> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.quadrillion.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# AI Assistant Settings

> Configure models, research style, rules, skills, and agent behavior.

AI Assistant settings control how Qualia's AI behaves — from model selection to autonomy levels.

## Web search

Enable or disable web search. It works with every provider:

* **Enabled**: AI can look up documentation and references
* **Disabled**: AI works only with local context

Web search is useful for staying current with APIs and best practices.

## New agents

Settings for how agents are created and configured.

### Default model for agent-created agents

When an agent creates parallel agents, this model is used:

* Consider using a faster, cheaper model for parallel work
* Parallel agents often handle focused, bounded tasks

### Default model for user-created agents

When you start a new chat or agent, this model is used:

* Your primary model for direct interaction
* Usually your most capable model

### Model favorites

Star models in the picker to favorite them:

* Favorites appear at the first in the model list
* Drag to reorder favorites
* Quick access to your most-used models

### New agents require user confirmation

Control whether agent creation needs approval:

* **Enabled**: You approve each new agent before it starts
* **Disabled**: Agents start immediately

Pending agents show in the Agents sidebar when confirmation is required.

## Research style

Default curiosity, independence, and parallelism for new agents.

### Curiosity

How much the agent explores beyond your immediate request:

| Level      | Behavior                                   |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| **Low**    | Stays focused on exactly what you asked    |
| **Medium** | Explores related areas when relevant       |
| **High**   | Actively investigates tangential questions |

### Independence

How much the agent assumes versus asks:

| Level      | Behavior                                             |
| ---------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| **Low**    | Asks for confirmation frequently                     |
| **Medium** | Makes routine decisions, asks about significant ones |
| **High**   | Assumes most things, asks only about major choices   |

### Parallelism

How much the agent splits work across additional agents:

| Level      | Behavior                                                |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Low**    | Usually keeps work in one agent                         |
| **Medium** | Delegates independent work when it is useful            |
| **High**   | Proactively splits suitable work across multiple agents |

### Autonomous Mode

A separate toggle that supersedes curiosity, independence, and parallelism. When on, the agent runs fully autonomously — posting to Slack instead of asking.

<Info>
  Autonomous Mode requires Slack to be configured. See [Autonomous Mode](/autonomous-mode) for details.
</Info>

### Per-session overrides

These settings are defaults. You can adjust curiosity, independence, and parallelism for individual chat sessions without changing the global settings.

## Rules

Persistent instructions that guide AI behavior. See [Rules](/rules) for full documentation.

In Settings, you can:

* **Create rules**: Add new rule files
* **Edit rules**: Modify existing rules
* **Import rules**: From Cursor or Claude Code
* **Reveal folder**: Open rules directory in file manager

## Skills

Reusable workflows the AI can invoke. See [Skills](/skills) for full documentation.

In Settings, you can:

* **Create skills**: Add new skill files
* **Edit skills**: Modify existing skills
* **Toggle auto-invoke**: Control whether agents can trigger skills automatically
* **Import skills**: From Cursor or Claude Code

## Bash command allowlist

Commands you've approved with "Run & allow" appear here:

* Approved commands run without confirmation in future
* Remove commands to require confirmation again
* Platform-specific (macOS, Linux, Windows): on Windows, PowerShell commands are
  parsed and allowlisted just like POSIX shell commands elsewhere. Prefer
  PowerShell-shaped commands such as `Get-ChildItem -Recurse`, `Get-Content`,
  `Remove-Item`, and `rg`.
* Some commands always ask for confirmation and can never be added, because
  approving one would approve everything it can run: shells and script hosts
  (`bash`, `powershell`, `pwsh`, `cmd`), wrappers (`sudo`, `env`, `wsl`), and
  process launchers (`Start-Process`). Aliases are resolved first, so `start`
  is treated as `Start-Process`. This includes running a script through a
  host, so `powershell -File build.ps1` asks every time — the host can run any
  script you point it at, and its switches can be abbreviated, so there is no
  way to approve one form without approving the rest.
* Interpreters (`python`, `node`, `perl`, `ruby`) are the one exception: they
  can be added, but their inline-script switch stays blocked, so `python
  script.py` runs without confirmation while `python -c "..."` still asks.

## Related settings

* [Appearance settings](/settings/appearance) for chat display options
* [Autonomous mode](/autonomous-mode) for fully autonomous agents
* [MCP Integrations](/mcp-integrations) for external tools