Configure AI Cockpit Reasoning for VS Code
Open AI Cockpit Reasoning: Settings, or type /settings in Chat, to configure the extension. Change a setting when you need a different default or recurring behavior; use the controls below the Chat prompt for choices that apply only to the active session.
Find the right tab
| What you want to change | Settings tab |
|---|---|
| Account, active organization, and budget | Profile |
| Agents, skills, MCP servers, and bundles to install | Marketplace |
| Default, small, subagent, and compaction models | Models |
| Direct model connections | Providers |
| Agents, MCP servers, rules, workflows, or skills | Agents |
| Recurring permission decisions and the session cost alert | Auto-Approve |
| Branch naming and worktree setup, when opened from Agent Manager | Agent Manager |
| Browser automation and web search | Web Tools |
| Workspace snapshots and automatic session cleanup | Checkpoints |
| Font size, tool and reasoning blocks, and execution diagnostics | Display |
| Sounds, VS Code notifications, and system notifications | Notifications |
| Compaction, project memory | Context |
| Generated commit messages | Commit Message |
| Codebase indexing and knowledge bases | Indexing |
| Features that are still experimental | Experimental |
| Sandbox limits for commands | Sandboxing |
| Interface language | Language |
| Reset, export, or import settings, and telemetry | About AI Cockpit |
Indexing and Sandboxing appear only when those capabilities are available in your environment.
Save or discard changes
When a setting changes, use the save bar to apply or discard it. If sessions are active, read the warning before saving configuration that could affect ongoing work.
Select Reload in Settings, type /reload in Chat, or run AI Cockpit: Reload Config and Skills after editing configuration files outside Settings.
Project and global configuration
Use Local Config to open the configuration file of the current project, and Global Config for the file that applies to every project. Keep team conventions in project configuration and personal defaults in global configuration.
Move or reset settings
In About AI Cockpit, use Settings Transfer to export your settings and import them in another VS Code installation. Reset All Settings restores the extension's own settings; settings shared with the CLI, such as agents and auto-approve rules, are kept.