The useful things your agents find should outlive the session that found them.
Right now, they usually do not. A deep research chat ends with a strong synthesis, but a week later it is buried in a conversation list. A carefully written CLAUDE.md lives in one repository. A prompt that worked brilliantly is pasted into a note whose name you cannot remember.
The tools change. The sessions close. The useful text stays trapped inside the place where it happened.
#This is not memory
Memory asks an agent to decide what it should remember about you. A clipboard is simpler: you decide what is worth keeping, and the agent copies it exactly.
That distinction matters. Research, prompts, project instructions, skills, checklists, and entire conversations are not facts about you. They are artifacts. You want the original text back, not an impression of it.
#The interface is the agent you already use
A human can open the web app, but that is not the primary workflow. You should be able to say “copy this research to Clipboard” in Claude, then “get my ontology research” from Codex the next morning.
Clipboard exposes six small operations: dump, get, search, list, update, and delete. They map to verbs agents already understand. There is no special file format to learn and no new agent to talk to.
you copy this research to Clipboard
agent clipboard.dump({
title: "Operational ontology research",
description: "Deep research on objects, links, actions…",
content: research
})
✓ copied · available in every agent
#The description does the finding
When an agent saves something, it writes a short description of what the text contains, why it matters, and the distinctive terms another agent might search for later.
Search operates on that compact retrieval layer. Only after an agent chooses the right item does it request the full text. This keeps search fast, predictable, and inexpensive while leaving the source untouched.
#Useful context should be portable
AI tools are temporary. A persistent clipboard sits between them. It gives the work you choose to keep a stable address without asking you to reorganize your life around another note-taking system.
Copy once. Paste into any agent.