clipboard

name	clipboard
description	Copy text to the Windows clipboard from WSL. Handles Unicode correctly. Use when user says "copy to clipboard", "clip this", or "copy that".
allowed-tools	["Bash"]

Copy to Clipboard (WSL/Windows)

Copy the provided text to the Windows clipboard with correct Unicode encoding.

Instructions

1. Write the text to a temp file as UTF-8
2. Convert to UTF-16LE with BOM and pipe to clip.exe
3. Clean up the temp file

Use this pattern:

tmpfile=$(mktemp) && cat <<'CLIP_EOF' > "$tmpfile"
<TEXT TO COPY>
CLIP_EOF
iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-16le "$tmpfile" | clip.exe && rm -f "$tmpfile"

Important:

• Always use iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-16le before piping to clip.exe — without this, Unicode characters (em dashes, curly quotes, etc.) get garbled
• Use a heredoc with 'CLIP_EOF' (quoted) to prevent shell expansion
• Confirm to the user when done