# Raycast Windows 2.2: 🦙 Bring Your Own Model

URL: https://www.raycast.com/changelog/windows/2-2
Released: 2026-09-08

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Bring Your Own Model brings three familiar ways to use your preferred AI models back to Raycast v2. Connect any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with [Custom Providers](https://manual.raycast.com/ai/custom-providers), run models through Ollama with [Local Models](https://manual.raycast.com/ai/local-models), or [add your OpenRouter API key](https://manual.raycast.com/ai/bring-your-own-keys) to choose from its catalog. Once configured, your models are available across Raycast AI alongside Raycast’s built-in options.


In v2, Custom Providers, Local Models, and Bring Your Own Key require a Raycast Pro subscription. We know this is a meaningful change compared to v1 and want to be upfront about it. You can read more about our thinking and where we’re heading on the [BYOAI article in the Manual](https://manual.raycast.com/ai/byoai).


## ✨ New

- **AI**: Added support OpenAI-compatible custom providers, local models via Ollama, and OpenRouter API keys, using their models across Raycast AI
- **Quick AI**: Added a Paste Formatted Response action
- **Window Management**: Added _Resize Window_ and _Move Window_ commands that take exact pixel dimensions and coordinates as arguments
- **Window Management**: Added _Create Layout From Current Windows_ command allowing for quick capturing custom layouts from the windows currently on screen. The layout editor can also add any visible window, and a layout can place several windows of the same app
- **Window Management**: Apps launched by a custom layout can now be given command-line arguments

## 💎 Improvements

- **AI**: Added basic support for right-to-left text
- **AI Settings**: Enabled Ask Questions and Collapse Long Messages by default and removed their settings
- **Window Management**: Applying a custom layout now forms a native snap group, so arranged windows keep Windows' joint-resize dividers and Snap Assist no longer gets in the way
- **Root Search**: Apps can now be found by their executable name or execution alias (e.g. "devenv" finds Visual Studio), and apps sharing a name are disambiguated in search and app pickers
- **File Search**: Deep directories no longer outrank shallower or more recent files
- **Run**: Added `Run in Shell` and `Run in Shell as Administrator` actions, plus a Shell preference in Run settings, so commands can run in your shell of choice with the terminal left open
- **Run**: Searching Run Commands now matches the command text itself, not just its name, so you can find a saved command by what it actually does
- **System**: Added an `Automatically Show the Taskbar` setting so an auto-hidden Windows taskbar reveals itself whenever Raycast is open

## 🐞 Fixes

- **Applications**: Fixed browser-profile app entries acting on windows that belong to other profiles
- **Clipboard**: Fixed files copied to the clipboard (e.g. by _Capture Window_) not pasting into apps that expect an image
- **Dictation**: Fixed an issue where dictated text could be submitted before the target app had finished receiving it, cutting off part of the transcription.
- **Extensions**: Fixed `Grid` pagination on fractional display scaling, tooltips on `List` and `Grid` item icons and accessories, `Form` item info text, `Alert` icons, and checkbox preference grouping in Settings
- **File Search:** Fixed a race condition that could cause the index to remain incomplete
- **File Search:** Recent files now populate during indexing
- **Quick AI**: Fixed launches from Root Search not applying the current Quick AI defaults in some situations
- **Root Search**: Recent files should now be consistent with File Search
- **Settings**: Fixed opening a setting closing the already-open Settings window instead of focusing it
- **Window Management**: Fixed maximized and minimized windows being placed on the wrong monitor when applying a layout