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Winclipshot — Development skill for Claude Code

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Windows clipboard-to-path helper for terminal CLIs like Claude Code.

How to install Winclipshot

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open Higangssh/winclipshot and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Winclipshot does

Windows clipboard-to-path helper for terminal CLIs like Claude Code. Screenshot with Win+Shift+S, paste the saved path with Ctrl+V

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README

winclipshot

Make `Win+Shift+S` paste as a file path in terminals — so Claude Code, SSH sessions, and other CLIs can read your screenshots.

On macOS, terminals like iTerm2 and tools like Claude Code handle clipboard images natively. On native Windows they can't: the terminal's stdin only accepts text. `winclipshot` bridges the gap — it quietly watches the clipboard, and when a screenshot is about to be pasted into a terminal it swaps the image for the file path of a saved PNG.

Demo

winclipshot demo

How it works

`winclipshot` doesn't change `Win+Shift+S` or any keybinding. It subscribes to Windows' clipboard-change events (`AddClipboardFormatListener`) and reacts only when a new **image** appears. When it does, one of three things happens:

Focused window is a terminal → the image is saved to a PNG file and the clipboard is replaced with the file's path. Ctrl+V pastes the path.
Focused window is something else, but you focus a terminal within 60 s → same conversion happens at that moment. Typical case: you screenshot a webpage in Chrome, switch to the terminal, paste.
Focused window is something else, you never visit a terminal → the image is left on the clipboard untouched. Pasting into Slack/Word/Chrome behaves normally.

The pending window (60 s by default, `-pending` flag) only polls while an undecided image is on the clipboard; the moment the clipboard changes or a terminal is focused the polling ends. Text copy/paste is never touched.

When `winclipshot.exe` is not running, nothing is different — `Win+Shift+S` and the clipboard work exactly like stock Windows.

       ┌──────────────────────────┐
       │  User: Win + Shift + S   │
       │  selects a region        │
       └────────────┬─────────────┘
                    │
                    ▼
       ┌──────────────────────────┐
       │ Windows puts the image   │
       │ on the clipb