Show GN: winclipshot: a tool that lets you paste screenshots with Ctrl+V in Windows Terminal

Originally used personally when working with Claude Code on Windows, this was cleaned up and released as open source after requests from people nearby.

The core problem is that Windows Terminal can't handle image data from the clipboard as-is, so you can't paste screenshots with Ctrl+V.

winclipshot subscribes to clipboard change events, and when a new image comes in, it checks the currently focused window.

• If it's a terminal (Windows Terminal, cmd, PowerShell, Alacritty, WezTerm, etc.), it saves the image as a PNG file and replaces the clipboard content with that file path.
• If it's a regular app like Slack, Chrome, Word, it leaves the image as-is so you can paste normally.

Since it works on an event-driven basis, CPU usage is nearly zero, and memory usage is described as around 15MB.

It also offers the following usability features:

• Global hotkeys like Win+Shift+S are left untouched
• Turning off the program immediately restores the original clipboard behavior
• Also supports the flow of capturing in Chrome and then moving to a terminal to paste
• Images that come in from non-terminal sources are held in a 60-second pending state, and converted when the user shifts focus to a terminal
• Provides options such as -bench, -out, -terminals, -pending, -v

Claude Code supports pasting screenshots via Ctrl+V or Alt+V, but this can occasionally fail, and other CLIs or TUIs may not have the same functionality at all. This tool is a practical workaround aimed at making the "screenshot → Ctrl+V" flow work even in such environments.