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The Store
Raycast ships some built-in extensions and points everyone else to the Store. You can search by name, command, keyword, or category. The manual says only extensions compatible with your operating system appear, and that installing one makes its commands available immediately. Raycast describes the catalog as thousands of extensions. That is the publisher's count, not a census run by RaycastWork.
The billing manual includes browsing and creating extensions with the Free plan. A Teams organization can add a private store. The Enterprise manual index includes an extension allow-list so an admin can block the public catalog. If a work account cannot install something, the allow-list is a plausible reason. This site cannot see your organization's policy.
What an extension is allowed to be
An extension can search another service, show a list, or open a form. AI Extensions go further: a paid AI chat can call a tool the extension exposes, such as the built-in Ask File Search command. You can disable those tools in settings. Installing an extension does not by itself enable AI. AI still requires a paid plan or the Pro trial.
Sign-in to Jira, GitHub, or any other service happens with that service. Raycast's FAQ says extensions talk to third parties with OAuth or a personal token and that credentials stay local. The same FAQ still describes Raycast as a Mac-only citizen in places, so the Mac keychain detail should not be copied onto Windows without checking the current manual. Do not send tokens to [email protected].
Building one
Raycast's developer documentation and its Windows product page say extensions are written with React and TypeScript. The API is intended to be cross-platform. Extensions that need native code depend on a port. If you are choosing a tool for a mixed Mac and Windows team, test the specific extension on both systems instead of trusting the store description alone.
Script commands are not extensions
A script command is a file on your computer. It is faster to create and harder to share safely. Mac and Windows do not share the same language templates. Cloud Sync will not move the file to another machine. Prefer a script you wrote, or one you have read, over a paste from a forum.
Editorial boundary
RaycastWork does not rank extensions, accept payment for placement, or verify that an extension is safe. A workflow on this site that says "install one extension you already trust" means exactly that. The absence of a warning about a named extension is not an approval.