Settings
What you can configure in OpenCognit.
Open the settings with Ctrl+,. Search every section at the top left.
- System — keep the computer awake while agents work; maximum number of parallel agents; check for updates automatically.
- Custom instructions — apply to all threads and the conductor, e.g. “Answer in English”, “Use pnpm”, “Never push without asking”.
- Appearance — light, dark or system; language German or English.
- Notifications — a notice when an agent waits for you, optionally with sound.
- Accounts — several accounts per CLI.
- Limit detection — text patterns OpenCognit uses to recognize a reached limit.
- Steering — when input is sent to a working agent.
- Terminal — buffer size per session.
- Guardrails — see below; plus “Threads: only ask for risky actions”, test light and snapshots before every agent round.
- Data — how long the local event log is kept; delete everything.
- License and About.
Guardrails
Rules every input to an agent is checked against (multi-line pastes line by line). Per rule choose:
- Block — not sent
- Approval — sent only after you confirm
- Warn — sent, and you get a notice