Settings reference
Every setting in Else, grouped as the product groups them — what each one does, its default, and how far it reaches.
Settings holds twelve controls in three groups. Everything here belongs to your account, not to a device or a chat: change it in one browser and it is changed everywhere you sign in. Changes save the moment you make them, and take effect on the next run rather than retroactively.
The per-run controls — what a single run may use, its spend limit, how much it may do unattended — are not in Settings at all. They live in the This run panel above the composer. See Add-ons and Spending limits.
“Your account and how you sign in.”
| Setting | What it does | Default | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shows the address you signed in with, and that it is verified. The Change button is deliberately inactive — your address is managed where you sign in, not here | your sign-in address | account | |
| Sign-in method | Shows how you sign in. Also managed at your sign-in provider rather than here | — | account |
| Sign out | Ends your session on this device only. Other devices stay signed in | — | this device |
How it works
Section titled “How it works”“Which engine runs your work, what it may spend, and when it tells you.”
| Setting | What it does | Default | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engine | Your standing engine choice: Auto, Fast, Smart or Max. A new chat takes a copy of this when it is created; existing chats keep whatever they already have. The engine menu in the composer writes the same value — one setting, two doors. (The grey line beneath the row always describes Auto, whichever option is selected; read the option, not the line) | Auto | new chats |
| Set an engine per speed tier | A collapsed group holding the three rows below. The note beside it reads All on defaults, or how many you have changed | All on defaults | — |
| Fast engine / Smart engine / Max engine | Points that tier at a specific model instead of its factory default. Each row shows Default or the model’s name, with Change to pick one and Reset to default once you have | Default | every run, including Auto |
| Reset all tier engines | Appears only once at least one tier is changed. Reset all returns all three to their factory defaults | — | account |
| Ask before spending more than | The spend limit given to a task you hand off from the Tasks screen when you don’t set one yourself. Offered as four presets: $0.10, $0.50, $1.00, $5.00 | $0.50 | new handed-off tasks |
| Email me when a task finishes | Recorded on your account. No email is sent today — the preference is stored, not yet acted on. Check the Tasks screen for finished work | on | account |
| Apps | A link, not a setting. Open goes to the Apps screen | — | — |
| Things you taught it | A link, not a setting. Open goes to the Assistants screen | — | — |
Two notes before you touch this group.
The tier rows reach further than they look. Repointing Max changes every run that lands on Max — including runs Auto sent there. Changing what a tier runs is the page on whether you should.
“Ask before spending more than” is a different number from the spend limit in the composer, and it is the one that actually does something. This preset is the limit given to a task you hand off from the Tasks screen without naming one, and it is read. The composer’s field is read on work you hand off — but on a single message in a chat, nothing on our side reads it, and it resets to $0.15 on every reload and in every new chat. What ends a runaway single message is a fixed per-turn ceiling you cannot see or set. Both of those are covered honestly in Why it cost that much and Spending limits.
Money and data
Section titled “Money and data”“What you have spent, and what happens to what you put in.”
| Setting | What it does | Default | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallet | A link, not a setting. Open goes to your balance and top-ups | — | — |
| Help improve the product using my tasks | Records your consent to have your tasks used to improve the product. It is off unless you turn it on | off | account |
| Download my data | Export downloads your assistants, tasks and settings as a JSON file, immediately. Nothing is emailed and there is no queue | — | account |
Finding a setting, and what isn’t here
Section titled “Finding a setting, and what isn’t here”The rail on the left has a search box matching both group names and individual setting names — typing spend finds Ask before spending more than without your having to guess which group holds it. When nothing matches it says so rather than showing an empty pane.
What Settings deliberately does not hold: theme, language or notification preferences (they don’t exist — don’t go looking); billing controls, which live on the Wallet screen behind the link above, with individual receipts on each run (Reading a receipt); and per-run controls — spend limit, what a run may use, how much it may do unattended — which are per-run by design so that narrowing one job never quietly narrows the next.