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Hotshot — AI skill for Claude Code

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Take a screenshot and it lands in your terminal.

How to install Hotshot

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

What Hotshot does

Take a screenshot and it lands in your terminal. Built for Claude Code, Copilot CLI, and other AI coding assistants. Removes the need to drag and drop - real productivity booster

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README

hotshot

Take a screenshot, and it lands in your terminal. That's it.

**hotshot** is a tiny app that watches for new screenshots and automatically injects them into whichever terminal session you were last using. Built for AI coding assistants like [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code), GitHub Copilot CLI, aider, and OpenCode that accept image paths as input.

If you're like me, you use screenshots constantly to debug your work — a broken UI, a weird error message, a dashboard that doesn't look right. Normally you'd screenshot it, find the file, copy the path, switch to your terminal, paste it in. **hotshot** skips all of that — just take a screenshot the way you always do and it lands in your terminal.

Platforms

Platform	Form	Trigger	Install	Docs
macOS	Menu bar app (Swift, zero deps)	Native ⌘⇧3/4/5 + ⌃⌘⇧3/4 shortcuts (file/clipboard watcher)	below	this page
Linux	Shell script (X11 & Wayland)	Hotkey you bind in your DE (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+Print)	`linux/install.sh`	linux/README.md
Windows	PowerShell script (+ optional AutoHotkey v2)	Global hotkey (default Ctrl+Alt+H) → Snipping overlay	`windows\install.ps1`	windows/README.md

All platforms honor the same contract:

	macOS	Linux	Windows
PNG saved to a known folder	✅	✅	✅
Clipboard: image	✅	✅	✅
Clipboard: plain-text path	✅	with CopyQ (single-owner clipboard otherwise)	✅
Clipboard: file URL / drop list	✅ file URL	with CopyQ	✅ file drop list
CLI detection (focused terminal's processes)	`ps -t`	`/proc` descendants	Win32_Process tree
Claude Code → typed `[path]`	✅	✅	✅
Copilot CLI / aider / OpenCode → bare escaped path	✅ backslash-escaped	✅ backslash-escaped	double-quoted if it contains spaces or shell metacharacters; refused if it contains `"`, `$` or `
Unknown CLI → bracketed