PromptLab
Raycast extension for creating context-aware AI commands
PromptLab launched on December 26, 2023 with 7 votes, #1,211 of 3,780 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
What it does
PromptLab is a Raycast extension for creating and sharing AI commands with prompts that utilize contextual placeholders such as {{selectedText}}, {{selectedFiles}}, or {{todayEvents}} to expand the capabilities of Raycast AI or any LLM with an API endpoint.
Create custom AI commands using powerful placeholders
PromptLab is a Raycast extension for creating and sharing powerful, contextually-aware AI commands using placeholders, action scripts, and more. PromptLab allows you to create custom AI commands with prompts that utilize contextual placeholders such as {{selectedText}} , {{todayEvents}} , or {{currentApplication}} to vastly expand the capabilities of Raycast AI. PromptLab can also extract information from selected files, if you choose, so that it can tell you about the subjects in an image, summarize a PDF, and more. PromptLab also supports "action scripts" -- AppleScripts which run with the AI's response as input, as well as experimental autonomous agent features that allow the AI to run…from raycast.com
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