Clipwell

A fast, cross-platform clipboard history any app can query, listen to, and drive.

Clipwell is a clipboard‑history manager built as a headless daemon with a thin picker on top. The daemon watches your clipboard, stores typed history in SQLite, and exposes everything over a public API — REST, WebSocket/SSE, and MCP — so the picker, the CLI, editor extensions, and AI agents are all just clients of the same contract.

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Why Clipwell

Fast

The picker is pre‑warmed and appears in about one display frame (≈16 ms measured) on a global hotkey.

A rich picker

Compact & Detail views, hover + Quick Look, type/pin/sensitive filters, grouping by date or source, rename, and a Ctrl+K action palette.

Queryable by anything

REST for one‑shot calls, WebSocket/SSE to stream changes, MCP so AI agents can read and act.

Cross‑platform

Windows, macOS, and Linux behind one clipboard‑watcher interface.

Typed items, favicons, source

Classified (url, github‑pr, jira, email, color, path, code, image), with site favicons, image thumbnails, and the app each item was copied from.

Extensible

Detectors and Ctrl+K actions load as plugins through a small public contract.

Quickstart

git clone https://github.com/aylith-labs/clipwell
cd clipwell
dotnet build
dotnet run --project daemon   # clipboard daemon on http://127.0.0.1:8787
dotnet run --project ui       # the picker — press Alt+Shift+V to summon it

Then copy a few things and press Alt+Shift+V. See Install for per‑OS notes and Scenarios for everyday workflows.