Settings (⌘,)
⌘, opens Settings from anywhere — including while the editor has focus, since Monaco has
no claim on that shortcut. Esc or clicking outside closes it.
Everything here was previously reachable only as a command-palette toggle. Those palette entries still work; they now change the same state.
Appearance
| Setting | Notes |
|---|---|
| Theme | Dark or light. Applies to the UI and the terminal palette. |
| Terminal font size | 8–28px, shared by every pane. Same as ⌘+ / ⌘− / ⌘0 in a terminal. |
Terminal
| Setting | Notes |
|---|---|
| Shell integration (zsh) | Real commands, exit codes, and durations instead of guessed process names. Affects new terminals — see Terminals. |
| Save scrollback across restarts | Persists each pane's recent output. Stored in localStorage as plain text on disk; credential-shaped output is masked first, but that is a mitigation, not a guarantee. Turn it off for a pane that will show secrets. See Persistence. |
| Notify when a background command finishes | System notification for long runs in unfocused tabs — see Terminals. |
Projects
Scan folder — the directory Conductor scans for projects (default ~/Code). Changing it
rescans immediately. See Projects & sidebar.
AI assistance
This section deliberately contains no providers, models, or API keys, and it says so rather than leaving an unexplained gap.
Conductor is a host: it starts processes and renders their output. All reasoning happens in
the external Elyra CLI, which already owns providers, models,
credentials, and prompts — configured once, in one place, and reusable outside Conductor.
Configure them with elyra config.
Keeping credentials out of this app is also what lets Conductor render untrusted text —
filenames, git output, scrollback — without a key being worth stealing. The hardening in
0.9.1 (CSP, DOMPurify, redaction) was written on the assumption that a sanitiser bypass
gets an attacker nothing valuable; storing keys in the webview's localStorage would
retroactively invalidate it.
What the section does show is the resolved path to the elyra binary and its version.
That is read-only on purpose: a configurable path is a setting that can be wrong, and
find_bin plus the login-shell PATH already handle the case it would exist to fix (a
GUI-launched app whose PATH lacks nvm/volta).
Terminal help itself lives at ⌘↵ in any pane — see
Ask about this terminal.
Updates
The version you are running, a Check now button, and the answer inline: You're on the latest version with when that was checked, or the version that is available with What's new (the release notes on GitHub) and Install & restart. Conductor also checks silently on launch. Either way an update is downloaded only when you ask, and installed only after its signature verifies against the key built into the app — see Releasing & auto-update.
Where settings are stored
In localStorage, alongside session and workspace state. See
State & persistence.
Related
- Keyboard shortcuts — every shortcut in one table.
- Architecture & boundaries — why there is no AI configuration here.
- Command palette — the same toggles, reachable with
⌘K.