Changelog

Today we’re introducing Dictate to AI, a new command that combines what you say with context from your focused app to give you relevant AI responses in fewer steps. You can turn context on or off in the command settings.

Tip: Assign a hotkey like Control + A to Dictate to AI for even quicker access.

🧮 AI Usage

A new menu bar command to easily keep track of your AI usage in Raycast. You can activate this via Raycast Settings → AI → Show AI Usage in Menu Bar.

✨ New

• Dictation: The all new Dictate to AI command, allowing you to easily go from talking to responses in seconds
• Dictation: A brand new dictation AI extension, allowing you to effortlessly use your transcriptions in AI chats and manage your styles and get feedback on them
• Contacts: Added the Contacts AI Extension to search, create, update, and delete contacts from AI Chat
• Extensions: Added an option to copy settings, history, and shortcuts when forking an extension and disable the original extension
• Organizations: Added your organizations to root search to jump straight to their settings

💎 Improvements

• AI Chat: Allowed renaming chats before the first response finishes
• AI Chat: Improved handling of unavailable models
• Dictation: Improved post-processing quality and performance
• Extensions: Allowed selecting and copying text from setup instructions
• Extensions: Improved rendering performance for large inline images
• Notes: Checked tasks now move below the unchecked tasks of their group
• Notes: The pinned Notes window now stays visible when switching Spaces
• Proxy: Added support for proxy auto-configuration (PAC) scripts when Use System Proxy Settings is on
• Proxy: Proxy setting changes now apply without restarting Raycast

🐞 Fixes

• AI Chat: Fixed premature timeouts while models from custom provider extensions were loading
• AI Chat & Quick AI: Fixed resumed background tasks and AI commands unexpectedly asking for input
• Changelog: Fixed dates incorrectly displaying “0 months ago”
• Clipboard History: Fixed an issue where selection would default to the top when you have 20 or more pinned items
• Extensions: Fixed freezes when opening extensions such as Downloads Manager
• Extensions: Fixed lists and grids permanently stopping to load more items when the extension was low on memory. They now resume once memory frees up
• MCP: Fixed connections to older HTTP servers, including Sketch
• Root Search: Fixed wrong sizing of AI command icons
• Search Screenshots: Fixed newly created screenshots sometimes failing to appear
• Search Screenshots: Fixed HEIC and HEIF images being skipped during indexing
• UI: Improved performance when displaying long filenames, paths, and URLs