# Raycast macOS 2.7: ⚡ More performance improvements and new ways to send context to AI URL: https://www.raycast.com/changelog/macos/2-7 Released: 2026-10-09 ![image](https://misc-assets.raycast.com/releases/d42583e8111cf274e8962d5fb2a2f2d427686779f6677b05d4274503527f757e.png) We made more memory and performance improvements. AI Chat, Notes and Settings now each run in their own process, so a busy chat or a heavy note no longer slows down Root Search, and closing them frees up their memory. The launcher can use up to 35% less memory while idle. File Search uses up to 80% less memory at peak and up to 95% less while searching, searches are up to 30% faster, and background indexing uses much less CPU. More details are below. ## 💬 Send Context to AI Two new commands let you show AI exactly what you're looking at. **Send Element to AI** lets you hover over anything on your screen, like a paragraph, an image or a button, and click to send it to AI Chat. To share a whole window instead, use **Send Window to AI**. **Tip:** Assign a hotkey like `⌘ + ⇧ + 0` to Send Element to AI to grab context even faster. ## ✨ New - **Custom AI Providers**: You can now give custom provider models Raycast's Web Search, Read Page, Search Images and Chart tools. [Turn them on](https://manual.raycast.com/ai/custom-providers#tools) with a `tools` block in `providers.yaml`, and choose whether each one runs on Raycast, your company gateway, or a vendor you have a key for (Tavily, Exa, Firecrawl, Brave, Perplexity or Jina) - **Script Commands**: Added controls to enable or disable background refresh for individual scripts ## 💎 Improvements - **AI**: Made AI requests smaller, so local models reply to a simple message much faster than before and simple requests use fewer credits, without sacrificing response quality. Initial context is now 15% smaller for normal queries, and 40% smaller with automatic extension and skill discovery turned off - **AI:** Improved Quick Fix performance - **AI Skills**: Improved error details to help AI recover when a skill cannot be loaded - **AI Chat**: Included archived chats in sidebar search results - **AI Chat**: The extensions list in chat settings now shows every extension whose tools the chat uses, including Terminal, Finder and Automations - **AI Commands**: AI Commands and automations no longer stop to show a question form. They now include any question in their reply instead - **AI Commands**: When **Replace Selection** can't paste the response, the response is kept on your clipboard and in Clipboard History, and a warning tells you it was copied. This also applies to **Translator** - **Dictation:** We now show a clearer status when wrapping up sessions and confirm with a success HUD when finishing a session - **Dictation:** We improved post-processing to be faster and more reliable - **Clipboard History**: Added an option to save Universal Clipboard items from your iPhone or iPad as soon as they arrive. Find it under Clipboard History settings - **Extensions**: Added support for pasting files copied from Finder or File Explorer directly into file pickers - **File Search**: Improved CPU and memory utilization. It now uses up to 80% less memory at peak and up to 95% less while searching. Searches are also up to 30% faster, depending on the search terms and number of documents - **File Search**: Common development environment caches (e.g. `.cargo/global-cache`, `.venv`) are now excluded from indexing - **File Search:** Added image dimensions to the details panel - **Memory & Performance:** AI Chat, Notes and Settings now each run in their own process, separate from the launcher. A busy AI Chat or a heavy note no longer slows down Root Search, closed windows free their memory after a cooldown period so Raycast uses less while idle, and it's easier to see which part of Raycast is using memory or CPU - **Navigation**: Added support for `Page Up` and `Page Down` in lists and grids - **Root Search**: Improved ranking to favor complete words and exact title matches while preserving results learned from your previous searches - **Root Search**: Prioritized applications when results are otherwise equally relevant - **Settings:** AI Model provider sections in the Manage Models settings page now persist their collapsed state - **Settings**: Opening a setting or command from elsewhere in Raycast now reliably scrolls to it and highlights it, including when you switch settings pages or select the same item again - **Startup**: Raycast now waits for the keychain to become available instead of showing "Failed to start". If it waits more than 10 seconds, it tells you what it's waiting for ## 🐞 Fixes - **Action Panel**: Fixed the action panel sometimes staying stuck open - **AI Chat:** Fixed Quick Look when viewing attachments displaying an icon mid-transition - **AI Chat**: Long chat titles and the model and reasoning effort labels truncate in the header - **AI Chat**: Long model names in the `/` menu truncates, and hovering a model now shows a preview of its details - **AI Chat**: Fixed chats created before 2.3.0 reopening with no agent and the default model. They now restore their original agent, model and reasoning effort - **AI Chat**: Fixed Reasoning Effort being hidden for agents whose model is set to Inherit - **AI Chat**: Fixed `⌘ + Enter` and `⌥ + Enter` not working while the tool-approval input is focused - **AI Chat**: Fixed chats that AI had archived, pinned or deleted not updating in the sidebar until Raycast was restarted - **Auto Quit**: Fixed apps like Slack being quit during calls on macOS 27 - **Clipboard History**: Fixed clipboard capture getting stuck when an app stopped responding while its copied content was being read - **Dictation**: Fixed an issue where dictation would continue when you locked your machine or put it to sleep - **Dictionary**: Allowed text selection in the detail view - **Extensions**: Fixed manually running a command re-enabling background refresh after it had been disabled - **Extensions**: Allowed text selection in list detail panels - **Feedback**: Allowed Escape to close the window, respecting the user preference - **File Search**: Brought back the Raycast v1 shortcut `⌘ + I` for **Show Info in Finder** - **File Search:** Content search using Spotlight should now be faster and return the intended results - **Focus**: Fixed apps blocked by a Focus session reopening before you acknowledged that the session ended. They're now restored when you dismiss the completion prompt, even after a restart - **Hotkeys**: Fixed text typed right after opening Raycast with a hotkey being swallowed for a few seconds and then lost - **Hotkey Recorder**: Fixed flickering when deleting a hotkey with Backspace - **Launcher**: Fixed the global hotkey reopening the last command instead of Root Search, and the window not closing or returning to root after a command was opened by hotkey during startup - **Notes**: Improved performance when opening notes with deeply nested lists - **Notes**: Made sure notes you create now keep working after future updates - **Notes**: Fixed code blocks being dropped when AI created or edited a note - **Notes**: Fixed note titles of AI created notes not updating after first line edit - **MCP**: Fixed edits to running servers reverting to their previous configuration - **Memory Usage:** Fixed various memory leaks that could contribute to RAM usage growing - **Open Camera**: Fixed the camera preview closing when Raycast loses focus, for example while changing Video Effects in Control Center. It now stays on screen until you close it - **Quick AI**: Fixed new chats using the default model from the model list instead of the **Quick AI** default model set in Settings - **Quicklinks**: Preserved favicons when “Open With” is a browser - **Root Search**: Localized application names should now correctly be searchable - **Root Search**: Prevented Quicklink arguments retaining focus after execution - **Settings**: Fixed the selection highlight being too faint for disabled commands - **Settings**: Fixed a crash when changing the interface size while the main window was hidden - **Settings**: Fixed command rows expanding and highlighting again after you'd already navigated to them - **Updater:** Fixed an issue where querying the updater's Login Items status could freeze Raycast.