Add clipboard automations#1422
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Run custom shell scripts when copied text matches a regular expression, replacing the clipboard with the (optionally rich-text HTML) result while keeping the original copy in history. Scripts run via NSUserUnixTask from ~/Library/Application Scripts/<bundle-id>/, which executes them outside the app sandbox with the user's normal privileges (network, filesystem, Homebrew tools) while Maccy itself stays sandboxed. No entitlement changes required. - Automation model (name, regexp, extensible action enum) persisted via Defaults - AutomationProcessor: matches, chains scripts, publishes a single new entry - ScriptRunner: NSUserUnixTask wrapper with stdin/stdout piping and timeout - New Automations settings pane with live scripts-directory watching - Tests for matching, chaining, output handling, and skip rules Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| "Untitled" = "Untitled automation"; | ||
| "SelectOrAddHint" = "Select an automation to edit, or add one with +."; | ||
| "Name" = "Name"; | ||
| "NamePrompt" = "GitHub PR → rich link"; |
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Use a more generic example/placeholder name here
| TextField(text: automation.regexp, prompt: Text("RegexpPrompt", tableName: "AutomationsSettings")) { | ||
| Text("Regexp", tableName: "AutomationsSettings") | ||
| } | ||
| .font(.body.monospaced()) |
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| do { | ||
| let output = try await scriptRunner.run(scriptName: config.scriptName, input: current) | ||
| let cleaned = trimTrailingNewlines(output) |
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This creates a problem if users want to intentionally trailing newlines in their script output.
Probably we should just strip a single trailing newline, which allows people to use echo and variants as they normally would.
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Add an automations pane where users can configure scripts to run on matching clipboard regexps.
NSUserUnixTaskfrom~/Library/Application Scripts/<bundle-id>/, which executes them outside the app sandbox with the user's normal privileges (network, filesystem, Homebrew tools)Screenshot/example
In the following example, I've written a script to convert plain text GitHub PR URLs to a HTML link with the PR name as the title: