I’ve been using Claude Code daily for months. Last week I found /copy. I immediately felt stupid.
It’s not a hidden command. It’s in the docs. But I never bothered to look, because I had workarounds that sort of worked and I’d stopped noticing how bad they were.
The command
/copy copies the last assistant response straight to your clipboard. Pass a number and you get the Nth response back — /copy 2 grabs the one before the most recent, and so on. If the response contains code blocks, a picker lets you grab a single block instead of the whole thing. Over SSH, hit w in the picker and it writes to a file instead of touching the remote clipboard.
That’s it. That’s the feature. Nothing clever.
What’s clever is the months I spent not finding it.
The two workarounds I’d normalized
Before /copy, I had two options and both were bad.
Manual selection. Scroll up, drag across the terminal, paste into my editor, fix the mangled indentation. Terminals are infamously bad at preserving whitespace when you select across wrapped lines. Fine for three-line snippets. Painful for anything longer than a screen.
Ask Claude to regenerate. Prompt it to save the answer to a markdown file. Clean output. Preserved formatting. No manual fixing. Also: an entire extra generation pass. More tokens. More seconds. I did this constantly. I didn’t register it as friction anymore — it was just how I worked.
Both workarounds functioned. Neither was necessary.
The friction you stop seeing
The cost of any single instance was nothing. Nobody’s going broke regenerating a bash script. But I was doing it over and over, day after day, for months. The accumulated flow breaks stop feeling like flow breaks and start feeling like the job.
One slash command would have fixed it at any point. I just never asked whether it existed.
I keep finding more of these. Features that have been in the tools I use every day, that would save me real time, that I’ve simply never looked for. The workaround works. I’m busy. I’d rather ship than read changelogs.
The workflow you’ve accepted as “just how things are” is the first place worth actually looking.