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PowerToys Preview Adds Phi Silica, More AI Controls
Microsoft’s PowerToys v0.101.2211.0 preview adds an on-device Phi Silica provider to Advanced Paste, alongside per-action prompts, provider selection, and custom actions. The build also improves Command Palette, Mouse Jump, settings, window management, and preview-release controls.
// ANALYSIS
PowerToys is becoming a practical bridge between Windows utilities and local AI, with Phi Silica bringing Microsoft’s on-device model directly into everyday clipboard workflows.
- –Phi Silica gives Advanced Paste a Microsoft-native local inference option without requiring a cloud API.
- –Per-action prompts and provider selection make AI paste workflows more reusable and configurable.
- –Command Palette receives meaningful memory, icon-loading, performance-monitoring, and extension-management improvements.
- –The new update-channel selector makes it easier to separate stable users from Insider and preview testing.
- –As a preview build, hardware compatibility and reliability should be validated before broad deployment.
// TAGS
powertoysllmedge-ailocal-firstdevtoolopen-source
DISCOVERED
1h ago
2026-08-12
PUBLISHED
2h ago
2026-08-12
RELEVANCE
8/ 10
AUTHOR
NeowinFeed