Clean copy from Claude Code's terminal. No junk, no reformatting, no extra apps.
When you copy from Claude Code's TUI you get rendering artifacts — box-drawing pipes (│ ╭ ╰ ─), trailing terminal padding, indented diff blocks, and sometimes whole multi-line plan boxes collapsed into one long line. Claude Copy intercepts Cmd+C in terminal apps and silently cleans the clipboard before you paste anywhere else.
git clone https://github.com/rblyz/claude-copy.git
cd claude-copy
./install.shgit clone https://github.com/rblyz/claude-copy.git
cd claude-copy
pip3 install pyinstaller -r requirements.txt
python3 -m PyInstaller claude-copy.spec --noconfirm
./install.shGrant Accessibility access (needed to read Cmd+C). The installer prints the exact path:
System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility → + → choose dist/Claude Copy.app
The app then auto-registers in System Settings → General → Login Items → App Background Activity, so it runs at every login.
Four-step pipeline, runs on every clipboard copy from a terminal. No modes, no heuristics, no surprises.
| Step | What | Example |
|---|---|---|
strip_box_drawing |
Removes ╭ ╰ ╮ ╯ ─ ╌ ╍ ═ │ characters; drops pure-border lines |
│ Hello │ → Hello |
rstrip |
Strips trailing whitespace from every line | text··········· → text |
dedent_line_number_block |
Removes uniform leading indent from line-numbered diff blocks | ····42 + foo() → 42 + foo() |
recover_numbered_block |
Splits flattened "1 const ... 2 let ..." lines back into separate lines | 1 const a 2 let b → 1 const a / 2 let b |
Anything else passes through untouched — code blocks, bullet lists, headings, blank lines, plain text from other apps.
- Listens for plain Cmd+C while a terminal app is focused (Ghostty, iTerm2, Terminal, Alacritty, kitty, WezTerm, Warp, and more).
- Re-issues the Cmd+C, waits up to 350 ms for the clipboard to change.
- Runs the four-step pipeline.
- Writes the cleaned text back silently.
Copies from non-terminal apps are never touched. CPU at idle: 0%. Runs as a native macOS app (not Python at runtime).
# stop
launchctl bootout gui/$(id -u)/com.claude-copy
# start
launchctl bootstrap gui/$(id -u) ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.claude-copy.plist
# logs
tail -f /tmp/claude-copy.log
# uninstall
./uninstall.shIf Accessibility access ever gets dropped (e.g. after rebuilding from source), the app shows a system notification and opens the right Settings pane automatically.
- macOS (Sequoia tested)
- Python 3 (only if building from source)
MIT