diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Management/commands/management/SetClipboardCommand.cs b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Management/commands/management/SetClipboardCommand.cs
index 69cea8361a..49ab5d768f 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Management/commands/management/SetClipboardCommand.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Management/commands/management/SetClipboardCommand.cs
@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
         [Parameter]
         public SwitchParameter PassThru { get; set; }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets or sets whether to use OSC52 escape sequence to set the clipboard of host instead of target.
+        /// </summary>
+        [Parameter]
+        [Alias("ToLocalhost")]
+        public SwitchParameter AsOSC52 { get; set; }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// This method implements the BeginProcessing method for Set-Clipboard command.
         /// </summary>
@@ -129,8 +136,28 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
 
             if (ShouldProcess(setClipboardShouldProcessTarget, "Set-Clipboard"))
             {
-                Clipboard.SetText(content.ToString());
+                SetClipboardContent(content.ToString());
             }
         }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Set the clipboard content.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="content">The content to store into the clipboard.</param>
+        private void SetClipboardContent(string content)
+        {
+            if (!AsOSC52)
+            {
+                Clipboard.SetText(content);
+                return;
+            }
+
+            var bytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(content);
+            var encoded = System.Convert.ToBase64String(bytes);
+            var osc = $"\u001B]52;;{encoded}\u0007";
+
+            var message = new HostInformationMessage { Message = osc, NoNewLine = true };
+            WriteInformation(message, new string[] { "PSHOST" });
+        }
     }
 }