GoKawiilClipboard manager Paste got even more useful today, with the release of Paste MCP: a tool that connects your clipboard history to several AI tools, from Claude and Codex, to Cursor and beyond. Here are the details.
A bit of context
In late 2024, Anthropic proposed the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standard for connecting AI assistants and traditional platforms.
Soon after the announcement, and even more so after Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation, the protocol was adopted by countless companies and platforms, including Zapier, Notion, Google, Figma, OpenAI, Salesforce, and many others.
Today, Paste launched Paste MCP, which lets users connect Paste to their favorite AI tools through a built-in local MCP on their Macs.
Paste, for the uninitiated, is one of the most complete and widely used third-party clipboard managers for Mac. It currently offers iOS and iPadOS apps as well, in addition to collaborative tools, Shortcuts support, and features developed specifically for developers, designers, marketing professionals, and more.
You can learn more about Paste here.
Back to Paste MCP
With the new support for MCP in Paste, users can now securely hand off the contents of their clipboard to their favorite AI tools, which opens up a wide range of productivity possibilities.
From performing contextual searches on content you added to your clipboard in the past to purposely copying documents, notes, screenshots, text, images, and other data to quickly hand off to an AI assistant, Paste MCP can really speed up several workflows.
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