script-commands VS extensions

Sure! Again, I use Raycast, along with it's Raycast AI[2] feature and it's snippets feature. And then for a bunch of other stuff, I have Raycast script commands[4] (mostly specially-formatted shell + Python scripts) that do API gluing to internal apps, such as our help desk and MDM systems, as well as Linux servers via SSH.

For help desk tickets, I have a script that pulls new tickets, reads in the information for each ticket, determines a likely response/resolution/followup questions ("I see you did not include an (asset tag|screenshot) with your ticket. Could you please add that?", "It looks like this knowledge base article might help. ").

I also use the Raycast AI commands "Improve Writing" and "Summarize" several times a day on emails, documentation, tickets, etc. Essentially, I select text in any window, hit a keyboard shortcut to launch that action and it quickly performs the action on the selected text. Super quick.

My goal is to automate anything I do >= once per day.

My tier 1 is Raycast here, but I had much of this on Alfred (what I used prior), much of this with formerly Albert and now ulauncher on my Linux box, and with the launcher that comes with Power Toys on Windows.

1. https://www.raycast.com/

2. https://manual.raycast.com/ai

3. https://manual.raycast.com/snippets

4. https://github.com/raycast/script-commands and https://manual.raycast.com/script-commands

A script can take up to 3 arguments. (see https://github.com/raycast/script-commands/blob/master/documentation/ARGUMENTS.md)

I only know the official one at https://github.com/raycast/script-commands

It is possible, although not that smooth. You have to add this script to your command scripts in Raycast. Then you can assign > as a shortcut and you'll be able to do what you want. The only difference is that you need to type >, then space, then command.

there's this script: https://github.com/raycast/script-commands/blob/master/commands/developer-utils/create-image-from-code.sh

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There's just one thing I can not do: write an email to a contact. In Alfred I could write e.g. "email tom" and it will auto suggest people from my contacts and it would open a new email to the selected contact. Is there something similar in Raycast? All I could find is an email script command (https://github.com/raycast/script-commands/blob/master/commands/system/new-email.sh) that opens a new email window, but it's not possible to select a contact, you have to enter the email address.

To add it to Raycast follow instructions detailed here: raycast/script-commands:.

Not sure if I'm missing something. The title says the app is open source, but checking GitHub, I see extensions and script-commands, and I don't think the "main" repo is there

I agree for 99% of extensions their model is amazing. And I wouldn't expect me to come up with a better one any time soon.

The problem is that I want to do more in my launcher. Two examples:

- I wasn't happy with the official bitwarden extension, because going through the clipboard and copy/pasting individual items felt cumbersome. They also only supported one vault even though I asked about this years ago [0]! In raycast I wrote my own bitwarden extension that hooked into Hammerspoon and used the AX spoon to autofill credentials. That felt very hacky though so in my own launcher I am using the accessibility API directly through swift-rs.

- I wanted to build my own keyboard centric matrix chat client into raycast. I got pretty far, but in the end I was just too limited by the available components. Also I discovered that once your extensions heap reaches 100 MiB, it just gets killed. That basically made it impossible to just load the matrix-sdk including crypto.

In the end I just didn't want to keep investing time in some proprietary software that doesn't allow me to do what I want to do :)

[0] https://github.com/raycast/extensions/issues/1544

Raycast creates an open a pull request in their repository, on your behalf!

Check the PR: https://github.com/raycast/extensions/pull/6648

This is the repo: https://github.com/raycast/extensions/tree/abdbd1f0a926fbe7cea5e96f0f2c62f502efa0f3/extensions/mozilla-firefox/

Raycast can do this via an extension: https://github.com/raycast/extensions/blob/c0832985249dcb02164ea6322ca0134ca093e711/extensions/openai-gpt3/

Audit their extensions? This is an Amphethamin extension. Please take a look at the list of dependencies from npm. How much time will it take to audit? https://github.com/raycast/extensions/blob/34c65c7f190ad172e46c75384600aa938f932e98/extensions/amphetamine/package-lock.json

This is how fancier automations like the Raycast extension (source) are built.