Mac Clipboard Manager Just Copy Adds Built-in MCP to Feed AI Assistants Your Clipboard History
meezus_truth · reddit · 2026-10-12
Just Copy (a Mac/iPhone clipboard manager, $29.99 one-time for the Mac version) ships with a local MCP server that lets AI assistants search your clipboard history directly—since most context handed to AI passes through the clipboard anyway.
Key points:
- The server runs inside the Mac app, listening on loopback only, protected by a bearer token, and off by default
- Read tools include clipboardsearch, clipboardlistrecent, clipboardget (including screenshots), and clipboardcontext (a whole folder as one block)
- The sole write tool, clipboardput, requires explicit authorization
- Privacy gates: passwords, hidden clips, clips from excluded apps, and anything resembling keys/tokens never leave the device
- Settings offer one-click connections for Claude Code/Desktop, Cursor, and Codex, plus a CLI
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