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; continue by itself after the limit; hand tasks over to a free CLI or account at the limit; 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 — style “OpenCognit” (warm black, gold) or “Neutral” (graphite or white with a blue accent, plain for the workplace); light, dark or system; language German or English.
- Notifications — a notice when an agent waits for you, optionally with sound; short notices to your phone through ntfy; remote control from your phone (see Remote control).
- 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.
- Security — all protection switches in one place: guardrails on/off, check agent commands, snapshots before every agent round, test light, test guard (Off / Report / Strict) and “Threads: only ask for risky actions”. The top line tells you if anything is switched off.
- Guardrails — the rules, see below.
- 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
Title bar
OpenCognit draws its own title bar: minimize, maximize and close sit at the top right inside the app;
drag the window by the empty parts of the header. On Windows the Windows buttons sit there (with snap
layouts). If you prefer the system frame (e.g. with a tiling window manager), start OpenCognit with
OPENCOGNIT_SYSTEM_FRAME=1.