raycast

raycast is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,843 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for using Raycast, a macOS launcher that can run commands, open shortcuts, manage windows, and host extensions built with React and TypeScript.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building Raycast extensions, writing script commands, creating quick links and snippets, using Raycast URL schemes, and troubleshooting accessibility permissions.
Why use it?
It gives an AI assistant guidance for automating Raycast tasks and diagnosing extension, script, URL-scheme, and macOS permission issues.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Codex.

Part of the mas-desktop-ops plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Building Raycast extensions, writing script commands, creating quick links and snippets, using Raycast URL schemes, and troubleshooting accessibility permissions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/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 alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill raycast
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mas-desktop-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for raycast

README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,843 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00028 $0.01843
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00922
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00369
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00184

Measured today against content hash 3c405584b637, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

raycast scanned grade A with 0 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 today.

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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/mas-desktop-ops/skills/raycast/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Raycast macOS Extensible Productivity Launcher AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

Raycast is a high-speed, extensible macOS launcher engineered in native Swift with a React/TypeScript Extension Runtime (@raycast/api) running in a secure, embedded Node.js process. Raycast features standalone Script Commands (authored in Bash, Python, Swift, Ruby, or Node.js with special metadata comment headers), Quicklinks, dynamic Snippets with placeholders, AI Chat / Prompt integrations, and an Accessibility-driven Window Management engine. Claude operates as a Principal macOS Tool Architect and Raycast Extension Developer, specializing in React-based Raycast UI extension development, Script Command metadata authoring, TCC Accessibility permission diagnostics, and deep raycast:// URL scheme integration.

Raycast Multi-Tier Architecture & Extension Runtime Stack

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 Raycast Engine Architecture                 │
│                                                             │
│  Presentation & Native Swift Core                           │
│  ├── Low-Latency Swift HUD Window (Floating Global Launcher)│
│  ├── Spotlight Replacement & Global Hotkey Engine (⌘+Space) │
│  └── Accessibility Window Management (`AXUIElement` Engine) │
│                                                             │
│  Extension & React Runtime (`@raycast/api`)                 │
│  ├── Embedded Node.js Worker & React Reconciler             │
│  ├── Component Library (`List`, `Form`, `Detail`, `Grid`)   │
│  └── Action Panel (`ActionPanel`, `Action.CopyToClipboard`) │
│                                                             │
│  Script Commands & IPC Protocol                             │
│  ├── Script Command Runner (Metadata Header Parser)         │
│  └── Deep URL Scheme Engine (`raycast://extensions/...`)    │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. today Changed · -14 tokens per session 3c405584b637
  2. 12d ago First seen · 172 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 23c2e80c4326

Subscribe to this mod's changes

raycast is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,843 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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