Send to Ghostty

What it does

Send a command from a guide, chat, or document to Ghostty without copying and switching apps manually. Activates Ghostty, opens a window if needed, and sends the selection to the focused terminal pane in its selected tab. Suggests the action for command-like text. Trailing newlines are removed, but internal line breaks and control characters remain: multiline input may execute commands depending on the shell or running program. Text may append to anything already at the prompt. Use an empty, idle prompt and review the selection first. Blank-line-only input currently produces an error.

How to use it

1. Requires the next ActionClip app update. Not available in the current public 2.3.2 release.
2. Choose Download action and open the downloaded .actionclip file.
3. Review the action and choose Add Action.
4. Select the text you want to use and choose Send to Ghostty.

Requirements

Ghostty with AppleScript support, a compatible ActionClip version with reviewed Community actions, and macOS Automation permission for ActionClip to control Ghostty. Start with an empty, idle terminal prompt.

Privacy

The full selected text is sent locally to the active Ghostty terminal pane through AppleScript. This action makes no network request itself. A shell, remote session, or other program running in that pane may process, execute, record, or transmit the text.

Example

Input

echo ACTIONCLIP_GHOSTTY_TEST

Output

Ghostty receives echo ACTIONCLIP_GHOSTTY_TEST in its focused terminal pane. At an empty shell prompt, review the text before pressing Return.

-- 1. Grab the highlighted text using ActionClip's native token
set theCommand to "{{selected_text}}"

-- 2. Strip any trailing newlines so the command DOES NOT auto-execute!
repeat while theCommand ends with return or theCommand ends with linefeed
	set theCommand to text 1 thru -2 of theCommand
end repeat

-- 3. Target Ghostty
tell application "Ghostty"
	activate
	
	-- Check if a Ghostty window already exists; if not, spin up a new one
	if not (exists front window) then
		set win to new window
	else
		set win to front window
	end if
	
	-- Target the currently active terminal pane
	set currentTerm to focused terminal of selected tab of win
	
	-- Native Ghostty command to paste text securely
	input text theCommand to currentTerm
end tell

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