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Raycast extension

A small tool your teammates fire from anywhere on their Mac — a couple of keystrokes, no terminal, no browser tab. It lives in the launcher a lot of Mac power-users already keep one keystroke away, and they install it in one click — from the public Raycast Store (anyone) or a private store just for your org.

Reach for it when the people you're sharing with are on Macs that already run Raycast and you want a tool always within reach. Skip it when they're on Windows or Linux (Raycast is Mac-first — say so plainly), or they'd rather click a finished thing in a browser (that's a website).

Last verified: 2026-06-07 · Confidence: high on one-click install, the public-vs-org split, and the Store review step; Mac-only is the load-bearing caveat.

It allows you to

  • Hand over a keystroke, not a folder. They hit their hotkey, type a few letters, run it — nothing to copy, no terminal, no tab.
  • Install in one click. From the Store or your org's private store, it's a single Install button — then it's theirs to run forever. [confirmed]
  • Keep it always within reach. It sits in the launcher they already use dozens of times a day, over whatever they're working on.
  • Ship fixes once. Publish a new version; their next run picks it up — no re-sending. [confirmed]
  • Set who's in — the whole Mac-using internet (Store) or only your org (private store). Details: Who can get in.

Ideal for

  • A look-up command for your team — "pull this grantee's latest status" from the launcher, instead of opening a sheet and scrolling.
  • A quick text tool — clean this formatting, convert this list — run over whatever you've copied, no UI to build.
  • Search across your own notes — like the Obsidian extension in the public Store: type a few letters, jump to any note. The same shape works for an internal knowledge base.

Who can get in

  • Two reach levels, set at publish. List it on the public Store and anyone on a Mac can install it; publish to a private org store (Raycast for Teams) and only your org's members ever see it. [confirmed]
  • Public is open source. A Store listing puts your code in Raycast's public repo for anyone to read — don't ship secrets that way; use the org store for internal tools. [confirmed]
  • No named-people middle. Short of the org store, there's no "share with these three people" rung — it's public, your org, or local-only on your own Mac. [estimate]

Which rungs it can hold. The whole Mac-using internet (Store) or org-only (private store) — no just-you-shareable, no named-people. → Who can see it? [confirmed]

Handing data to the host. Raycast holds little — most of the tool runs on each person's own machine; the real exposure is your code, public or org-only by the choice above. → Can you trust the company? [confirmed]

What you do to set it up

  • Ask: tell Claude Code "build a Raycast extension that does X" — it scaffolds the project, writes the tool, and runs it live in Raycast for you to test, then publishes when you say go. Later versions: one sentence, ~0 effort.
  • One-time, in order:
    1. Set up Claude Code — writes and runs everything, ~10 min once.
    2. A free Raycast account, signed in — the one step nobody delegates: it's what publishing checks against. ~5 min once. [confirmed]
    3. For a public listing only: a GitHub account (~10 min once) plus the Store review — a human gate that takes days, not minutes. The org store skips both. → the fine print. [confirmed]

Full how-to — scaffold, test live, publish public or org — in Build and share a Raycast extension. Prefer to do it by hand? Same page has a no-agent path.

What the other person does

  • Install: find it in the Store (or your org store) and click Install — one click, no terminal, no account beyond their own Raycast. [confirmed]
  • Run it: their hotkey, type a few letters, go. It's in their launcher from then on.
  • Cost to them: a Mac with Raycast installed — one ~3 min download if they don't have it, then ~0. [estimate]
  • Get your updates: automatic — the next run picks up your latest published version. [confirmed]
  • Pay: nothing — Raycast and Store installs are free.

Other ways to share

  • Not all on Macs, or you want it to run anywhere? → a one-command tool — a cross-platform terminal command, where this is Mac-only.
  • A routine their agent should absorb, not a hotkey a person fires? → a Claude skill teaches their Claude the procedure.
  • They'd rather click a finished thing, no install? → deploy a website or a Claude Artifact — open in any browser, ~5 sec, no account.

Sources

Good to know

  • Mac-first — this is the headline caveat. A Windows beta is live as of 2026-06 and cross-platform extensions can run on both, but treat Mac as the default; nothing here helps a Linux recipient. [confirmed]
  • The public Store review is a real gate, days not minutes; the org store has no review. [confirmed] on the gate; [unclear] on timing.
  • Pricing. Raycast and public-Store publishing are free; the private org store is a paid Teams feature. [unclear]

Full dates and sources for all three → the fine print.