Redcast Quick AI
Ask from the palette, use web search, and let a native agent answer.
Quick AI is the chat inside the launcher palette. It is useful for a short question without opening the full AI Chat window.
Start a conversation
With AI enabled, type a question in the launcher and press Tab. The question starts a new conversation. You can also use the AI fallback below search results, or the configured Quick AI command.
Type follow-up messages in the palette's field and press Return. The header shows the model and reasoning choice. Its picker changes the model for subsequent messages.
Use ⌘K for New Chat, Stop Response, Copy Last Response, Chat History, attachment actions and AI Settings. A reply can continue after the palette closes.
Web search
⌘K → Web Search toggles the same setting used by the composer's tools menu. With a supported tool-calling API model, the chat can search and read returned pages. See web search for engines and limits.
Answer with an agent
In Settings → AI → Agents → Quick AI answers with, choose a native agent. New Quick AI conversations then use that agent's folder, instructions, skills, tools and permission rules on the chat's model. The agent's name appears above the chat.
⌘K → Answer with changes the choice for a conversation. ACP agents use the full AI Chat window instead of this Quick AI setting.
Use a simple task to confirm the agent is working in the right folder: “List the files at the top of this project and tell me which document introduces it.” The tool rows show what it read.
Bring in context
- Send to AI opens Quick AI with a selected clipboard entry, file or dictation ready.
- ⌘K → Attach Note… opens a note picker when Notes is enabled.
- Paste a supported file or image into the composer to stage it.
- Configure Screen Awareness to open captures in Quick AI.
An attachment is staged for a question; check it before you send. Text-file and image limits still apply, and a route that cannot accept an attachment refuses it.
Continue and revisit
Open Chat History from ⌘K to find saved conversations. Empty conversations are not saved. For folders, branches, the settings sidebar and bulk organization, open AI Chat.
If the answer needs more work, ask a follow-up with a concrete change. If a native agent is still running, a new message can be queued; Send Now (⌘Return) steers it at its next step. For other routes Send Now stops the current reply and sends immediately.