Paste MCP

Paste MCP connects your clipboard history to AI tools like Claude, Codex, Cursor, and other tools that support MCP.

With Paste MCP, your AI tool can search Paste, find specific copied items, and use saved context while you keep working in the tool you are already using.

What is MCP?

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. It is an open standard that lets AI tools connect to apps and context in a structured way.

Paste uses MCP to make your clipboard history available to the AI tools you approve. Instead of copying the same notes, links, files, and references into every prompt, you can ask your AI tool to look in Paste and continue from there.

What Paste MCP can help with

Paste MCP is useful when the context you need already exists in your clipboard history.

You can ask your AI tool to:

1. Find something you copied earlier.

2. Use saved notes, links, files, or screenshots as context.

3. Summarize items you collected during research.

4. Draft an update from notes copied throughout the day.

5. Help organize related items in Paste, when supported by the connected tool.

For example:

• Find the notes I copied today in Paste. Draft a team update for the launch using them.

• Find all research items I copied in Paste this week. Make a brief overview and suggest a structure for my presentation.

• Check Paste for what I copied today. Give me a brief recap of my work.

How to start

To use Paste MCP, make sure you have the latest version of Paste installed on your Mac.

Then:

1. Open MCP settings in Paste.

2. Enable MCP.

3. Choose the AI tool you want to connect.

4. Follow the setup guide for that tool.

Things to know

Paste MCP runs locally on your Mac. AI tools can connect to Paste only after you approve access.

Your clipboard history stays under your control. You decide which tools can connect and can remove access at any time.

AI model requests may still depend on the AI tool or provider you use, so it is worth reviewing the privacy settings of each connected tool as well.granu