Terminal-native clipboard vault for developers
Install the official CLI, keep your workflow local-first, and retrieve clipboard context by type instead of by order. Clip Gate auto-classifies everything you copy into developer-meaningful types, then lets you retrieve it by type, not by order.
Free to use. No account required. Official installs via the site, PyPI, and Homebrew.
You already know at least one of these feelings. Clip Gate fixes all three.
Clip Gate detects secrets the instant you copy them. Memory-only, auto-expiring, never on disk, never in search history.
Clip Gate classifies every clip — error, path, URL, JSON, command. Ask for the last error. Get the last error.
Clip Gate packs multiple clips into one LLM prompt. Built for the AI-assisted workflow you already use all day.
Every clipboard item flows through a 5-stage pipeline in under 5ms.
< 5ms end-to-end · runs entirely on your machine
Every copy is auto-sorted into a type bucket — locally, in under 5ms. Later, you retrieve by what it is, not by what order you copied it.
No dashboard. No settings to tune. If you can use cd and ls, you already know how cg works. Here's the 60-second tour.
Save anything to your vault. Pipe command output, paste text, or pass a file. It gets classified and indexed automatically.
See what you've got. Every item with its type, age, and preview. Filter by type to cut through noise.
Get the right thing back. Last error, last URL, last SHA — ask by type, not by memory. Pipe it straight to your AI.
Dig up anything. Full-text across everything you've ever copied. Scoped, ranked, local — no cloud round-trip.
Bundle for your AI. Group recent errors, paths, and commands into one structured block. Pipe to any CLI model — no MCP required.
Built-in MCP server exposes your clipboard vault to any MCP client. Or pipe cg pack output to any CLI AI. No accounts. No API keys. Local-first.
Native MCP. Reads your typed history without a single copy-paste.
MCPMCP-aware coding. Errors and snippets surface inside the editor.
MCPPipe cg pack straight into the CLI or paste into chat.
Hand bundled context to Copilot Chat via paste or terminal.
CLIMCP server discoverable as a tool source for any model.
MCPPipe vault entries as context blocks into Cascade.
CLICapture errors, code snippets, and JSON from any web page. Pipe them straight to your terminal. Zero context switching, zero re-typing.
One click captures the right thing — the error message, the code block, the JSON payload — already classified by type.
Keys and tokens copied from a page never touch disk. Memory-only vault, auto-expires in 5 minutes.
Browser captures appear instantly in cg list. Use cg paste --type error from any shell — same DB.
Everything runs on your machine. Encrypted local vault. No cloud. No telemetry. No accounts.
Minimal output by default. One-line confirmation on stderr. Add --quiet for true silence.
API keys auto-detected. Memory-only vault. 5-minute TTL. Zero bytes on disk, ever.
Built for AI workflows from day one. Context packing, MCP server, structured output formats.
curl -fsSL https://clipgate.github.io/install.sh | shmacOS (ARM + Intel) and Linux (x86_64 + ARM64). Auto-detects your platform.
pip install clipgateNo Rust needed. Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Follow the package instructions on the docs page.
open https://clipgate.github.io/releases/Grab a prebuilt binary from the release notes page for your platform.
brew install clipgate/tap/cgmacOS and Linux via the official Homebrew tap. Release binaries remain hosted on the site.
open https://clipgate.github.io/support/Need help? Read the docs, check release notes, or contact support from the official site.
Then try your first commands:
Most clipboard tools remember what you copied. Only ClipGate also knows what kind of thing it is — and makes it pipeable to your terminal and AI stack.
| Feature | ClipGate | Maccy | Raycast | Paste | Alfred | Flycut |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Typed retrieval | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | — | — | ✗ |
| Secret detection | ✓ | ✗ | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Local-first | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Terminal-native (CLI) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| MCP / AI-stack integration | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free tier | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | — | ✓ |
✓ yes
— partial / limited
✗ no
* Secret detection = automatic recognition of API keys, tokens, and passwords on copy. Manual privacy toggles don't count.
Start with the free binary. Advanced capabilities can arrive later on top of the same official distribution flow.
Core clipboard capture, classification, search, packing, and local storage. Download from the official site and use it on your own machine.
Advanced workflow automation, larger sync-aware surfaces, and deeper integrations planned on top of the same base binary.
Read setup, command references, and architecture notes on the public site. No source-code digging required.
Use the support page for install help, release questions, and product feedback.
Typed retrieval turns your shell history into a durable, searchable record you can pipe to any tool.
Why pasting into Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot without a secret-aware vault is the new shadow-IT risk.
Install the free binary and turn your clipboard into a developer tool.