clipboard_read_raw

MCP tool from MCP Clipboard by cmeans

Return raw clipboard content for a given MIME type (diagnostic). Any non-binary type passes through; only image/, audio/, video/, and application/octet-stream are rejected. Use clipboardpaste for images. Accepts selection="primary" for the X11/Wayland PRIMARY selection.

How to use it

Project documentation lists clipboard_read_raw for the MCP Clipboard MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), then check which tools your installed version makes available. Tool availability can depend on configuration and credentials. A server handshake does not verify this tool’s behavior. See the full listing for setup details.

Install MCP Clipboard

$pipx run mcp-clipboard
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Other tools in MCP Clipboard (7)

clipboard_copy

Write text content to the system clipboard. Accepts an optional mimetype parameter (text/plain by default; also text/html, text/rtf, image/svg+xml, or any text/ on Wayland/X11).

clipboard_copy_image

Write a PNG or JPEG image to the system clipboard from base64-encoded bytes. Pass-through with no re-encoding; magic bytes are validated against the declared MIME. Use clipboardcopy for text.

clipboard_copy_markdown

Render markdown to HTML and place both formats on the clipboard so paste targets pick the right one — Slack/Gmail/Notion/Discord get rich text; vim/terminal get the source. macOS/Windows write both atomically; Wayland/X11 are single-MIME and write only text/html.

clipboard_list_formats

List what MIME types are currently on the clipboard. Accepts selection="primary" for the X11/Wayland PRIMARY selection.

clipboard_paste

Primary tool. Read any clipboard content: tables, text, code, JSON, URLs, images. Tables are formatted as Markdown/JSON/CSV; pass includeschema=true to append inferred column types. Images are returned as image content the model can see. Optional selection="primary" reads the X11/Wayland PRIMARY sel

clipboard_version

Return the running mcp-clipboard package version as {"name": "mcp-clipboard", "version": "<x.y.z>"}. Diagnostic. Useful for hosts that don't surface the standard MCP serverInfo block to the model, and for test harnesses that need to record which build served a given run.

macOS

Built-in