copy a Claude Code answer as markdown with /copy

I often select an answer in Claude Code with the mouse, and copy-paste it into a note. But the code ticks are gone, the links are stripped, and sometimes newlines are added where they shouldn’t. The selection copies what the terminal renders, not what the model writes.

For a while my workaround was to /export. It can put the whole conversation on the clipboard, and I fished the one answer out of it by hand.

Turns out /copy exists. It puts the last response on the clipboard as raw markdown, backticks and links intact. From the commands reference:

Copy the last assistant response to clipboard.

Pass a number N to copy the Nth-latest response: /copy 2 copies the second-to-last.

When code blocks are present, shows an interactive picker to select individual blocks or the full response. Press w in the picker to write the selection to a file instead of the clipboard, which is useful over SSH

I found it by asking Claude Code whether some setting could make the mouse-copy keep the markdown. There is no such setting. At least there’s /copy.