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Raycast Ollama

A Raycast extension brings local LLM chat, writing assistance and image understanding to macOS and Windows through local or remote Ollama servers.

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Raycast Ollama is a desktop launcher extension for people who want to chat with models and work on text without leaving Raycast. It connects to Ollama running on your machine or a remote server you choose.

  • Saved chats: Keep multi-turn conversations and choose separate models for general chat, image understanding and tool use.
  • Text and browser context: Add selected text, clipboard content or the current browser tab to a chat; browser context requires the Raycast browser extension.
  • Writing and image assistance: Summarize websites, explain code or text, fix grammar and rewrite content, or attach JPEG and PNG images for a vision-capable model to interpret.
  • Custom commands and model management: Create commands with your own prompts and model choices, and download, update, delete or unload models across your configured Ollama servers.
  • Tools in chat: Connect MCP tools to a model that supports tool calling, or use optional web search and web fetch through Ollama's hosted services.

The extension runs in Raycast on macOS and Windows and is open source under the MIT license. It requires an Ollama server and an installed model. Local inference doesn't require an Ollama API key; requests to a remote server go to that server. Hosted web search and web fetch require an internet connection and an API key from an Ollama account. Those web tools are also available to Raycast AI.

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