User Settings

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Purpose

Settings allow users to tailor the development environment to their individual preferences. They help by providing:

• Centralized Control – All key configuration options are available in one place.
• Personalization – Customize features such as agents, autocomplete, and instructions to fit your workflow.
• Usage Monitoring – Track daily costs and token usage to stay within budget.
• Compliance & Transparency – Access legal policies, agreements, and telemetry settings for clarity.
• Help & Support – Quickly reach documentation, tutorials, and support tickets when needed.

When to Use

• You want consistent behavior across projects via explicit settings.
• You need to enable agents, inject instructions, or tune request limits.
• You monitor usage/costs or manage credits and subscriptions.
• You prefer to adjust autocomplete, indexing, or telemetry policies.

How to Access User Settings

The User Settings page can be accessed in three ways:

1. From the Account

• Click the Code Studio Account icon.

• The Settings page will open.

2. From the Toggle Sidebar

• Click the gear icon on the left sidebar of the Code Studio window.
• Select Code Studio Settings from the menu.

• The Settings page will open.

3. From the Chat Window

• Navigate to the Code Studio Chat Window.
• Click the gear icon located at the top right corner.
• Select Open Settings.

• The settings page will open.

Settings Categories

The following settings are available on the User Settings page.

Account

Manage Account

• Monitor your LLM usage and manage your account.

Note: You can track daily costs and token usage by applying filters in your Dashboard. This helps you stay on budget and manage usage effectively.

Billing & Subscriptions

• Manage billing and view pricing details.

Note: Billing & Subscriptions is only accessible to admins.

Email

• Sign in or sign out of your account.

Credits

• View your current balance.
• Purchase credit based on your budget and requirements.
• Access pricing details.

Note: The Credits section is accessible only to admins.

Agents

Agent Enabled

• Enables agent mode, which can be activated via the dropdown in the chat box.
• Default: Enabled

Agent Max Requests

• Sets the maximum number of requests per turn when using an agent. If the limit is reached, you’ll be asked to confirm to continue.
• Default: 25

Use AGENTS.md File

• Decide whether the instructions from the AGENTS.md file in your workspace are added to every chat request.
• Default: Enabled

Agent File Locations

• Specify locations of agent files (*.agents.md). Relative paths are resolved from the root folder of your workspace.
• Default: .codestudio/agents .github/agents .claude/agents ~/.claude/agents ~/.copilot/agents ~/.codestudio/agents

Use Chat Hooks

• Controls whether chat hooks are executed at strategic points during an agent’s workflow. Hooks are loaded from the files configured in Hook File Locations.
• Default: Enabled

Model

Inline Chat Default Model

• Select the default language model to use for inline chat from the available models.
• Default: GPT-5 mini

Instructions & Skills

Use codestudio-instructions.md File

• Controls whether instructions from .codestudio/codestudio-instructions.md are added to Code Studio requests.
• Default: Enabled

Note: Keep your instructions short and precise. Poor instructions can degrade Code Studio quality and performance.

Instruction File Locations

• Specify locations of instruction files (*.instructions.md) that can be attached in chat sessions.
• Default: .codestudio/instructions .github/instructions .claude/rules ~/.claude/rules ~/.copilot/instructions ~/.codestudio/instructions

Use Agent Skills

• Controls whether skills are provided as specialized capabilities to the chat requests. The language model can load these skills on-demand if the read tool is available.
• Default: Enabled

Skill File Locations

• Each path should contain skill subfolders with SKILL.md files (e.g., add my-skills if you have my-skills/skilla/SKILL.md). Relative paths are resolved from the root folder(s) of your workspace.
• Default: .codestudio/skills .agents/skills .claude/skills ~/.codestudio/skills ~/.agents/skills ~/.claude/skills ~/.copilot/skills

Autocomplete

• When enabled, Code Studio provides inline code suggestions across all supported languages.
• Default: Enabled

Indexing

• When enabled, Code Studio will start an indexing process to scan and embed workspace files for accurate search results.

Mcp

MCP Access

• Controls access to installed Model Context Protocol servers.
• Default: all

Telemetry

• When enabled, Code Studio collects anonymous telemetry data to improve the product.
• Default: Enabled

Help & Support

• Documentation
  Access the official Syncfusion Code Studio documentation for configuration guidance and usage instructions.

• Have an Issue?
  If you encounter any problems, you can easily reach out to our support team at support.syncfusion.com.

• Legal Center
  Review our transparent legal policies and agreements in the Legal Center. This ensures you fully understand and comply with Syncfusion’s terms and conditions.