Raycast Release Notes

Bring Your Own Model brings three familiar ways to use your preferred AI models back to Raycast v2. Connect any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with Custom Providers, run models through Ollama with Local Models, or add your OpenRouter API key to choose from its catalog. Once configured, your models are available across Raycast AI alongside Raycast’s built-in options.

In v2, Custom Providers, Local Models, and Bring Your Own Key require a Raycast Pro subscription. We know this is a meaningful change compared to v1 and want to be upfront about it. You can read more about our thinking and where we’re heading on the BYOAI article in the Manual.

✨ New

• AI: Added support OpenAI-compatible custom providers, local models via Ollama, and OpenRouter API keys, using their models across Raycast AI
• Quick AI: Added a Paste Formatted Response action
• Window Management: Added Resize Window and Move Window commands that take exact pixel dimensions and coordinates as arguments
• Window Management: Added Create Layout From Current Windows command allowing for quick capturing custom layouts from the windows currently on screen. The layout editor can also add any visible window, and a layout can place several windows of the same app
• Window Management: Apps launched by a custom layout can now be given command-line arguments

💎 Improvements

• AI: Added basic support for right-to-left text
• AI Settings: Enabled Ask Questions and Collapse Long Messages by default and removed their settings
• Root Search: Apps sharing a name are now disambiguated in search and app pickers
• File Search: Deep directories no longer outrank shallower or more recent files

🐞 Fixes

• Core: Fixed slow startup after system restart
• Dictation: Fixed an issue where dictated text could be submitted before the target app had finished receiving it, cutting off part of the transcription
• Extensions: Fixed Grid pagination, tooltips on List and Grid item icons and accessories, Form item info text, Alert icons, and checkbox preference grouping in Settings
• File Search: Fixed a race condition that could cause the index to remain incomplete
• File Search: Recent files now populate during indexing
• Keyboard: Fixed hotkeys for Dvorak - QWERTY ⌘ keyboard layout
• Main Window: Fixed Siri AI floating interface appearing in the main window on macOS 27
• Mission Control: Fixed empty Raycast windows accumulating in Mission Control on macOS 27
• Quick AI: Fixed launches from Root Search not applying the current Quick AI defaults in some situations
• Root Search: Recent files should now be consistent with File Search

Your favorite emojis are now just a : away. Type : followed by an emoji name to open the Inline Emoji Picker and insert emojis without breaking your flow.

Inline Emoji Picker works across text fields throughout Raycast, including AI Chat, Notes, Snippets, Quicklinks, and AI Commands. Suggestions follow your preferred emoji skin tone.

New

Emoji: Added Inline Emoji Picker. Type : followed by a name in any text field to search and insert emojis.

Improvements

Quick AI: Added support for dropping files from Finder directly into Quick AI to attach them, including while revealing the window with the global hotkey mid-drag

Root Search: Improved icon rendering of Quicklink favourites in compact mode

Root Search: Tab now performs primary action if AI or Tab to Quick AI is disabled

Fixes

AI Chat: Fixed a text scaling issue in “Ask Question” tool

AI Chat: Fixed run errors rendering above tool calls in some situations

AI Chat: Fixed failed image generations and remote tools appearing as completed

Clipboard History: Fixed an issue where selecting all content would also select list items

Clipboard History: Ensured pasting non-full entries can still correctly update history (ie. paste as plain text)

Emoji Picker: Fixed emoji jitter when moving selection

Emoji Picker: Fixed an issue where saving keywords on an AI suggested emoji would fail

Extensions: Fixed an issue where pressing Escape from an extension subview would mistakenly discard Raycast

File Search: Fixed an issue preventing file index compaction causing elevated disk space utilization

File Search: Fixed an issue where directories matching a term and containing many children would be hidden from results by its contents

File Search: Fixed an issue causing online-only files in indexed cloud folders (iCloud, Google Drive, etc) to be hydrated accidentally

My Schedule: Fixed an alignment issue when the time of event was formatted with a 12h clock

Notes: Fixed inline code background in completed todo items

Notes: Fixed empty list items being dropped when pasting markdown

Notes: Fixed checklist structure being lost when copying and pasting

Root Search: Fixed a regression that brought back tab to browse files

Settings: Fixed script command icons being cropped

UI: Fixed visual artefact on short popovers when using largest interface size

The best chats start with the right context. Screen Awareness brings context from your focused app or window into AI Chat or Quick AI, so you don’t have to copy text, attach screenshots, or explain what you’re looking at.

Use the Send Focused Window to AI command, choose Screen Awareness from the @ menu, or simply ask “summarise this” or “reply to this”.

The first time you use the command, a short onboarding guide helps you set a hotkey. Our team likes to double-tap the right Command key.

✨ New

• AI: Send Focused Window to AI command includes richer app and window context
• AI: New Ask Screen Awareness AI Extension to quickly give context to Raycast
• AI: Added compaction and context management support
• Quick AI: “Send Message” AI setting is now respected by Quick AI as well which allows submitting queries on Command Return
• Dictation: Added a way to import your vocabulary and hotkeys from other apps
• Dictation: Added a new “Add Word to Vocabulary” command to add a selected word or entered argument into your vocabulary
• Feedback: New Ask Feedback AI Extension to contact the Raycast team
• Hotkeys: Added support for chords using a modifier held on both sides of the keyboard (e.g. left ⌘ + right ⌘), including recording and display in the hotkey recorder

💎 Improvements

• Core: Text fields now expand your macOS Text Replacements
• Emoji Picker: Added the missing "Copy with Skin Tone…" action
• File Search: File detail previews now show document thumbnails (PDFs, Keynote, Pages, and others)
• File Search: Substantially reduced CPU from filesystem indexing during heavy file activity
• Hotkeys: The recorder now detects and warns about combinations that can't coexist with an existing hotkey, instead of flagging only identical ones (e.g. single-tap ⌘ vs double-tap ⌘⌘)

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Fixed answering a tool permission prompt doing nothing after quitting and reopening Raycast
• AI: Fixed the app crashing when a malformed question confirmation was received
• AI Chat: Fixed deleting a chat from the sidebar always asking for confirmation, even after choosing to not be asked again
• AI Chat: Fixed chats that stayed stuck looking busy after the agent had finished
• AI Chat: Fixed the window turning off Always on Top when opened from a background notification or by restoring a Window Management layout
• Clipboard History: Fixed macOS app-data permission prompts appearing when rendering file previews and icons
• Dictation: Fixed the dictation pill not following to the active Space
• Focus: Fixed the "no snooze" setting not being honored
• Focus: Fixed the duration picker not highlighting the right option when two durations were equal
• Focus: Fixed website blocking incorrectly matching text typed into Firefox's address bar
• Hyper Key: Fixed remapping and Caps Lock reset failing when multiple keyboards are connected, and fixed two Control keys being reported while the Hyper Key is held
• Stability: Fixed a machine-wide IOKit power-assertion handle leak that could eventually stop other apps from launching

Raycast 2.0 is out of Beta! 🎉

Thank you so much for being a part of it! We would not be at this point without all of your feedback and support.

With this release, Raycast v2 replaces v1. You will be guided through the update in Raycast, and your existing v2 beta data will remain unchanged. If you have not imported your v1 data yet, you will have the option to do so during the update. Some permissions may need to be authorized again after the migration.

During the beta, Dictation and AI Chat were available for free while we tested and improved the experience. With this release, these features will now be part of Raycast Pro. To help with the transition, signing in gives you a 7-day free trial of Pro. No credit card is required.

For more information on the update process, see our FAQ.

✨ New

• AI: Added a Clear Chat action, which resets a chat's messages while keeping its model, agent, and other configuration
• AI: Added support for mentioning AI extensions when replying to a question asked with the Ask User Question tool
• AI: Ask User Question tool can be collapsed to make browsing conversation easier while questions are unanswered
• MCP: Added loopback OAuth redirects so MCP providers that reject custom URL schemes, such as Atlassian, can now be connected

💎 Improvements

• AI: Error messages are clearer, more specific, and show a potential action to recover, like retry, change model, etc.
• AI: In the composer. backspace now only deletes text, and cmd+backspace is used to remove attachments, then the queued message, then the agent, then the folder
• AI: Code blocks now render tabs at four-space width
• AI: Speed up Screen Awareness screenshot captures
• AI: Improved OCR for PDFs when retrieving relevant context for AI conversations
• AI Commands: Updated the default AI Commands model to GPT-5.6 Luna
• Dictation: Added a word count to the details of each entry in dictation history
• UI: Improved scrolling performance across the app
• Window Management: Center hotkey now truly centers a window when “Respect Stage Manager” setting is enabled and there is enough space on the desktop for the centered window not to occlude the stage manager strip

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Fixed chats sometimes staying stuck in a working state after an agent or tool run had already finished, including after reopening the app
• AI: Fixed tool errors from third-party extensions being shown as raw JSON
• AI: Fixed an attachment error being shown for messages that had no attachment
• AI: Fixed a single failed image generation ending the whole run
• AI: Fixed long-running requests timing out too early by separating the wait for the first response from the idle timeout during streaming
• AI: Fixed a crash on machines where synced models had not been fully restored
• AI: Fixed importing settings and data deleting attachments from existing chats
• AI: Fixed compaction not reserving context when compacting in-between tool calls
• AI Chat: Fixed the pinned section in the sidebar reopening on every launch
• AI Skills: Fixed skill folders Raycast cannot read causing repeated background errors, and marked them with a "No Access" badge in Skills settings
• Calculator: Fixed calculator results not being saved to history when the main window was hidden or popped to root
• Notes: Fixed text being turned into links incorrectly
• Notes: Fixed bug in note deeplinks which opened last viewed note instead of linked note
• Root Search: Fixed Tab both opening a file and starting Quick AI

Some AI Chat requests take a little longer, and you shouldn’t have to keep checking whether they’re done.

Background notifications let you know when AI Chat has finished responding or needs your input while you’re working elsewhere. Keep using another app or chat, then jump back in from the notification when you’re ready. You can turn them on or off anytime in AI settings.

✨ New

• AI: Generated images can be dragged and dropped into other apps
• AI: New speed and intelligence stat bars make it easy to differentiate models
• AI Chat: Chats in the sidebar can be dragged and dropped between sections like Recent, Archive, individual folders and Pinned
• Quick Fix: Added an experimental option to preserve text formatting in supported apps like Slack and Notion. Enable it in the command’s settings
• Dictation: A new activity graph to see when you’re using dictation the most

💎 Improvements

• AI: Changed links in markdown to blue color to make them more visible
• AI Chat: Simplified and cleaned up the layout of the composer, confirmation prompts and questions asked back to the user
• AI Chat: Added right-click actions for links and files, making it easier to open, copy and share them
• AI Chat: Right-click anywhere in the sidebar to quickly create a new folder
• Cloud Sync: Added support for networks that use TLS-inspecting proxies (common in corporate setups) — Raycast now trusts the system certificate store and user-installed certificates, and shows a clearer status when a network blocks the secure connection
• Cloud Sync: The Synced Content view now shows real progress while duplicate items are being cleaned up
• Cloud Sync: Syncing a large backlog now runs in small, paced batches and pauses itself when it would slow down what you're doing, so the app stays responsive during big catch-ups
• Dictation: The “Copy Last Transcription” command is now “Get Last Transcription” and supports pasting to the active app too
• Dictation: Added Cloud Sync support for Transcription Styles
• Hotkeys: Added support for multi-modifier hotkeys (e.g. ⌥⌘)
• Hotkeys: Added support for single-tap modifier hotkeys (e.g. Right ⌘, Right ⇧)
• Performance: Improved latency for opening Clipboard History and Search Emoji & Symbols via hotkey
• Root Search: Improved application icons refresh when the source bundle icon updates
• Root Search: Added indexing for Parallels (Windows) applications when App Sharing is enabled in Parallels

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Fixed dictation getting re-triggered in some cases after running the Ask User Question tool
• AI: Branching a chat now duplicates its attachments, so the new branch keeps its files
• AI: Fixed bug in Quick AI where editing a message wasn’t regenerating the response
• AI Chat: Fixed chat deeplinks to open the linked conversation
• Cloud Sync: Fixed very long AI chats losing part of their history when syncing across devices
• Cloud Sync: Fixed disabling Cloud Sync and installing updates not working while the database was busy
• Cloud Sync: Fixed changes made right before a restart occasionally not being synced
• Notes: Fixed the emoji picker closing when text reflows
• Translator: Result text area can now be selected

The wait is over. Cloud Sync beta is here. You can now keep your Raycast data in sync across macOS v1, macOS v2, Windows and iOS.

Switch seamlessly between your work and home computers, take notes on the go, or start an AI chat on your phone and continue it on your laptop. These are just a few ways Cloud Sync helps your work flow across devices.

Cloud Sync is available to Raycast Pro subscribers.

✨ New

• Cloud Sync: Sync your data across macOS V1, macOS V2 beta, Windows beta and iOS
• Cloud Sync: Customize what gets synced across your devices
• Cloud Sync: Manage your synced devices
• Clipboard History: Added new Reset Paste Sequence command
• Root Search: Added ability to show favorites in compact mode

💎 Improvements

• AI:
  tags in AI markdown now render as line breaks
• AI: @-mentions get preserved when copying a selection in the UI
• AI: @-mentions left in the composer when closing AI Chat get preserved when re-opening AI Chat again
• AI Chat: Consecutive tool calls get collapsed into a group to reduce visual clutter
• AI Chat: Auto-loaded extensions now get persisted into the AI Extensions list of a chat and therefore stay loaded after a restart of AI Chat
• AI Settings: Added default reasoning effort settings to models view
• Database: Improved database recovery when the Application Support folder has been mistakenly removed or there is a transient keychain failure
• Extensions Menu Bar Items: Optimized performance and reduced energy usage caused by Menu Bar items updates
• File Search: Improved index compaction checkpoints to reduce index size on disk
• Raycast Focus: Support Focus Categories in Import & Export Settings & Data
• UI: Improved ghost dropdown button design (Settings selects)
• Window Management: layout previews now show a hint when width or height are set to auto

🐞 Fixes

• AI Chat: Fixed sidebar peek getting stuck when blurring window during peek open animation
• AI Chat: Fixed transparent overlaid sidebar
• Apple Shortcuts: Fixed running shortcuts requiring already provided automation permission
• Capture Window: Fixed window capture failing with non-default Interface Size
• Changelog: Fixed bad heading baseline alignment (with emoji)
• Clipboard History: Fixed bookmark triggering in Microsoft Office applications when copying
• Clipboard History: Fixed missing image when copying Figma layers as PNG
• Hotkeys: Fixed single-tap hotkey firing after fn combo (fn +key)
• Hotkeys: Fixed Script Commands hotkeys not being re-assignable after deleting a script
• Hyper Key: Improved Quick Press ABC input source switch reliability
• File Search: File Search no longer prevents Raycast from launching if the user’s disk is full
• Root Search: Fixed doubly-scaled icon in node command items
• Root Search: Fixed an alignment issue with compact command items
• Search Menu Bar Items: Fixed substring matching when searching for an item
• Search Menu Bar Items: Fixed occasional missing frontmost application icon
• Switch Windows: Fixed freeze caused by unresponsive app
• UI: Fixed potential crashes with virtual list/grid
• UI: Fixed date picker natural language edge cases
• UI: Fixed date picker dropping explicit clock times
• UI: Fixed calendar item icon on low-res screens
• UI: Fixed some icons scaling
• UI: Fixed a regression in preview/details spacing

You can now edit any message you've sent in AI Chat. Just hit the edit button, use the hotkey, or tap the up arrow to jump straight into your last message. Refine your prompt, resend, and continue the conversation seamlessly.

✨ New

• AI Chat: Edit previously sent messages via the edit button, hotkey, or by pressing the up arrow
• AI Chat: Reference skills directly in the composer with @ mentions
• AI Chat: Get more granular control on which tool calls run automatically with the new Always Allow list
• AI Chat: Reorder and edit queued messages before they're sent

💎 Improvements

• File Previews: Allowed SVGs to be previewed as images rather than code
• Hotkeys: You can now record ⌘+esc as a command hotkey
• Root Search: Removed Tab to browse on file search items to improve consistency around Quick AI usage

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Fixed attachment drop-zone positioning bug
• AI Chat: Fixed an issue where content would sip through the sidebar when it was overlaid and the window was blurred
• Calculator: Fixed system Language & Region preferences (24h format, number format) not being taken into account
• Calendar: Fixed the Calendar menu bar item sometimes being mislabeled as missing permissions
• Core: Fixed an occasional blocking alert at startup on macOS 27
• MCP: Fixed a scroll padding issue when no description was present
• Quicklinks: Fixed Quicklink form closing when selecting a file with the system sheet
• Search Arguments: Added missing badge for optional args
• Search Arguments: Consistently ensured we don’t allow submitting with incomplete args (Root Search, Snippets, Quicklinks, AI commands, etc)
• UI: Fixed some characters like Å being cut off in navigation search field
• UI: Fixed characters sometimes being clipped on the left side at specific zoom levels

File Search can now help you find files by their text contents.

If you want to quickly find that essay, source file or text document that you know contains a word or phrase but can’t quite remember the file name, just type the text in Root Search or File Search.

To enable Content Search toggle it on in Settings > File Search. After this content-based results will appear after any name or path results in File Search.

This is the first step in making File Search even more powerful and we aim to bring further improvements specifically to Content Search in the future.

✨ New

• AI: AI can ask you multiple choice questions through the Ask User Question tool when requiring extra information or when it’s not certain about something
• AI Chat: Long user messages collapse to take less space away with ability to expand them when needed
• File Search: You can now search contents of text documents from within File Search and Root Search
• File Search: Settings now have a “Reset to Defaults” button to restore all default Search Scopes and ignore patterns
• File Search: File Search now has a “Enforce Low Disk Space Block” to prevent File Search from indexing if you do not have enough disk space where Raycast is installed
• Hyper Key: Added Secure Input Compatibility mode. When enabled, you can use Hyper Key even in the context of Secure Input (e.g. password fields). While on, right Control shortcuts are reserved for Hyper Key and only Hyper shortcuts (⌃⌥(⇧)⌘) from Raycast will trigger.

💎 Improvements

• AI: Resetting AI content zoom to default is now aligned with current Interface Size
• File Search: New File Search index backend which should improve indexing and search performance
• Interface Size: Better aligned traffic light when using large/larger interface sizes
• Notes: Resetting Notes content zoom to default is now aligned with current Interface Size
• UI: Aligned date picker icon/indicator treatment with other selects
• Root Search: Improved width handling of search arguments (inputs and select menus)
• System Actions: The Bluetooth toggle now shows its on/off state in the HUD
• Uninstall Applications: You’re now warned when uninstalling an application that is currently running

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Fixed web search results being shown in 2 rows instead of 3 by accident
• AI: Fixed an issue where AI mention icon would sometimes bust-out
• AI: Fixed visual alignment of some tool calls
• AI: Fixed Always on Top not being persisted when continuing a Quick AI chat in AI Chat
• Clipboard History: Fixed an issue with entries created by Warp terminal after dropping an icon in it where we weren’t displaying the copied image correctly
• Clipboard History: Fixed occasional hangs caused by pasteboard item capture
• Dictation Settings: Fixed an issue that prevented scrolling the style dialog when over the textarea
• Extensions: Fixed an issue where list detail content was sometimes cut-off at the bottom
• Extensions: Fixed icon being too small in exception view
• HUD: Fixed the HUD appearing on the wrong Space
• Input Sources: Fixed a freeze when auto-switch input is enabled and IME is active
• Menu Bar: Fixed a bootloop on macOS 27 related to menu bar extensions
• Quicklinks: Fixed Quicklink arguments not being prompted when launched via hotkey
• Root Search: Fixed an issue where in some cases descenders would appear clipped in text in the search field
• Root Search: Fixed an issue where pressing down whilst on the last value of a select search argument would leak out and start navigating the main list
• Window Management: Fixed instant Space switching on macOS 27

New

Settings: Added a new Interface Size setting

Improvements

AI: Show richer error messages when completion fails in certain cases

AI Chat: Pressing Esc only closes history sidebar when in overlay mode

Hyper Key: Improved diagnostics when Hyper Key is not working because another process is keeping Secure Input active

Raycast Focus: Added missing Import Focus Categories command and Export Category action in Search Focus Categories

UI: Improved performance of hover state in list views

Root Search: Store and restore latest dropdown argument values

MCP: Add support for CIMD

Fixes

AI: Fix provider icons in the auto model popover wrapping when they shouldn’t

Applications: Fixed applications not always discovered in sub directories

Dictation: Fixed occasional crash in the equalizer

Dictation: Fix Styles hotkey not being cleaned up on deletion

Dictionary: Fixed blank window for some definitions

Dictionary: Fixed occasional crash when loading definitions

File Search: Better handling of mixed Latin and CJK filenames

Raycast Focus: Fixed “Restore Terminated Apps” not restoring apps after the session ends

Root Search: Fixed an issue where selection was wrongly preserved after a item stopped being suggested

Snippets: Fixed expansion mis deleting the keyword in some editors

Snippets: Fixed the {cursor} placeholder landing in the wrong position in some editors

Updater: Added privileged daemon process to ease updates for non admin users. If you’re in that case, you’ll be prompted to authorize the daemon in System Settings > Login Items & Extensions > App Background Activity. Once authorized, you can update it manually without entering admin credentials anymore.

As 2025 comes to a close, it’s the perfect time to reflect on how Raycast has helped you be more productive and stay in flow.

Take a look at your Raycast Wrapped to get insights on your Raycast launches, extensions usage, your most used apps, developer stats, time spent on meetings, AI usage, Focus stats, and so much more!

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Disclaimer: Most of the data displayed is stored locally, and Raycast does not have access to it. If you moved between machines during the year, some of the data might have been lost. If you’ve used Raycast for less than 14 days, you will not have enough data to be displayed – but there’s always next year!

💎 Improvements

File Search: Update File Search Beta to be on parity with Windows File Search.

🐞 Fixes

Lock Screen: Fixed an issue where the lock screen command could not be triggered reliably via hotkeys.

macOS Tahoe is out, bringing many user interface changes.

While there are no major new features, we've focused on implementing some of these design tweaks in Raycast, such as Liquid Glass controls in AI Chat.

Improvements

• Focus: Support for Comet browser

Fixes

• AI Chat: Window can now be made full-screen again
• AI Chat: Floating window will now follow the current space
• Auto-quit: Fix video conference apps terminated while audio, video or screen sharing was active (macOS Tahoe)

✨ New

Never take meeting notes again (😱) with Auto Transcribe, powered by Granola. Your meetings can now be transcribed and usefully summarized so you can stay focused on the discussion. Auto Transcribe works together with Auto Join Meetings so you can seamlessly jump into calls while Granola captures all the important details in the background.
Go to Settings 14 Extensions 14 My Schedule to enable and customize. You can decide which meetings this applies to as well as whether to show a confirmation before joining so you’re never caught off guard before joining your next call.

• AI Chat Text Settings: You can now control the text size and line spacing in AI Chat independently of the main window. See Settings 14 AI 14 AI Chat

🧪 New AI Experiments

• Auto Model: Let AI choose the best model for the job at hand. We’ve enabled this by default so you can simply pick Auto when choosing a model and the most suitable model will be used for your prompt. We’re currently testing this (hence, experimental!) and will be fine tuning it as we receive your feedback. Please use the 👍 👎 and let us know how it’s going in #ai-experiments. Check out the AI Manual for more details.
• Bring Your Own Models: For advanced users you can now add any OpenAI compatible LLM provider to Raycast AI. BYOM (Custom Providers) is disabled by default.

Note: To enable or disable AI Experiments go to Settings 14 AI 14 Experiments

🐞 Fixes

• Root Search: Do not present AI Extensions popover for @ prefix
• AI Chat: Fixed chat image capture layout
• AI Chat: Ensure AI Chat window is not shown before screen capture
• AI Chat: Ensure Escape cancels screen area capture
• AI Chat: Starting a new chat no longer cancels current completion if chat branching is enabled
• AI Chat: Fix image upload for custom models
• Markdown: Fixed hang when processing HTML comments
• Quick AI: Fix duplicate messages when regenerating a response
• MCP: Improved compatibility with HTTP servers including Github and Vercel
• MCP: Fixes issue running mcpm servers
• BYOM: Do not pass temperature if not supported by the model
• BYOM: Fix reasoning for Google API

🌿 Chat Branching (Experimental)

Create alternate conversation paths from any point in your chat history. Think of it as a "save point" where you can explore different directions without losing your original conversation. With background execution, you can kick off multiple branches that continue processing even when you switch between chats.

To use: From any AI Chat, simply press CMD + Shift + B to create a new branched chat and continue the conversation. Alternatively, you can right click on a chat in the sidebar, and select Branch Chat.

Note: This is an experimental feature. We’d like to see if you find it useful and how we might improve it. We’ve enabled it by default as it won’t disrupt your existing workflow, but if you’d like to disable it, go to AI Settings → Experiments. Please share your thoughts and feedback in #ai-experiments.

✨ New

• OpenRouter: We’ve added support for OpenRouter in order to give you even more control and flexibility over your AI usage in Raycast. OpenRouter provides access to a wide range of public models and has a beautiful, easy interface to manage your usage and costs without a subscription. To use: Add your OpenRouter API key in AI Settings → Custom Providers → OpenRouter. Once the key is validated, OpenRouter models will appear in the model picker.
• Clipboard History: Added a new Paste Sequentially command allows you to paste previously copied content one after another into your frontmost application. It’s best used with a hotkey, e.g. ⌥ + ⇧ + V.
• Calendar: Added support Riverside and StreamYard as conference providers for upcoming meetings.

💎 Improvements

• AI: Added a Show Tool Call Info switch in Settings → AI. When enabled you can view arguments and output for all tool calls in the chat
• AI: We now show a warning in the chat if there is an on-going incident with the LLM provider
• AI Chat: Composer text is now preserved when switching between chats
• AI Chat: Improved handling of presets in new chat menu
• MCP: The server version is now displayed when viewing a server in Manage Servers
• MCP: Added DENO_PATH and NODE_PATH to stdio environment

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Always use the original image when saving and sharing a chat image
• AI: Fixed cursor jumping after mentioning an AI Extension in root search
• AI: Fixed chat message layout corruption in Tahoe developer betas
• AI: Improved model fallback handling when using an API key
• AI Chat: Fixed jumping to first pinned chat after completion when >20 pinned items
• AI Chat: Generated chat titles should now use the user’s language
• Quick AI: Fixed Regenerate with Model action for commands
• MCP: Fixed the Streamable HTTP client accept header
• MCP: Fixed an issue parsing large numbers
• MCP: The HTTP client is now compatible with Atlassian’s MCP server

🔑 Bring Your Own Key

Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) seamlessly integrates your existing AI provider accounts with Raycast's intuitive interface. With BYOK you can now use Raycast AI with your own API keys for Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. This allows you to send as many AI messages as you want at your own cost without a Pro subscription. To add an API key, open Settings -> AI and scroll down to the Custom API Keys section.

✨ New

• Manage Models: A new command to view and manage all your AI models. You can easily disable individual models or all models from the same provider using the command.
• Experimental AI features: The AI landscape moves quick — what works with one provider today might behave differently tomorrow, or might not be consistently supported across different models. You can now toggle on experimental AI features to try out early-stage features that we’re exploring, testing and trialing. Turn them on in AI Settings and join #ai-experiments in our Slack Community to share your thoughts!

Available Experiments:

• 🎏 MCP HTTP Servers: Support for HTTP MCP servers using the SSE (Server Sent Events) and Streamable protocols.
• 🦙 AI Extensions for Ollama models: If you’ve got Ollama installed, you can try out tool calling with local models. Since tool choice and streaming for tool calls aren’t supported by Ollama just yet, this can be a bit unreliable - which is why it’s experimental 😉

💎 Improvements

• Spotlight: Added new “Replace Spotlight with Raycast” command for a smoother transition to your favorite launcher
• AI Chat: Added new Send Active Window to AI Chat, Send Selected Area to AI Chat, and Send Focused Browser Tab to AI Chat commands to capture context even quicker

🐞 Fixes

• Safari Extension: Fixed an issue where the connection to the app would be closed and couldn’t reconnect. Make sure to update Safari Extension to the latest version in App Store.

✨ New

Local models allow you to run nearly any open source LLM locally, on your machine. Through our new integration with Ollama, you’ll now have access to more than 100 AI models from various providers ranging from small 135M to massive 671B parameter models. We’ve also added experimental support for AI Extensions with Local Models. Since tool choice and streaming for tool calls aren’t supported by Ollama just yet, AI Extensions can be a bit unreliable when using Local Models. However, if you want to try it out, you can enable it by going to AI Settings. Keep in mind, it likely won’t be as reliable as using non-local models.

✨ New

Local Models: Get started by installing Ollama. Then download Ollama models directly from the Raycast Settings, in the Local Models section of the AI tab by copy & paste model names. You can find the list of all available Ollama models here.

Local Models: Support for Vision with local models supporting it. You can find the list of supporting models here.

Local Models: Experimental support for AI Extensions with local models that support tool calls. You can find the list of supporting models here.

💎 Improvements

• MCP: Improved error reporting when stdio servers fail to run
• MCP: Improved compatibility with server JSON schemas
• MCP: Added a Copy to Clipboard action in Manage Servers

🐞 Fixes

• Onboarding: Fixed image assets not loading in the onboarding pages
• AI: Fixed issue where community AI Extensions were not disabled when AI was disabled
• AI: Fixed remote tool calls in AI Commands
• AI: Disable default tools in AI Commands
• AI Chat/Quick AI Web Search setting now works even if the Ask Web command is disabled
• MCP: Fix handling of quoted server arguments
• MCP: Server updates are no longer saved if the updated server fails to run
• Export: Prevent the export/import view from resizing the main window