Secrets, caught at ⌘V

The paste that
never happened.

You paste into Claude all day. The day the clipboard holds a live AWS key, PasteSentry stops ⌘V mid-keystroke and hands Claude a file path instead.

Download for Mac · free · macOS 13+
Universal DMG, 1.7 MB. Guards Claude Desktop, Claude Code and claude.ai out of the box.
The secret is vaulted. The path is pasted. The transcript gets nothing.

You copy.
It knows.

Every copy is classified on your Mac in under a millisecond. A match arms the shield in your menu bar, silently.

AWSGitHubStripe AnthropicOpenAISlack Googleprivate keysDB passwords .env filesJWTshigh entropy

Enter.
That's it.

One keypress saves the secret to ~/.secrets/, locked to your user, and pastes the path where the key would have been. Claude Code can still use it. Nobody else ever sees it.

Wasaws_secret_access_key = wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
Pasted~/.secrets/2026-08-11-aws-secret-key-x7fq.txt

Your Mac.
Nowhere else.

No telemetry

Detection, the vault, the log: all local.

One network call

Its own update check. That's the whole list.

Everywhere else, nothing

⌘V outside guarded apps is untouched, with zero added latency.

Signed and notarized

Notarized by Apple. Auto-updates itself.

The honest small print

Keyboard ⌘V only. Drag-and-drop and pbpaste aren't guarded in v1. A last line of defense, not a guarantee: unknown secret formats can slip past. The vault is plaintext chmod 600, the same trust level as ~/.aws/credentials; FileVault is your at-rest encryption. And an agent can still read the vaulted file if you let it. A one-click rule adds a Claude Code deny for the vault, while Bash access stays permission-prompted. Seatbelt, not cage.

Also worth knowing: everything you paste into Claude Code is saved in plaintext on your own disk, in ~/.claude/projects/**.jsonl. The best paste is the one that never happened.

Free.

No account. No tiers. No catch. Auto-updates in place.

Download PasteSentry · 1.0.0 · universal
macOS 13 or later · universal DMG, 1.7 MB · signed & notarized · guards Claude Desktop, Claude Code & claude.ai out of the box