Use when the user wants to paste markdown into Mail, Google Docs, Slack, or Word as real formatting (not raw ** or #). Triggers on "mdcopy", "markdown to clipboard", "rich text from markdown", "paste markdown into email", "copy this for Mail", "GFM to clipboard", or macOS clipboard HTML from markdown.

mdcopy (markdown → rich clipboard)

Name: mdcopy
Author: The-Focus-AI

This plugin ships a small macOS-only script that runs Pandoc (GFM → HTML), applies light CSS, and puts HTML on the system pasteboard so Paste preserves headings, lists, tables, links, and inline code.

Requirements

macOS (Swift + AppKit).
pandoc on PATH: brew install pandoc.

Script path

After install, the executable lives at:

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/mdcopy

Run it with bash if the executable bit was lost in transit, or chmod +x once:

chmod +x "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/mdcopy"

Usage (three inputs)

Mode	Command
File	`"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/mdcopy" path/to/file.md`
Stdin	`printf '%s' "$body" \| "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/mdcopy"`
Clipboard is markdown (TTY, no pipe)	`"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/mdcopy"`

Stderr prints a success line when the pasteboard was updated. Tell the user to Paste in the target app.

Machine-readable spec

For stable, copy-paste instructions (skills, automation, or fetching over HTTPS), use the repo root LLM.txt:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/The-Focus-AI/mdcopy/main/LLM.txt

Limitations

Not for Linux or Windows.
The destination field must accept HTML from the clipboard; plain-text-only boxes stay plain.

Examples in this repo

README.md — “Mail.app paste examples” (small markdown samples + screenshots).
examples/rich-text-demo.md — tables, nested lists, blockquotes, code.