AI Commands

AI Commands turn prompts you reach for again and again into a one-press Raycast command. Pick text, open the command, get the result. Build your own to match how you write, code, or think, and chain in AI Extensions when a command needs to do more.

Discover AI Commands

Built-in AI Commands

Raycast ships a set of AI Commands that work out of the box. They're tuned for everyday cases like writing, communication, and code:

• Improve Writing: Tightens grammar and style without changing your meaning.
• Fix Spelling and Grammar: Corrects mistakes and highlights what changed.
• Explain This in Simple Terms: Simplifies a confusing word, sentence, or paragraph.
• Change Tone to Professional: Rewrites in a more formal register.
• Change Tone to Friendly: Warms up dry copy.
• Find Bugs in Code: Scans a snippet for likely issues.
• Summarize Webpage: Condenses the page open in your browser.
• Ask About Webpage: Answers a question about the page you're reading.

Create AI Commands

To make your own, search the Create AI Command command in Root Search. You'll see a form with one required field and a handful of optional ones.

• Prompt: The instructions sent to the model. Type @ to insert an AI Extension or { to insert a Dynamic Placeholder.
• Name & Icon: How the command appears in Root Search.
• Model: The model used when the command runs. AI Commands have their own model setting independent of Quick AI or AI Chat.
• Creativity: How loose the model's responses should be (none, low, medium, high, maximum).
• Reasoning Effort: For reasoning models, how much thinking the model should do before responding.
• Highlight Editing Changes: Useful for commands that rewrite selected text in-place. Raycast highlights what was edited.
• Tags: Free-form labels for organizing your commands.
• Organization: If you're in a Raycast team, choose whether the command is personal or shared with your org.

Press ⌘ / Ctrl Enter to save. The command appears in Root Search immediately.

Using AI Commands

Run an AI Command from Root Search like any other command. Most commands work on the active app's selection or focused field, so you typically:

1. Select some text in any app.
2. Open Raycast.
3. Search for the command and hit Enter.

Raycast shows the response in a window, and from there you can copy it, paste it, or continue the coversation with Raycast AI to refine or discuss the output.

A few prompt patterns to get you started:

• Translate {selection} to Swedish: Translate whatever you've highlighted.
• Summarize {selection} into three bullet points: Quick TL;DR.
• Reply to this email in my tone: {selection}: Drafted replies on tap.
• {argument name="Language"}: When you want to type a value at runtime, use an argument placeholder. Raycast prompts you for Language before the command runs.

{selection} and {argument} are two of many Dynamic Placeholders you can drop into a prompt. Others pull in your clipboard, the current date, the focused app, and more.

You can also pull in AI Extensions to make commands act on your tools, not just text. A command with @calendar what does my afternoon look like? becomes a one-shot daily check-in.

Manage AI Commands

Search Search AI Commands in Raycast to see every command you've created or that's built in. From the action panel:

• Edit AI Command (⌘ / Ctrl E): Open the command in the form view to change any field.
• Duplicate AI Command (⌘ / Ctrl D): Copy a command. The fastest way to start from a built-in.
• Share AI Command: Generate a shareable link for a command so a teammate can install it with one click.
• Import AI Commands: Bring in a set of commands from a JSON file. Use Import AI Commands in Root Search.

Built-in commands can be edited and duplicated but not deleted; your custom commands can be removed from the same action panel. Tags make it easier to keep a large library organized. Assign them when creating or editing, and filter by them in Search AI Commands.