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# Get Selected Text

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This is an imperfect solution due to Inbox AI being a sandboxed app on the AppStore, it cannot be improved while remaining on the AppStore.
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Attempts to get the selected text from the screen. It does this by simulating a CMD+C keypress and reading the result of the clipboard. If this fails, or is empty, the result will be "NO SELECTED TEXT FOUND".

This command automatically has it [Next Action Field](/inbox-ai/actions/next-action-field.md) set to [Return Result to Previous AI](/inbox-ai/actions/built-in-actions/flow-control/return-result-to-previous-ai.md).