Raycast 2.0: AI agents and launcher workflow overview

This Raycast 2.0 overview presents a keyboard-first launcher for everyday computer tasks alongside AI chat and automation. The speaker demonstrates app launching, file searches by name or content, editable clipboard history, and reusable text snippets with dynamic placeholders. Window management includes 58 predefined arrangements and custom commands. Hotkeys, command aliases, and quicklinks provide shortcuts to apps, folders, websites, and app deep links.

The AI portion covers quick questions with follow-up replies, grammar fixes, translation, and image conversion. The speaker also shows building extensions with Raycast AI and creating a custom AI agent that launches through a hotkey. Other examples include personal context and memory, adding skills, and sharing an entire screen or a selected area with AI. The claim that users can chat with all the latest models comes from the speaker; the transcript does not identify model names or explain where inference runs.

The broader workflow includes dictation, calculations with history, meeting access, focus sessions, and screenshot annotation through CleanShot. The source description lists Mac and Windows downloads, while the demonstration describes syncing data across Macs, a PC, and an iPhone. It does not establish feature parity between platforms or explain offline operation, local model support, hardware requirements, or which features require Raycast Pro.