clippy CLAUDE.md

clippy CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from neilberkman/clippy. It costs 2,208 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for contributors to Clippy, a macOS clipboard tool with separate commands for copying and pasting. They describe project context, contribution rules, and recent features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when modifying Clippy, reviewing its features, or working on issues and release-related automation.
Why use it?
They prevent changes that violate the project’s attribution rules or release process and provide context for working safely in the codebase.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/neilberkman/clippy/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neilberkman/clippy

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Per session 2,208 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,208 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.02208 $0.02208
Opus 5 $0.01104 $0.01104
Sonnet 5 $0.00442 $0.00442
Haiku 4.5 $0.00221 $0.00221

Measured 5d ago against content hash b414ec003a80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clippy CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude AI Context File

This file contains context and memory for Claude AI when working on the clippy project.

CRITICAL: Never Credit Yourself

NEVER add Claude credits to commits, code, or any project files. This includes:

  • No "Generated with Claude Code" messages
  • No "Co-Authored-By: Claude" in commits
  • No mentions of AI assistance in code or documentation
  • Keep all contributions attribution-free

CRITICAL: Never Do Manual Release Steps

NEVER manually publish releases, edit releases, or do one-off fixes. The goal is ALWAYS a repeatable automated process. This includes:

  • No gh release edit commands to fix drafts
  • No manual edits to published releases
  • No manual updates to Homebrew taps
  • No workarounds - FIX THE AUTOMATION
  • The goal is THE PROCESS, not getting a single release out

Project Overview

Clippy is a macOS clipboard tool that bridges the gap between terminal file operations and GUI applications. It includes:

  • clippy: Smart clipboard copying tool
  • pasty: Intelligent clipboard pasting tool

Recent Major Features

Recent Downloads Functionality (v0.8.0+)

  • Added --recent flag to clippy command (removed from pasty for better separation of concerns)
  • Interactive picker using Bubble Tea library (replaced promptui for better multi-select support)
  • Simplified -r behavior:
    • -r alone copies the most recent download (no picker)
    • -r 3 copies the 3 most recent downloads
    • -r 5m copies all downloads from last 5 minutes
    • -ri shows interactive picker (can combine with numbers/durations)
  • Multi-select support in picker: Space to toggle, Enter to copy, p to copy & paste
  • Removed --batch flag (behavior integrated into numbered copies)
  • Time-based filtering (e.g., -r 5m, -r 1h)
  • macOS Downloads folder detection with smart archive handling
  • Separate --debug and --verbose flags for better UX
  • Config option absolute_time = true for absolute timestamps in picker

Key Implementation Details

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 216 lines · 2,208 tokens per session scan A b414ec003a80

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clippy CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository neilberkman/clippy (245 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 2,208 tokens to every session, about $0.0110 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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