Core Workspace
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Verified: October 2026
Settings, Preferences & Agent Configuration
Master ARMES User Settings across 14 workspace sections, the Command Center in-canvas settings tab, and granular per-agent Agent Settings.
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Overview: User Settings vs. Agent Settings
In ARMES, settings and customization are split into two distinct, purposeful domains:
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1. The Dual User Settings Experience
Depending on which surface you are currently working on, User Settings adapts ergonomically:
A. Standalone Page (/settings)
When browsing standalone pages (such as Chat, Context, Library, or Dashboard), clicking Settings in your top-right Profile Dropdown opens the dedicated full-page settings experience at /settings.
- Responsive Drawer: On mobile devices, tap the hamburger menu in the settings header to open the section drawer; on desktop, a fixed sidebar provides instant navigation between sections.
- Section Deep-Linking: You can bookmark or navigate directly to any section using URL query parameters:
https://armes.ai/settings?section=personalization https://armes.ai/settings?section=developer https://armes.ai/settings?section=instructions https://armes.ai/settings?section=voice https://armes.ai/settings?section=billing https://armes.ai/settings?section=referrals
B. Command Center In-Canvas Tab (user-settings)
When working inside the Command Center (/command), you never have to abandon your active conversations, open notes, or documents to adjust settings.
- Clicking your Profile Avatar (top right) → Settings instantly opens a singleton in-canvas tab titled Settings in the center panel alongside your chat and note tabs.
- The tab features an embedded split-view with a section selector on the left and full interactive controls on the right.
- You can switch between your active tasks and settings seamlessly without page reloads.
2. Comprehensive Guide to the 14 User Settings Sections
1. Account (/settings?section=account)
- Profile Avatar: Upload a custom profile picture, or select from one of five signature ARMES Robot Avatars.
- Animated Avatar Toggle: Enable dynamic micro-animations for your chosen robot avatar.
- Identity: Update your preferred display name and view your permanent user account ID.
2. People (/settings?section=people)
- Public Handle: Claim or update your unique
@handlefor human-to-human collaboration in ARMES. - Discoverability: Toggle whether teammates and collaborators can discover you in the People directory.
- Connections: View mutual connections, pending invites, and blocked users.
3. Appearance (/settings?section=appearance)
- Theme Palette: Switch between Light, Dark, and System mode (automatically syncs with OS dark-mode schedules).
- Visual Mode: Adjust background graphics and UI animation complexity:
- Minimal: Flat, static backgrounds engineered for maximum battery efficiency on laptops and mobile devices.
- Static: Elegant brand gradients and grid patterns with zero CPU/GPU overhead.
- Animated: Dynamic, hardware-accelerated particle engine with ambient atmospheric motion and quality tuning (High vs. Low).
- Chat Thinking Animation: Choose your preferred overlay animation displayed inside the chat composer while ARMES reasons and runs active tools. This setting is completely decoupled from your background visual mode, so you can pair a calm static background with high-fidelity vector thinking:
- ARMES Vector Orb (Default / Recommended): Pure SVG mathematical 3D projection with synaptic wandering and zero GPU battery penalty.
- Original (Classic): The classic ARMES branded pulsating halo loader in a compact footprint.
- 3D Quantum Core (WebGL): Dual spinning crystal core with counter-rotating rings and orbital particles in 3D space.
- 2D Synaptic Network (Canvas): Delicate drifting nodes, connecting dendrites, and firing electrical pulses.
- Includes an in-settings Live Chat Input Preview that renders your selection in real time without locking or navigating away from your workspace.
- Chat Bubble Themes: Personalize message bubble styling across your conversations (Midnight, Deep Space, Lavender, Emerald, Obsidian, etc.).
- App Icon (iOS): On Apple devices, switch between signature custom home screen icons (Original, Blue, Eco Green, Pro Pink, Ultra Gold).
4. Instructions (/settings?section=instructions)
- Project Scope Selector: Select which project lens you are currently configuring.
- Global Custom Instructions: Define persistent behavioral directives that apply to every agent when working in that project (e.g., formatting rules, coding languages, tone preferences, or client NDA constraints).
- Agent Instructions Accordion: Fine-tune custom instructions for individual installed agents within the selected project.
5. Personalization & Memory (/settings?section=personalization)
- Master Memory Toggle: Enable or disable long-term memory across your entire workspace with a single click.
- Identity Core: Edit your core persona attributes: Preferred Name, Role/Industry, 90-Day Goals, Communication Style, Constraints, and Hard Preferences.
- Memory Ledger: Inspect, search, filter, and delete individual atomic facts extracted from past conversations.
- "What Agents See" Preview: Verbatim, glass-box preview of the exact XML envelope injected into your agents' system prompts.
- Memory Episodes & Backfill: Review rolling conversation episode summaries or trigger background extraction on older chats.
6. Voice & Audio (/settings?section=voice)
- Neural Voice Selection: Choose your preferred text-to-speech voice model from our low-latency neural speech catalog.
- Audition Player: Test and preview voices with sample audio before selecting.
- Playback Speed: Adjust audio speech velocity between 0.75x and 1.5x speed.
- Auto-Read Responses: Automatically stream audio speech aloud upon response completion.
7. Billing & Usage (/settings?section=billing)
- Active Subscription: Review your current plan tier (Free, Eco, Pro, or Ultra) and next renewal date.
- Token Usage Meters: Monitor monthly token and compute consumption with real-time visual progress bars.
- Spend Budgets: Set custom monthly spend caps to prevent accidental billing overages.
- Credit Balance & Refills: Purchase one-time AI credit top-ups that never expire.
- Stripe Customer Portal: Access official tax invoices, receipts, and payment method management.
8. Referrals (/settings?section=referrals)
- Invite Link: Copy your personal referral link (
armes.ai/r/...) or share directly via email or social networks. - $10 Reward: Both you and your invited friend receive a $10 subscription credit upon their first paid invoice.
- Earnings Ledger: Track total clicks, signups, successful referrals, and credited dollar balances.
9. Email Preferences (/settings?section=email)
- Notification Toggles: Granular controls for system updates, security alerts, and platform newsletters.
- Email Deliverability Status: Verify email delivery health and bounce suppression state.
- 1-Click Unsubscribe: Instantly manage transactional vs. broadcast communications.
10. Integrations (/settings?section=integrations)
- Google Drive Connection: Authenticate with Google Drive OAuth to allow agents to search, read, and reference your Google Docs and Drive files.
- Sync Status: Monitor connection health, token freshness, and disconnect at any time.
11. Developer Platform (/settings?section=developer)
- Personal Access Tokens (PATs): Generate secure, scoped API tokens to interact with ARMES programmatically.
- Model Context Protocol (MCP): Connect external developer tools (such as Cursor, Claude Code, or local IDEs) into the ARMES unified context layer.
12. Security & Privacy (/settings?section=security)
- Password Management: Update your master login credentials with enforced complexity standards.
- Active Sessions: Review active login sessions and revoke unfamiliar devices.
- Zero Data Retention (ZDR): Review the contractual privacy policies guaranteeing your prompts are never stored by third-party model providers.
- Delete Account & Vault: Permanently erase all personal data, memories, notes, chats, and uploaded files in accordance with GDPR and CCPA right-to-be-forgotten standards.
13. Tours & Guides (/settings?section=tours)
- Welcome Journey Replay: Re-launch the initial 60-second onboarding walkthrough at any time.
- Feature Spotlights: Launch step-by-step interactive tours covering Auto Mode, Notes, and Multi-Agent consultation.
14. Legal & Compliance (/settings?section=legal)
- Transparent documentation of ARMES Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Subprocessors List, and DMCA contact details.
3. Agent Settings (Per-Agent Configuration)
While User Settings configures your account and global workspace, Agent Settings allows you to tailor the behavior, persona, intelligence routing, and tools of a single individual agent (e.g. ARMES GPT, Code Architect, or a custom specialist you built).
6 Cross-Platform Entry Points to Agent Settings
You can open Agent Settings from whichever screen you are actively working in:
In Command Center, opening Agent Settings creates a tab in your center canvas; on standalone pages, it navigates to /bot/[agentId]/settings.
The 7 Sections of Agent Settings
- General: Modify the agent's display name, role summary, discipline tags, and custom robot avatar icon.
- Instructions: Provide agent-specific custom instructions (e.g., "Always write tests using Vitest. Never write Python classes."). These rules are layered onto the agent's base instructions whenever you chat with them.
- Memory: Control whether this agent has access to your long-term memory ledger, project context notes, or persistent files.
- Modes: Set the agent's default routing behavior (Auto Mode for smart compute rightsizing, Eco Mode for high efficiency, or pin a frontier engine).
- Webhook (Custom Agents): For custom or external agents, configure the target HTTPS webhook URL, authentication headers, and streaming settings.
- Info: Review the agent's release version, publisher credentials, and verified capabilities.
- Danger Zone: Clear this agent's chat history across all threads or remove the agent from your active roster.