How to add an attachment to AI Chat?
- Select “Add Attachments…” in the action panel (
⌘⇧A) - Click on the ⊕ button and select one of the attachment providers
- Drag&Drop or paste attachments directly into AI Chat
Quick Look an attachment with double-click or by selecting it and pressing space.
Some attachments may need System Permissions to work.
- Screen Capture: Screen & System Audio Recording permission
- My Schedule: Calendars access
- Selected File From Finder: Automation → Raycast → Finder
Image attachments are securely uploaded to our servers for AI processing, enabling you to access them later. If you delete a message or chat that includes attachments, those attachments will be deleted from the server.
Supported attachments
- Text based files or content (
.txt,.md,cvs…). Some attachment providers also fit in this category like “My Schedule” or “Add Selected Text” - Text based attachments work with any AI model
- PDF files, only the text content of the file is extracted
- Image type natively supported on Apple devices (
.jpeg,.png,.webp,.gif,.heic...) - Some types may be converted to
.pngor.jpegfor compatibility - Image based attachments only work with model that support Vision like GPT-4o.
Other composite file types are not supported (e.g. .docx , .pptx , .key).