AutoHotkey doesn't do anything on its own; it needs a script to tell it what to do. A script is simply a plain text file with the .ahk filename extension containing instructions for the program, like a configuration file, but much more powerful. A script can do as little as performing a single action and then exiting, but most scripts define a number of hotkeys, with each hotkey followed by one or more actions to take when the hotkey is pressed.

自动热键本身不做任何事情;它需要一个脚本来告诉它该做什么。脚本只是一个文件名扩展名为.ahk的纯文本文件，其中包含程序的指令，类似于配置文件，但功能更强大。脚本可以只执行一个操作，然后退出，但是大多数脚本定义了许多热键，每个热键后面都有一个或多个操作，当热键被按下时要执行。