELY whenever you've just generated content the user will paste somewhere else -- emails, messages, social posts, bios, copy, outreach sequences, or any standalone text block. Also use when the user says \"copy\", \"clipboard\", \"copy that\", \"put that on my clipboard\", or \"I need to paste this\". Don't wait for the user to ask -- if you wrote something they'll clearly paste elsewhere, offer to copy it.
Clipboard
Copy generated text content to the user's clipboard.
When to Use
Use this automatically after generating any content the user will paste into another app:
- Emails (cold outreach, follow-ups, replies)
- Social posts (LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Threads)
- Messages (Slack, iMessage, WhatsApp)
- Bios, taglines, ad copy
- Any standalone text block the user asked you to write
Also use when the user explicitly asks to copy something.
How It Works
Write the content to a temp file and pipe it to pbcopy. This avoids heredoc indentation issues that cause unwanted leading spaces:
TMPFILE=$(mktemp) && cat > "$TMPFILE" << 'CLIPBOARD'
[content here -- start at column 0, no leading indentation]
CLIPBOARD
pbcopy < "$TMPFILE" && rm "$TMPFILE"
IMPORTANT: The heredoc content MUST start at column 0 (no indentation). The Bash tool may indent your command, but the text between the heredoc markers must not have leading whitespace. If the content itself contains single quotes or special characters, the <<'CLIPBOARD' quoting handles it.
Alternative for short content (under ~1000 chars): use printf '%s' piped to pbcopy. But for longer emails and multi-paragraph content, the temp file approach is more reliable.
Rules
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Strip markdown formatting before copying. The user is pasting into email clients, social platforms, or messaging apps -- not markdown renderers. Convert:
**bold**to plain text (no asterisks)[link text](url)to just the URL on its own line, orlink text: urlif context helps- Headers (
##) to plain text - Bullet points (
-) to bullet points (these are fine, most apps handle them)
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Don't include subject lines in the body. If the content is an email with a subject line, mention the subject line in your response text but don't include "Subject: ..." in the clipboard content. The user will type the subject into their email client's subject field separately.
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Confirm what was copied. After copying, tell the user briefly: "Copied to clipboard." If there are placeholders they need to fill in (like
[REPO LINK]), call those out. -
One clipboard operation per turn. If you generated multiple pieces of content (e.g., an email + a social post), copy the primary one and mention you can copy the other if needed.
Platform Detection
macOS: pbcopy (default -- this is Ben's setup)
Linux: xclip -selection clipboard or xsel --clipboard
WSL: clip.exe
Check uname if unsure, but default to pbcopy.
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