Clipport

Clipport is an open-source developer tool for macOS that lets you paste local text and images directly into remote iTerm2 sessions over SSH. Aimed at engineers who work across local and remote terminals, it detects the active iTerm session and handles clipboard content based on its type. Concrete features include automatic detection of text versus images, native pasting of local text while remote text is inserted via the clipboard, and automatic upload of images to a remote /tmp/clipport/ directory with generated paths. It matches sessions through OpenSSH hooks or manual registration, ships a menu bar app that supervises the daemon and shows status, and supports shims so remote programs calling wl-paste or xclip work as expected. Built-in health checks and troubleshooting commands round it out. Written mostly in Go, Clipport requires macOS, iTerm2, Homebrew, passwordless SSH, and a writable /tmp on the remote host. After installing via Homebrew you run clipctl onboard to set up SSH routes, then clipctl start to launch the daemon, after which a single keyboard shortcut handles all paste operations. Clipport is released under the MIT License with no pricing model.

Developers use Clipport to paste local text and images into remote iTerm2 SSH sessions with one keyboard shortcut.