{
  "id": 681851,
  "title": "Raycast adds a new way to ask AI about whatever is on your screen",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/raycast-adds-a-new-way-to-ask-ai-about-whatever-is-on-your-screen",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-12T17:12:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "9to5Mac",
    "slug": "9to5mac",
    "url": "https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/12/raycast-adds-a-new-way-to-ask-ai-about-whatever-is-on-your-screen/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Raycast has introduced a new feature called Screen Awareness that allows users to access context from their active app or window directly within AI Chat. This eliminates the need for users to copy and paste text, upload screenshots, or explain the context of their work before asking for assistance. The feature provides Raycast AI with direct access to the content of the currently focused window, making it easier for users to get help with their tasks.\n\nTo use Screen Awareness, users can select the \"Send Focused Window to AI\" command from the @ menu, choose the Screen Awareness option, or simply ask questions like \"summarize this\" or \"reply to this.\" When activated, the context sent to Raycast AI includes app and window details, selected text, the focused control, and a screenshot of the focused window. On Mac, users can also include information about selected files or folders when triggering the feature from Finder. Raycast's Browser Companion can pull in webpage details and content beyond what is currently visible onscreen.\n\nUsers can set up a hotkey to easily trigger Screen Awareness through a short onboarding guide that appears the first time they use the command. Raycast encourages users to \"double-tap the right Command key\" for this purpose. Additionally, keyboard shortcuts are available for related commands such as \"Send Selected Text to AI,\" \"Send Screen Area to AI,\" and \"Send Screen to AI.\"\n\nOther new features included in Raycast v0.71 are an AI extension for sending the focused window to AI, a new \"Ask Screen Awareness AI\" extension for quickly providing context to Raycast AI, compaction and context management support for Quick AI, and the ability to respect the \"Send Message\" AI setting in Quick AI. Dictation has also been enhanced with the ability to import vocabulary and hotkeys from other apps, and a new \"Add Word to Vocabulary\" command to add selected words or entered arguments to the user's vocabulary. Feedback can now be provided through the new \"Ask Feedback AI Extension.\"\n\nTo further customize the user experience, Raycast has added support for hotkey chords using a modifier key held on both sides of the keyboard, such as left ⌘ + right ⌘. The hotkey recorder allows users to record and display their chosen hotkeys.\n\nFor more information about Raycast's latest update, users can visit the provided link. Additionally, interested readers can watch 9to5Mac on YouTube for more Apple news.",
  "summary": "Raycast has a new feature called Screen Awareness, which lets users bring context from their active app or window directly into AI Chat. Here are the details.",
  "key_points": [
    "Raycast introduces Screen Awareness feature",
    "Users can access context from active app or window",
    "Simplifies asking AI for assistance"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}