# Gemini CLI settings (`/settings` command)

Control your Gemini CLI experience with the `/settings` command. The `/settings`
command opens a dialog to view and edit all your Gemini CLI settings, including
your UI experience, keybindings, and accessibility features.

Your Gemini CLI settings are stored in a `settings.json` file. In addition to
using the `/settings` command, you can also edit them in one of the following
locations:

- **User settings**: `~/.gemini/settings.json`
- **Workspace settings**: `your-project/.gemini/settings.json`

Note: Workspace settings override user settings.

## Settings reference

Here is a list of all the available settings, grouped by category and ordered as
they appear in the UI.

### General

| UI Label                        | Setting                            | Description                                                                  | Default     |
| ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| Preview Features (e.g., models) | `general.previewFeatures`          | Enable preview features (e.g., preview models).                              | `false`     |
| Vim Mode                        | `general.vimMode`                  | Enable Vim keybindings.                                                      | `false`     |
| Disable Auto Update             | `general.disableAutoUpdate`        | Disable automatic updates.                                                   | `false`     |
| Enable Prompt Completion        | `general.enablePromptCompletion`   | Enable AI-powered prompt completion suggestions while typing.                | `false`     |
| Debug Keystroke Logging         | `general.debugKeystrokeLogging`    | Enable debug logging of keystrokes to the console.                           | `false`     |
| Session Retention               | `general.sessionRetention`         | Settings for automatic session cleanup. This feature is disabled by default. | `undefined` |
| Enable Session Cleanup          | `general.sessionRetention.enabled` | Enable automatic session cleanup.                                            | `false`     |

### Output

| UI Label      | Setting         | Description                                            | Default |
| ------------- | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ------- |
| Output Format | `output.format` | The format of the CLI output. Can be `text` or `json`. | `text`  |

### UI

| UI Label                       | Setting                                  | Description                                                          | Default |
| ------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- |
| Hide Window Title              | `ui.hideWindowTitle`                     | Hide the window title bar.                                           | `false` |
| Show Status in Title           | `ui.showStatusInTitle`                   | Show Gemini CLI status and thoughts in the terminal window title.    | `false` |
| Hide Tips                      | `ui.hideTips`                            | Hide helpful tips in the UI.                                         | `false` |
| Hide Banner                    | `ui.hideBanner`                          | Hide the application banner.                                         | `false` |
| Hide Context Summary           | `ui.hideContextSummary`                  | Hide the context summary (GEMINI.md, MCP servers) above the input.   | `false` |
| Hide CWD                       | `ui.footer.hideCWD`                      | Hide the current working directory path in the footer.               | `false` |
| Hide Sandbox Status            | `ui.footer.hideSandboxStatus`            | Hide the sandbox status indicator in the footer.                     | `false` |
| Hide Model Info                | `ui.footer.hideModelInfo`                | Hide the model name and context usage in the footer.                 | `false` |
| Hide Context Window Percentage | `ui.footer.hideContextPercentage`        | Hides the context window remaining percentage.                       | `true`  |
| Hide Footer                    | `ui.hideFooter`                          | Hide the footer from the UI.                                         | `false` |
| Show Memory Usage              | `ui.showMemoryUsage`                     | Display memory usage information in the UI.                          | `false` |
| Show Line Numbers              | `ui.showLineNumbers`                     | Show line numbers in the chat.                                       | `false` |
| Show Citations                 | `ui.showCitations`                       | Show citations for generated text in the chat.                       | `false` |
| Use Full Width                 | `ui.useFullWidth`                        | Use the entire width of the terminal for output.                     | `true`  |
| Use Alternate Screen Buffer    | `ui.useAlternateBuffer`                  | Use an alternate screen buffer for the UI, preserving shell history. | `true`  |
| Disable Loading Phrases        | `ui.accessibility.disableLoadingPhrases` | Disable loading phrases for accessibility.                           | `false` |
| Screen Reader Mode             | `ui.accessibility.screenReader`          | Render output in plain-text to be more screen reader accessible.     | `false` |

### IDE

| UI Label | Setting       | Description                  | Default |
| -------- | ------------- | ---------------------------- | ------- |
| IDE Mode | `ide.enabled` | Enable IDE integration mode. | `false` |

### Model

| UI Label                | Setting                      | Description                                                                            | Default |
| ----------------------- | ---------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- |
| Max Session Turns       | `model.maxSessionTurns`      | Maximum number of user/model/tool turns to keep in a session. -1 means unlimited.      | `-1`    |
| Compression Threshold   | `model.compressionThreshold` | The fraction of context usage at which to trigger context compression (e.g. 0.2, 0.3). | `0.2`   |
| Skip Next Speaker Check | `model.skipNextSpeakerCheck` | Skip the next speaker check.                                                           | `true`  |

### Context

| UI Label                             | Setting                                           | Description                                                                                                                                     | Default |
| ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- |
| Memory Discovery Max Dirs            | `context.discoveryMaxDirs`                        | Maximum number of directories to search for memory.                                                                                             | `200`   |
| Load Memory From Include Directories | `context.loadMemoryFromIncludeDirectories`        | Controls how /memory refresh loads GEMINI.md files. When true, include directories are scanned; when false, only the current directory is used. | `false` |
| Respect .gitignore                   | `context.fileFiltering.respectGitIgnore`          | Respect .gitignore files when searching.                                                                                                        | `true`  |
| Respect .geminiignore                | `context.fileFiltering.respectGeminiIgnore`       | Respect .geminiignore files when searching.                                                                                                     | `true`  |
| Enable Recursive File Search         | `context.fileFiltering.enableRecursiveFileSearch` | Enable recursive file search functionality when completing @ references in the prompt.                                                          | `true`  |
| Disable Fuzzy Search                 | `context.fileFiltering.disableFuzzySearch`        | Disable fuzzy search when searching for files.                                                                                                  | `false` |

### Tools

| UI Label                         | Setting                              | Description                                                                                                     | Default |
| -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- |
| Enable Interactive Shell         | `tools.shell.enableInteractiveShell` | Use node-pty for an interactive shell experience. Fallback to child_process still applies.                      | `true`  |
| Show Color                       | `tools.shell.showColor`              | Show color in shell output.                                                                                     | `false` |
| Auto Accept                      | `tools.autoAccept`                   | Automatically accept and execute tool calls that are considered safe (e.g., read-only operations).              | `false` |
| Use Ripgrep                      | `tools.useRipgrep`                   | Use ripgrep for file content search instead of the fallback implementation. Provides faster search performance. | `true`  |
| Enable Tool Output Truncation    | `tools.enableToolOutputTruncation`   | Enable truncation of large tool outputs.                                                                        | `true`  |
| Tool Output Truncation Threshold | `tools.truncateToolOutputThreshold`  | Truncate tool output if it is larger than this many characters. Set to -1 to disable.                           | `10000` |
| Tool Output Truncation Lines     | `tools.truncateToolOutputLines`      | The number of lines to keep when truncating tool output.                                                        | `100`   |

### Security

| UI Label                      | Setting                                         | Description                                               | Default |
| ----------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ------- |
| Disable YOLO Mode             | `security.disableYoloMode`                      | Disable YOLO mode, even if enabled by a flag.             | `false` |
| Blocks extensions from Git    | `security.blockGitExtensions`                   | Blocks installing and loading extensions from Git.        | `false` |
| Folder Trust                  | `security.folderTrust.enabled`                  | Setting to track whether Folder trust is enabled.         | `false` |
| Allowed Environment Variables | `security.environmentVariableRedaction.allowed` | Environment variables to always allow (bypass redaction). | `[]`    |
| Blocked Environment Variables | `security.environmentVariableRedaction.blocked` | Environment variables to always redact.                   | `[]`    |

### Experimental

| UI Label                            | Setting                                                 | Description                                                  | Default |
| ----------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------- |
| Enable Codebase Investigator        | `experimental.codebaseInvestigatorSettings.enabled`     | Enable the Codebase Investigator agent.                      | `true`  |
| Codebase Investigator Max Num Turns | `experimental.codebaseInvestigatorSettings.maxNumTurns` | Maximum number of turns for the Codebase Investigator agent. | `10`    |
| Agent Skills                        | `experimental.skills`                                   | Enable Agent Skills (experimental).                          | `false` |
