raycast

raycast is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from adriangrantdotorg/Raycast-Skill. It costs 197 tokens per session (9,963 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A development guide for Raycast Extensions, which are small React and Node programs that add commands to the Raycast launcher on macOS.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start an extension, update its package details and commands, run it locally with a build watcher, and improve its interface and workflows.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to create, modify, and troubleshoot extensions, including setup, local testing, forms, and successful-action behaviour.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to start an extension, update its package details and commands, run it locally with a build watcher, and improve its interface and workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adriangrantdotorg/raycast-skill/raycast
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add adriangrantdotorg/Raycast-Skill --skill raycast
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adriangrantdotorg/Raycast-Skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 197 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,963 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00197 $0.09963
Opus 5.5 $0.00079 $0.03985
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00039 $0.01993
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00996

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 650bb901bd69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

raycast scanned grade A with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

*Trigger:* you are about to write a Raycast prop, option, manifest key, or metadata key you have not checked in this session. *Discrimination:* the rules below are enough for workflow decisions; they are not enough for e

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

- **AppleScript & Keyboard Maestro**: prefer `runAppleScript` from `@raycast/utils`, passing values as an `args` array instead of splicing them into the script text (no quoting bugs). The script reads them with `on run a
skills/raycast/SKILL.md · 348 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 348 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Raycast Development

This skill defines the preferred workflow and best practices for building, modifying, and troubleshooting Raycast Extensions (React/Node) and Script Commands (shell scripts with @raycast.* metadata).

0. Reference files — read the one that matches the task

The sections below are the rules. The exact signatures and doc facts live in references/, distilled 09-24-26 from developers.raycast.com and manual.raycast.com (API 2.5.0, @raycast/utils 2.3.0):

📄 File Open it when you are…
references/platform.md editing package.json (commands, modes, interval, arguments, preferences, platforms), using LaunchProps / background refresh / deeplinks, running ray CLI commands, debugging, building AI tools / ai.yaml / evals
references/api-reference.md writing UI or calling @raycast/api: List, Grid, Form, Detail, Actions, MenuBarExtra, Toast/HUD/Alert, Clipboard, Cache, LocalStorage, Keyboard shortcuts, launchCommand, OAuth, AI.ask, WindowManagement, BrowserExtension
references/utils-hooks.md picking or configuring a @raycast/utils hook (usePromise, useCachedPromise, useFetch, useExec, useSQL, useForm, useFrecencySorting…), pagination, optimistic mutate, runAppleScript, OAuthService, and changelog / migration / ESM questions
references/script-commands-and-app.md writing a Script Command (every @raycast.* key, arguments, output per mode, exit codes), or using app features: aliases, hotkeys, Hyper Key, quicklinks, Dynamic Placeholders, raycast:// URLs, MCP, Raycast AI skills, logs

Trigger: you are about to write a Raycast prop, option, manifest key, or metadata key you have not checked in this session. Discrimination: the rules below are enough for workflow decisions; they are not enough for exact names and defaults (filtering, keepPreviousData, refreshTime…), which drift between API versions. Action: grep the matching reference file first. If it is missing or looks stale, ask the live docs: curl -s 'https://developers.raycast.com/readme.md?ask=<question>' (the answer comes back with excerpts), or grep https://developers.raycast.com/llms-full.txt (two parts, the second at /llms-full.txt/1) and https://manual.raycast.com/llms-full.txt. Then add what you learned to the reference file.

Read the full file on GitHub · 348 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago Changed · +294 lines · +138 tokens per session 650bb901bd69
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 54 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 949883a6dfa0

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raycast is a skill published in the GitHub repository adriangrantdotorg/Raycast-Skill (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 197 tokens to every session and 9,963 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (makes network calls, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.