# mcp-clipstream

> MCP server + persistent TUI for clean clipboard capture from Claude Code sessions

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-clipstream/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/shamis6ali/mcp-clipstream
- repository: https://github.com/shamis6ali/mcp-clipstream
- version: 0.3.2
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: claude-code, clipboard, mcp, textual, tui
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-clipstream

### Description (declared)

# mcp-clipstream

**Clean clipboard capture for Claude Code.** An MCP server that pushes
copyable text into a persistent, scrollable TUI buffer — *before* the
terminal renderer mangles it with ANSI codes, box-drawing characters,
indentation padding, or hard line breaks.

> Status: **v0.3.1 (alpha)** — `clip`, `clip_table`, `clip_code`, `clip_cmd` tools; syntax-highlighted previews; per-kind row colours; live search (`f`), session filter (`s`), expand view (`e`); at-copy-time format picker for tables. macOS-tested. See the [roadmap](#roadmap) for what's next.

## Why

Copying text from Claude Code's terminal output is broken in ways that
have been documented for nearly a year (issues
[#4686](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/4686),
[#5097](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/5097),
[#15199](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/15199),
[#18170](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18170),
[#26016](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/26016),
[#35446](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/35446)):
extra spaces in code blocks, vertical bars from TUI renderer, hard line
breaks at 80 characters, leading indentation baked in as real
characters. Existing workarounds clean up *after* the damage. This
captures the text *before* the terminal ever touches it.

## How it works

```
 Claude Code ──tool call──▶ MCP server ──UDS──▶ clipstream TUI ──pbcopy──▶ clipboard
                            (mcp-clipstream)    (clipstream)
```

1. `mcp-clipstream` is a small MCP server spawned by Claude Code.
2. It exposes four tools: `clip` (catch-all text), `clip_code` (code blocks
   with a language hint), `clip_cmd` (shell commands with a shell hint),
   and `clip_table` (structured tables). Claude Code picks the right one
   for whatever it's producing.
3. The tool writes the clean text as a JSON message to a Unix domain
   socket at `/tmp/clipstream.sock`.
4. `clipstream` is a Textual TUI you run in a dedicated t…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.terminal (1, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.779, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-clipstream/ (first seen 2026-09-10T00:24:59.997Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-clipstream/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-clipstream · ARD identifier urn:air::server:mcp-clipstream