Manual Apps Settings

Settings

App-wide configuration, in six categories. Open it from the app rail or the menubar gear. Model configuration lives in the Models app.

Find things by searching

Press Ctrl+K / Cmd+K with Settings open. Type a keyword — "webhook", "tray", "MCP", "temperature", "memory" — and the results deep-link straight to the control, highlighting it when you land.

Search crosses app boundaries: a memory query opens Brain, a provider or sampler query opens the Models app. That is intentional, because those settings genuinely live there.

The map

General

Section	Contains
General	App updates and channel, desktop app and tray, launch at startup, network access, filesystem access, terminal behaviour and default shell, constrained tool calls, re-run setup
Notifications	Master toggle, per-category (chat, tasks, background jobs), sounds, sounds while watching the active chat
Audio	Input and output devices, echo cancellation, noise suppression, auto gain
About	Version and build info

Two settings here matter more than the rest:

• Filesystem access — workspace-only (default) or full disk. This is the containment boundary for every file and git tool. See Tools and permissions.
• Network access — loopback-only (default) or LAN. Changing it needs a restart. See Use Minnow from another device.

Apps

Apps lists what is installed. Every shipped app is core, so there is nothing to disable and you will see a "Coming soon" placeholder where optional apps will appear.

Issues is the taxonomy editor for the tracker: types (icons and colors), statuses with workflow roles and board flags, and priorities.

Appearance

Chat view selects Compact (expandable working transcript with a separate final answer) or Full (every step stays visible; tool calls and thoughts stay collapsed until expanded). Changes apply immediately and persist across restarts.

Theme family and mode — 16 themes in total, eight families each with a dark and a light variant — plus wallpaper, a Google Fonts catalog for UI and monospace (plus optional uploads), and custom accent colours. Web fonts load only for the pair you pick; System UI uses the fonts already on the machine.

Agents

Section	Contains
Agents	Shared system prompt profiles (Full / Lite / custom) with a live token estimate, the four composer modes, work agents, sub-agent types, context policy, setup profile export and import
Rules	Standing instructions injected into every prompt, organised into groups. Empty groups can be deleted; groups that still have rules cannot
Agent packs	Download a template or the built-in pack, upload a zip, manage installed packs
Autopilot	Defaults for orchestrate boards: Running or Stopped start, git worktree isolation (not host containment), concurrency, planner model, retries, self-heal, infra provisioning
Watchdog	Generation limits while streaming. Sub-agent crash/timeout retry is the journal reconcile — wall-clock lives under Sub-agents

Watchdog is the setting to reach for when a generation hangs and sits there forever.

Generation timeouts cover the model stream itself. The idle timeout resets whenever new tokens arrive, so it catches a genuinely stalled stream without cutting off a slow one. Either limit can be set to 0 to turn it off, or use Enable generation timeouts.

Sub-agents do not use a heartbeat or stall supervisor. A crashed or timed-out sub-agent is retried from the journal. Wall-clock for one attempt is Settings → Agents → Sub-agents (default timeout and per-type timeout).

Setting	Default	What it does
Idle timeout	60 min	How long the model may stop sending stream data before the generation is aborted (resets on each chunk)
Max duration	240 min	Hard wall-clock cap on a single generation

Integrations

Section	Contains
Search	Web search provider, fallback chain, Brave and Tavily keys
Servers	Managed local servers — SearXNG and llama-cpp — enable, auto-start, port
Tools	The full tool catalog with Off/Ask/Full per tool, grouped by category, plus bulk actions and the result cache
Skills	Enable or disable skills, author your own, and the Skills Library for third-party packs
Browser	Automation allowlist, navigation permission, tab restore, DevTools dock
MCP servers	Model Context Protocol servers
Language servers	LSP configuration and diagnostics
Editor	Ghost text, inline completion, context sources, caching
External	Outgoing webhooks with HMAC signing

Advanced

Health & diagnostics — subsystem probes, grouped errors, a local log tail, Copy report for a redacted summary, and the toggle for filing renderer errors as issues. Nothing is sent off-device.

Board testing — a manual workflow for orchestrate boards: an in-process fake model, seeded test boards, and board-log validation. For development and debugging, not daily use.

Where settings are stored

In your Minnow home as separate files — config.json, tools.json, search.json, rules.json, skills.json, and others. Secrets are encrypted; the rest is plain JSON you could read in an editor, though Settings normalizes on load and hand-editing is a recovery tool, not a workflow.

See Where your data lives.

Related

• Tools and permissions
• Context, memory, and rules
• Integrations
• Agents, sub-agents, and packs