Changelog

We made more memory and performance improvements. AI Chat, Notes and Settings now each run in their own process, so a busy chat or a heavy note no longer slows down Root Search, and closing them frees up their memory. The launcher can use up to 35% less memory while idle. File Search uses up to 80% less memory at peak and up to 95% less while searching, searches are up to 30% faster, and background indexing uses much less CPU. More details are below.

💬 Send Context to AI

Two new commands let you show AI exactly what you're looking at. Send Element to AI lets you hover over anything on your screen, like a paragraph, an image or a button, and click to send it to AI Chat. To share a whole window instead, use Send Window to AI.

Tip: Assign a hotkey like ⌘ + ⇧ + 0 to Send Element to AI to grab context even faster.

✨ New

• Custom AI Providers: You can now give custom provider models Raycast's Web Search, Read Page, Search Images and Chart tools. Turn them on with a tools block in providers.yaml, and choose whether each one runs on Raycast, your company gateway, or a vendor you have a key for (Tavily, Exa, Firecrawl, Brave, Perplexity or Jina)
• Script Commands: Added controls to enable or disable background refresh for individual scripts

💎 Improvements

• AI: Made AI requests smaller, so local models reply to a simple message much faster than before and simple requests use fewer credits, without sacrificing response quality. Initial context is now 15% smaller for normal queries, and 40% smaller with automatic extension and skill discovery turned off
• AI: Improved Quick Fix performance
• AI Skills: Improved error details to help AI recover when a skill cannot be loaded
• AI Chat: Included archived chats in sidebar search results
• AI Chat: The extensions list in chat settings now shows every extension whose tools the chat uses, including Terminal, Finder and Automations
• AI Commands: AI Commands and automations no longer stop to show a question form. They now include any question in their reply instead
• AI Commands: When Replace Selection can't paste the response, the response is kept on your clipboard and in Clipboard History, and a warning tells you it was copied. This also applies to Translator
• Dictation: We now show a clearer status when wrapping up sessions and confirm with a success HUD when finishing a session
• Dictation: We improved post-processing to be faster and more reliable
• Clipboard History: Added an option to save Universal Clipboard items from your iPhone or iPad as soon as they arrive. Find it under Clipboard History settings
• Extensions: Added support for pasting files copied from Finder or File Explorer directly into file pickers
• File Search: Improved CPU and memory utilization. It now uses up to 80% less memory at peak and up to 95% less while searching. Searches are also up to 30% faster, depending on the search terms and number of documents
• File Search: Common development environment caches (e.g. .cargo/global-cache, .venv) are now excluded from indexing
• File Search: Added image dimensions to the details panel
• Memory & Performance: AI Chat, Notes and Settings now each run in their own process, separate from the launcher. A busy AI Chat or a heavy note no longer slows down Root Search, closed windows free their memory after a cooldown period so Raycast uses less while idle, and it's easier to see which part of Raycast is using memory or CPU
• Navigation: Added support for Page Up and Page Down in lists and grids
• Root Search: Improved ranking to favor complete words and exact title matches while preserving results learned from your previous searches
• Root Search: Prioritized applications when results are otherwise equally relevant
• Settings: AI Model provider sections in the Manage Models settings page now persist their collapsed state
• Settings: Opening a setting or command from elsewhere in Raycast now reliably scrolls to it and highlights it, including when you switch settings pages or select the same item again
• Startup: Raycast now waits for the keychain to become available instead of showing "Failed to start". If it waits more than 10 seconds, it tells you what it's waiting for

🐞 Fixes

• Action Panel: Fixed the action panel sometimes staying stuck open
• AI Chat: Fixed Quick Look when viewing attachments displaying an icon mid-transition
• AI Chat: Long chat titles and the model and reasoning effort labels truncate in the header
• AI Chat: Long model names in the / menu truncates, and hovering a model now shows a preview of its details
• AI Chat: Fixed chats created before 2.3.0 reopening with no agent and the default model. They now restore their original agent, model and reasoning effort
• AI Chat: Fixed Reasoning Effort being hidden for agents whose model is set to Inherit
• AI Chat: Fixed ⌘ + Enter and ⌥ + Enter not working while the tool-approval input is focused
• AI Chat: Fixed chats that AI had archived, pinned or deleted not updating in the sidebar until Raycast was restarted
• Auto Quit: Fixed apps like Slack being quit during calls on macOS 27
• Clipboard History: Fixed clipboard capture getting stuck when an app stopped responding while its copied content was being read
• Dictation: Fixed an issue where dictation would continue when you locked your machine or put it to sleep
• Dictionary: Allowed text selection in the detail view
• Extensions: Fixed manually running a command re-enabling background refresh after it had been disabled
• Extensions: Allowed text selection in list detail panels
• Feedback: Allowed Escape to close the window, respecting the user preference
• File Search: Brought back the Raycast v1 shortcut ⌘ + I for Show Info in Finder
• File Search: Content search using Spotlight should now be faster and return the intended results
• Focus: Fixed apps blocked by a Focus session reopening before you acknowledged that the session ended. They're now restored when you dismiss the completion prompt, even after a restart
• Hotkeys: Fixed text typed right after opening Raycast with a hotkey being swallowed for a few seconds and then lost
• Hotkey Recorder: Fixed flickering when deleting a hotkey with Backspace
• Launcher: Fixed the global hotkey reopening the last command instead of Root Search, and the window not closing or returning to root after a command was opened by hotkey during startup
• Notes: Improved performance when opening notes with deeply nested lists
• Notes: Made sure notes you create now keep working after future updates
• Notes: Fixed code blocks being dropped when AI created or edited a note
• Notes: Fixed note titles of AI created notes not updating after first line edit
• MCP: Fixed edits to running servers reverting to their previous configuration
• Memory Usage: Fixed various memory leaks that could contribute to RAM usage growing
• Open Camera: Fixed the camera preview closing when Raycast loses focus, for example while changing Video Effects in Control Center. It now stays on screen until you close it
• Quick AI: Fixed new chats using the default model from the model list instead of the Quick AI default model set in Settings
• Quicklinks: Preserved favicons when “Open With” is a browser
• Root Search: Localized application names should now correctly be searchable
• Root Search: Prevented Quicklink arguments retaining focus after execution
• Settings: Fixed the selection highlight being too faint for disabled commands
• Settings: Fixed a crash when changing the interface size while the main window was hidden
• Settings: Fixed command rows expanding and highlighting again after you'd already navigated to them
• Updater: Fixed an issue where querying the updater's Login Items status could freeze Raycast.