Raycast: ⚡ More performance improvements and new ways to send context to AI

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.