Simple is good enough

Maybe something like this will work:
1. Program A indicates that it is ready to supply data by writing its identifier to clipboard/source.
2. Program B requests the data by writing its identifier to clipboard/destination.
3. Program A writes the data files in clipboard/data.
4. Program A indicates that it finished writing the data by erasing the content of clipboard/source and clipboard/destination.
5. Program B reads the data files from clipboard/data.

If no one requests the data from Program A, then it will still dump the data when it terminates. The only weaknesses I detect are a delay when the Paste operation is performed, and that the data will be lost if Program A crashes. There should be a separate clipboard folder for each session to avoid conflicts such as two users who share an account and override each other's Copy operations.