Pasted File Editor

The more telling detail here is that Willison had to reverse-engineer Claude's behavior at all. Anthropic hasn't published a spec for how its interface detects and handles large pastes, which means third-party tooling built around that behavior is coupling to undocumented heuristics that could shift without notice.

This connects to a thread running through recent coverage: the gap between what frontier models can handle and what their interfaces actually surface to users. Lovable's report on GPT-5.5 (covered June 1) highlighted a 22% reduction in context loss as a headline win, which only matters if the input pipeline is feeding the model clean, well-scoped context in the first place. Willison's tool is essentially a manual patch for that input layer, compensating for interface behavior that isn't standardized across providers. The fact that a respected independent developer is shipping workarounds for attachment handling suggests the UX layer around context management is still fragmented enough to create real friction for power users.

Watch whether Anthropic formalizes a public API or interface spec for large-paste handling within the next two quarters. If they do, tools like this become redundant; if they don't, expect more third-party wrappers to accumulate around the same undocumented behavior.