Tool: Cleanup Claude Code Paste

I built a super-niche tool that solves a very specific problem I run into when working with the Claude Code terminal app. When I copy prompts out of the terminal, they often come with weird additional whitespace that makes them messy to reuse or share. This tool cleans that up automatically.

The tool is straightforward - it strips out the extra whitespace that gets included when copying text from the Claude Code interface. I find myself needing this often enough that it was worth creating a dedicated solution rather than manually cleaning up each paste.

This is the kind of utility that probably only helps a handful of people who work with Claude Code in the same way I do, but that's exactly the kind of tool I like to build - solving my own problems, even if the audience is small.

Posted 6th April 2026 at 2:55 am

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This is a beat by Simon Willison, posted on 6th April 2026.

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