AI

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There are three main ways to use Raycast AI:

• Quick AI: It’s the fastest way to get answers to your questions directly from within Raycast. Ideal for one-off questions. Here’s a video to see it in action.
• AI Chat: A standalone chat window to ask AI anything. Ideal as an assistant during your workday.
• AI Commands: Pre-built or custom instructions, ideal for common tasks such as improve your writing.
• AI Extensions (Beta): Use @-mention to ask any extension a question or help you with your daily workflow. Check out the guide AI Extensions or watch the video to learn more.

Examples

Below are a few examples to familiarize yourself with Raycast AI. The examples show how to ask AI something, use the built-in commands, create your own custom commands, and interact with the AI Chat window.

Example 1: Quick AI

Follow the steps to ask AI anything:

1. Open Raycast
2. Type your question, f.e. “What were the specs of the first Macintosh?”
3. Press Tab to switch to Quick AI
4. Perform your next action, e.g. press ⌘ J to continue the conversation in the AI Chat

Some more noteworthy features:

• You can press Tab after opening Raycast to switch to Quick AI. This way you can access your previous question.
• Quick AI is only for one-off questions. If you want to ask a follow up question, continue in the chat.
• You can hide the Ask AI Tab hint via Settings → Extensions → Raycast AI. The Tab key still works.

Example 2: AI Chat

Follow the steps to interact with the AI Chat:

1. Open Raycast
2. Search for “AI Chat” to open the spearate chat window
3. Type in any question you want to start a conversation
4. Continue the conversation with follow up questions
5. Press ⌘ K, select “Ask AI” and search for “Make Shorter”
6. Raycast applies the AI Command to shorten the previous message

Pro Tip: Assign a global hotkey (e.g. ⌥ J) via Preferences → Extensions -> Raycast AI -> AI Chat to open the chat quicker

Example 3: Explain Words

Follow the steps to explain the selected word:

1. Select the word “philosophy”
2. Open Raycast and search for “Explain This in Simple Terms”
3. Raycast AI responds with the definition of the word “philosophy”

Example 4: Translate Text

Follow the steps to create a new AI Command that translates selected text to any language:

1. Open this article and select the three paragraphs
2. Open Raycast, search for “Search AI Commands”
3. Type in “translate to english” (or any other language) and hit ↵
4. Raycast opens a new chat with the translation of the selected text

To add the AI Command to your Raycast Root Search, continue with these steps:

1. Go back to “Search AI Commands” and search for “translate”
2. Press ⌘ E to edit the AI Command
3. Give it a title-case title, e.g. “Translate to English”, change the icon to Flag, and the creativity to low
4. Press ⌘ ↵ to update the AI Command
5. Now you can use the AI Command from your Root Search

Placeholders

You can make your AI Commands dynamic with Dynamic Placeholders.

Image Generation

OpenAI models allow you to generate images using DALL·E 2 or DALL·E 3.

Attachments in AI Chat

Provide more context in your chats using attachments.

AI Models Request Limits

Request limits is shared by all models in the respective group. This is a quickly moving space - we regularly review the limits we offer and reserve the right to update these at any time.

Raycast Pro models:

• 10 requests per minute
• 200 requests per hour

Exception:

• o3-mini: 150 requests per 24 hours

Advanced AI add-on models:

Same as above plus:

• 75 requests per 3 hours
• 150 requests per 24 hours

Exception:

• o1: 50 requests per week
• o1-preview: 50 requests per week
• o1-mini: 50 requests per 24 hours

More about the models and their context limit here.

Note: Context size varies for each model and can be verified in the model selector, which is available in the AI settings and AI Chat.

Note: “Submit Without Generating” does not count towards your request limits.