image paste in ssh/sftop

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1. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/2500
2. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/1361
3. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/1989

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any updates on this? please provide a way to support this

I would love this...

I NEED THIS!

One silly work around if you use VS Code on a remote server is to paste the image into a markdown file in your home directory. That will add the image there too on the remote server and then you can command click to get the image displayed in VSCode and then get the path and paste that into claude.

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I really would love to have this feature

Bump!

I built an open-source tool to solve this: cc-clip

It creates a transparent bridge between your local Mac clipboard and the remote server via SSH tunnel. An xclip shim intercepts only Claude Code's clipboard calls and fetches image data from a local daemon — no changes to Claude Code needed.

Local Mac clipboard → pngpaste → HTTP daemon → SSH RemoteForward → xclip shim → Claude Code

Setup is two commands:

cc-clip serve          # local: start clipboard daemon
cc-clip connect host   # deploy shim + tunnel to remote

After that, Ctrl+V in remote Claude Code pastes images from your Mac as if it were local.

I built a tool that solves this: cc-clip

It creates a transparent bridge between your local Mac clipboard and the remote server using an HTTP daemon + SSH RemoteForward + an xclip shim. No changes to Claude Code needed.

cc-clip setup myserver

One command handles everything (deps, SSH config, daemon, remote deploy). After that, Ctrl+V in remote Claude Code pastes images from your local Mac.

Works on macOS → Linux (amd64/arm64). MIT licensed — feedback and bug reports welcome.

Still seeing this issue happening over a ssh'd terminal.
i ssh from my local windows to remote linux machine.

@ShunmeiCho this is an amazing tool, thanks for creating it!

clipaste now supports SSH remote paste (v2.1.0).

It runs an HTTP server locally that serves your latest screenshot. One-time setup:

# Install locally
brew install hqhq1025/clipaste/clipaste
brew services start clipaste

# Configure remote server
clipaste ssh-setup user@your-server

This installs an xclip shim on the remote server and configures SSH RemoteForward. After setup, Ctrl+V in remote Claude Code fetches the screenshot through the SSH tunnel.

No extra tools needed on the server (just curl). Works with any Linux server.

You can try Cmux terminal (based on Ghostty) - it has this feature by default. But before, I used just a script which uploads the image from clipboard to remote server and copies the path of the image to clipboard, so I just paste it to claude code - i.e. Screenshot -> shortcut (cmd+shift+i) -> uploaded to the server -> path copied to clipboard (@~/uploads/clip-20260429-072938.png) -> paste to claude code. I use Raycast to execute the script

Try this util - https://github.com/samuellawrentz/clipssh

I really would love to have this feature

I have this same issue:

Clipboard Paste Issue (Claude Code over SSH)

Setup

• Local machine: connecting via Prompt (Panic) over Tailscale SSH, also reproduced via iTerm2
• Remote (DevMac): Claude Code running directly (no tmux)

Symptom

Ctrl+V stopped working for both text and images in Claude Code. Error: "No image found on the clipboard." Started failing around 2026-06-17.

Cmd+V works for text (Prompt handles it locally and injects as raw input).

What we know

• tmux config has allow-passthrough on — tmux is not obviously the culprit
• Claude Code fully intercepts Ctrl+V and runs its image-paste routine, which tries to read the clipboard on the remote machine (DevMac), not from the SSH client
• Cmd+V bypasses Claude Code's interception entirely — Prompt injects it as raw stdin
• Prompt has an "Allow clipboard writing" setting (was off, turned on) — this is the wrong direction; it lets the remote write to the local clipboard, not vice versa
• Likely a Claude Code regression — Ctrl+V used to pass through to the terminal

Confirmed (2026-06-17)

Tested without tmux — same failure. Tested with iTerm2 instead of Prompt — same failure. Neither tmux nor the SSH client is the culprit. This is a Claude Code regression: Ctrl+V is intercepted by Claude Code and attempts to read the clipboard on the remote machine (which has none over SSH). Previously Ctrl+V passed through to the terminal.

Workarounds

• Use Cmd+V for text (works — Prompt injects as raw stdin)
• Images: no working workaround yet — Cmd+V does not forward image data as raw input