AI/Coding/Idea/26/03/Screenshot buffer for agent CLIs
Screenshot buffer for agent CLIs (wish) — friction with CursorAI/CLI vs Claude/Code
- Personal friction: getting screenshots into cursor-agent is much harder than in Claude/Code, and it’s frustrating in daily use
- In Claude/Code, Ctrl+V in the interface pastes the image and the session can see it — low ceremony
- In Cursor Agent / CursorAI/CLI, the practical path observed so far is
@ plus an absolute filesystem path to the image; the agent does not get the screenshot from a simple paste the same way - Using a path that contains
~ (home shorthand) breaks the flow — expansion or resolution does not behave like a normal shell path in that context, so you end up needing a fully expanded absolute path - Cross-tool wish: something like Vim-style buffers but for recent screenshots — a small clipboard-of-files or named slots (e.g.
@screenshot:0) that Codex, Copilot CLI, Cursor CLI, and similar agents could all address without the user hand-copying /Users/... every time - Broader product angle: standardize “last capture” or workspace temp attachment semantics across coding agents so multimodal input isn’t tied to one vendor’s paste implementation