Changelog

We rebuilt the core of Raycast AI. You can now give AI Chat a task and it works out a plan, uses your extensions, writes and runs code, checks the results, and keeps going until it's finished. When something fails, it tries a different approach. And when it needs a decision from you, it stops, asks you, and then continues where it left off.

Tasks like these cost more to run than a single question, which is why this release also changes how we charge for AI. Our plans move from rate-limited to usage-based, all subscription prices stay the same, and there's a new Max plan for heavier usage. Read the full reasoning on our blog.

But there is more…

🔁 Bring Your Own Subscriptions

You can now connect your Claude or ChatGPT account to any paid Raycast plan and use those models in AI Chat, Quick AI, and AI Commands. This lets you run the heaviest tasks without worrying about additional costs. We plan to add other providers in the future, turning AI Chat into your single interface to get the most out of your subscriptions.

📁 Projects

Projects keep conversations about the same topic together. They have their own memory, so you don't have to explain yourself every time you start a new chat, and the agent builds on decisions you've already made. You can also give a project a working directory. Point it at a codebase, an Obsidian vault, or any folder on your Mac, and the agent knows where to work with your files.

🤖 Automations

Automations run prompts on a schedule, so you don't have to start the same task yourself every time. The agent works in the background and adds the result to a chat. Our team uses them to triage their email inboxes every morning, babysit open pull requests every hour, and update Raycast’s memory from their meeting notes every evening.

✨ New

• Window Management: Added Focus Next App Window and Focus Previous App Window commands that cycle through the windows of the focused app
• Window Management: Added Minimize on This Display, a per-monitor Show Desktop that minimizes every window on the display Raycast is on and leaves the other monitors untouched
• Window Management: Custom layouts have a new Other Windows option: Minimize Others minimizes every window that isn't part of the layout when it's applied, and Close Others closes them (including already-minimized ones) as a workspace reset, with apps keeping their unsaved-changes prompts
• AI: Added support for rendering Mermaid diagrams
• AI: Added Auto-review rules for greater control over how Auto mode behaves
• AI: Press ⌘ + F to find text in chat
• AI: Deleted chats now land in Recently Deleted, where you can restore them before they're permanently removed after a retention window of 60 days

💎 Improvements

• AI: Raycast now prevents your computer from sleeping while AI is running
• AI: Tool confirmations now default to Auto, so sessions no longer ask for permission on every tool call if you never touched the setting
• AI: Searching chats will now include content hits
• AI: Model picker now show your recently used models
• AI: @ mention menu will now order options based on frecency
• AI: Search the / model menu and @ mention menu by provider, so typing /ollama or /openai finds the matching models
• Script Commands: Added support for using scripts with a text argument as fallback commands
• Extensions: Improved performance when displaying large extension views
• File Search: Directories automatically excluded from indexing due to significant churn can now be permanently re-included via File Search Settings
• File Search: Exact term matches should now rank higher in results
• MCP: Added Reset Sign In so you can retry an incomplete sign-in without reinstalling the server

🐞 Fixes

• AI Chat: Fixed tool calls silently losing their arguments when streamed from a custom provider in certain cases
• AI Local Models: Ollama connections no longer go through the system proxy, fixing repeated connection failures and a probe loop for people running a proxy
• Applications: Fixed some packaged apps (like Spotify) intermittently disappearing from running apps and frontmost-app detection
• Calculator: Fixed missing results for “now”, “time”, “today”, “tomorrow”, and “yesterday”
• Calculator: Fixed unnecessary results appearing when entering plain numbers
• Calculator History: Fixed an issue where some calculations would appear to truncate too eagerly in the list view
• Extensions: Fixed an issue with form label/control alignment
• Extensions: Fixed getting stuck on the success screen after forking an extension
• Extensions: Updated outdated AI models used by extensions and fixed creativity settings being ignored
• File Search: Fixed a few cases where case sensitivity was causing File Search to exclude or include paths unintentionally
• File Search: File Search should now trigger a full re-index on startup and wake-up less often
• Hotkeys: Fixed the Copilot key (Hyper Key) toggling Raycast when the hotkey is the bare Windows key, and pressing Win while another modifier is already held no longer counts as a Win tap
• Hyper Key: Fixed Caps Lock staying on after leaving a game when Caps Lock is set as the Hyper Key
• Launch at Login: Fixed Raycast not starting at login when a Microsoft Store update was still being registered
• MCP: Fixed sign-in failures with some servers, including Tripsy
• Root Search: Fixed an issue where the action panel could sometimes reopen when navigating back to Root Search
• Settings: Fixed Escape inside a Settings dialog closing the whole Settings window instead of the dialog
• Settings: Fixed several Windows Settings search results opening the general settings page instead of the specific sub-page they described
• Store: Fixed cut-off extension details on the installation screen
• Store: Fixed installing extensions after choosing to ignore platform restrictions, and updating those extensions afterward