AI native clipboard for macOS

Your prompts, context, and model outputs. Organized and ready the second you need them.

AiPaste keeps your AI workflow artifacts within reach: prompts, code fixes, research fragments, terminal commands, and the one perfect answer you do not want to lose. Built in SwiftUI, local-first by default, and fast enough to disappear into your workflow until the moment you need it.

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Built for ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and terminal-heavy work
Prompt history, groups, pinning, paste-back, and CLI control
Native SwiftUI app with Homebrew install and local-first storage

ChatGPT Claude Cursor Terminal Docs

AiPaste workflow

AI Prompt Workspace

Current prompt

Refine this answer for users, not engineers. Keep the tone clear, calm, and actionable. Return the shortest safe version first.

Paste back

Keep the right answer close.

Reuse prompts and outputs without breaking your flow.

Clipboard Useful links Prompt snippets Code snippets

Claude Just now

Rewrite this API error into a user-facing explanation.

Keep the useful prompt you finally got right.

Cursor 2 min ago

Use this file as context and propose the safest patch.

Reuse the exact context that produced the good review.

Terminal 8 min ago

./bin/aipaste items paste 1

Paste the right answer back into the active app fast.

Prompt-ready

Keep your best prompts, reusable instructions, and context snippets one search away.

Context retrieval

Find commands, patches, model outputs, and fragments by memory instead of exact wording.

Cross-tool loop

Move cleanly between AI chat, IDE, docs, and terminal without losing state.

AI native workflow

When your work is half prompt engineering and half execution, clipboard history becomes infrastructure.

AiPaste is designed for developers, founders, operators, and researchers who bounce between model chats, code editors, docs, and terminals all day and need their working context to stay intact.

Use Cases

Made for people working with AI all day, not occasionally.

PROMPTS

Keep the exact prompt that finally worked

Store refined instructions, chain-of-thought wrappers, critique formats, and repeatable prompt patterns.

CONTEXT

Reuse code and document context across tools

Move snippets from GitHub, terminal logs, issue threads, and source files into the next AI interaction fast.

OUTPUTS

Save the answer before the next tab buries it

Keep useful model responses, rewritten copy, SQL fixes, shell commands, and release notes drafts in reach.

CAPTURE

Capture AI prompts, answers, and commands without breaking flow.

AiPaste monitors the pasteboard continuously and keeps the working fragments of your AI sessions in a clean, scan-friendly layout instead of burying them in a dense list.

Prompt Summarize the error log, identify root cause, then propose the safest minimal fix.

Context Auth middleware, token refresh path, failing stack trace

Patch Guard nil session before attempting refresh

Output User-facing summary for incident update

RETRIEVE

Find the right prompt or answer before your train of thought breaks.

Search across recent clips, jump through groups, and use app context to get back to the exact prompt, code block, or model output you copied earlier.

Search prompts, outputs, apps, commands...

Claude Rewrite this changelog for users, not engineers

Cursor Use this file as context and explain only the regression risk

Terminal ./bin/aipaste list --search release --limit 10

ORGANIZE

Build a reusable library of prompts, snippets, and context blocks.

Pin recurring prompts, move clips into named groups, recolor workspaces, and exclude noisy or sensitive apps so your history stays useful instead of overwhelming.

claude

cursor

research

review prompts 7 items

code context blocks 12 items

research fragments 5 items

OPERATE

Use the app when you want UI. Use the CLI when your AI workflow is already scripted.

Show or hide the panel, paste a selected clip, manage groups, and change configuration from terminal commands that match the same workflow you use across AI tools and dev environments.

AI LOOP

Move cleanly between prompt, output, code, and docs

AiPaste keeps the small pieces of context that make AI work actually usable across many tabs and tools.

PASTE BACK

Return text to the previously active app

When Accessibility is enabled, AiPaste can paste directly back into the app you were just using.

PRIVATE BY DEFAULT

Keep sensitive AI context local

Your prompts, snippets, and copied outputs stay in a native local-first app instead of another web layer.

Install

Choose the path that matches your workflow.

HOMEBREW

Best for everyday use

brew tap AiPaste/aipaste
brew install --cask aipaste
brew upgrade --cask aipaste

RELEASE ZIP

Best for direct downloads

Open GitHub Releases
Download the latest zip
Move AiPaste.app to /Applications

CLI

Best for scriptable AI workflows

./bin/aipaste help
./bin/aipaste list --limit 10
./bin/aipaste items paste 1

FAQ

Built for AI-heavy native Mac workflows.

Is this an AI app?

It is AI native, not an LLM wrapper. AiPaste helps you manage the prompts, context, and outputs around AI work.

Does it store data locally?

Yes. AiPaste is designed as a local-first clipboard tool for macOS.

Can I automate it?

Yes. The bundled CLI covers panel actions, item actions, groups, ignore rules, and configuration.

Can it paste back into another app?

Yes, with macOS Accessibility permission enabled for paste-to-app actions.

How do I preview this site locally?

Run ./scripts/serve_website.sh and open the local address it prints.

AiPaste

Stop rebuilding the same prompt and context from scratch.

A native clipboard manager for people doing serious AI work on macOS and tired of losing the useful parts.

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