💻 Screen Awareness
By Steven Van ·
The best chats start with the right context.
Raycast announced 💻 Screen Awareness on August 19, 2026.
What changed
The best chats start with the right context. Screen Awareness brings context from your focused app or window into AI Chat or Quick AI, so you don’t have to copy text, attach screenshots, or explain what you’re looking at. Use the Send Focused Window to AI command, choose Screen Awareness from the @ menu, or simply ask “summarise this” or “reply to this”. The first time you use the command, a short onboarding guide helps you set a hotkey. Our team likes to double-tap the right Command key. ✨ New AI: Send Focused Window to AI command includes richer app and window context AI: New Ask Screen Awareness AI Extension to quickly give context to Raycast AI: Added compaction and context management support Quick AI: “Send Message” AI setting is now respected by Quick AI as well which allows submitting queries on Command Return Dictation: Added a way to import your vocabulary and hotkeys from other apps Dictation: Added a new “Add Word to Vocabulary” command to add a selected word or entered argument into your vocabulary Feedback: New Ask Feedback AI Extension to contact the Raycast team Hotkeys: Added support for chords using a modifier held on both sides of the keyboard (e.g. left ⌘ + right
