Find your way around Settings

Settings has a few dozen pages, grouped in the column on the left. This page says what each one is for and which Guide page explains it, so you know where to look.

Looking for one setting, its default or what it does? The Settings explorer lists every setting, with a search box and a filter for each Settings page.

Find a setting fast#

1. 1

   Click Settings in the toolbar.

2. 2

   Type in Search settings... at the top, for example "dark" or "sound".

3. 3

   Click a result. Settings opens on the right page and briefly highlights the setting.

Many settings in this Guide appear as cards; read inside the app, a card opens its setting directly.

Home#

The row pinned above the groups in the desktop app. Settings opens here when Yardmaster starts; after you visit another page, it reopens there until you restart Yardmaster. A link to a specific setting always opens that setting. It lists Popular settings, what you Recently changed, everything Changed from default (each with a Reset button) and Browse all settings.

General#

Appearance#

Dark or light, looks, text size, side columns. See Change how Yardmaster looks and Arrange the window and text size.

System#

How Yardmaster starts and runs on your computer.

Toolbar#

Which buttons show along the top. See Find your way around the main window.

Keyboard Shortcuts#

See Use and change keyboard shortcuts.

Voice Control#

See Talk to your agents by voice.

Notifications#

Sounds, alerts, the spend and usage cards. See Choose how Yardmaster gets your attention.

Setup Wizards#

Run the first-start Setup Wizard again (Re-run Wizard), the Interactive Demo, and the guided tours (Take Tour). Desktop app only.

Accounts & AI#

Accounts#

Your Claude accounts and how sessions share them. See Connect your Claude account.

My API Keys#

Keys for other AI services. See Choose your AI engine.

AI Coach#

Settings for the AI Coaching feature.

Plain Speak#

See Read long agent replies in plain words.

Workspaces#

Shown to everyone who is signed in: the workspaces you belong to, and Create workspace. A workspace's admin also sees its members here. Yardmaster staff see this row as User Management. See Sign in to Yardmaster.

Sessions & Workflow#

Sessions#

How sessions run, including large-session limits. See Start and manage sessions and Keep long sessions affordable.

Workflow#

What happens around a session, such as Auto-Resume Sessions on Restart.

Agent Instructions#

Rules added to every session. See Keep your agent instructions in one place.

Tags#

See Label sessions with tags.

Inbox#

See See everything that needs you in the Inbox.

Automations#

See Act on messages with rules.

Code Review#

How changes are shown when you review a session's work.

Performance#

Settings that make Yardmaster lighter on a slower computer.

Optional Features#

Switches for features you can turn on or off, such as Agent Instructions Sync.

Git guardrails are here too. They are on at first and protect every agent Yardmaster runs: an agent can't commit or push to a protected branch such as main, edit files while a project sits on one, or throw away work with git stash. You can switch them to warn only, edit the protected branches, leave out a project, or pause them for a few minutes.

They cover Codex sessions too. Codex works in the project folder itself, so on a project sitting on main or master it can't edit files or commit until it makes its own worktree.

Connections#

These pages connect outside services.

Channels#

Sources that bring messages into your Inbox: SMS, Slack, RSS feeds, webhooks and Zapier, plus Canva.

Email & Summaries#

Email accounts and email summaries. See Get short summaries of long emails.

Google Workspace#

Gmail, Calendar and Drive. See Read and send email with Gmail and See your Google Calendar in Yardmaster.

Dropbox and OneDrive#

Connect your cloud file storage, each on its own page.

Access & Sharing#

Mobile Access#

See Answer your agents from your phone.

Sharing#

Share links and what they show.

SSH Remotes#

See Run a session on another computer.

CLI Control#

See Control Yardmaster from scripts (CLI API).

Deploy Profiles#

Where agents may publish your work.

PR Merge Queue#

See Merge pull requests with PR Merge Queue.

Team Corpus#

See Share what your agents learn with your team.

Personal Corpus#

See Let your agents remember how you work.

Tools & Maintenance#

Connected Tools#

See Install and update your tools.

Plugins#

See Add features with plugins.

OpenClaw#

Connect other AI providers through a gateway.

AutoHotKey (Windows only)#

See Edit your AutoHotkey script (Windows).

Lab#

Switches for Preview features that are still in development.

Backup & Restore#

Export or import your data. See Privacy and your data.

Diagnostics#

Logs, problem reports and usage records. See See which parts of Yardmaster you use.