Paste, the Mac clipboard manager, just added MCP support. Your clipboard history can now talk to Claude, Codex, Cursor, or any other AI tool that speaks the protocol, through a local MCP server running on your Mac.

Think about what passes through your clipboard in a week. Links, screenshots, snippets from PDFs, that paragraph you copied out of an email and promptly forgot about. A clipboard manager already remembers all of it.

Connecting that memory to a robot assistant makes it useful in a new way. Ask for everything you copied about a project this week, and the robot pulls it together into a draft or a summary without you digging through the history yourself.

This is the part of the MCP story that keeps me interested. Ordinary utilities quietly become context sources, and the robot gets smarter without you typing a single extra word into a chat box.

A word about the privacy side, because clipboards are sensitive territory. Mine has held passwords, account numbers, and plenty of things I’d never paste into a chat window on purpose. Paste puts this behind a switch. You choose which tools get access, and you can revoke it at any time. I’m glad it’s a switch and not a default, and I’d think carefully before flipping it on a machine where your clipboard sees confidential work.

Setup is simple. Open Paste’s MCP settings, turn on Enable MCP, pick your AI tool, and follow the guide.

I keep telling anyone who will listen that a robot assistant is only as good as the context you feed it. An MCP-enabled clipboard can really help.