Settings

Use the Settings page to configure Glean Tau for your account and your device. It controls the app language, how much the agent can do without asking, appearance, shortcuts, local storage, and which extensions are on.

Open Settings from the Glean Tau sidebar. The left navigation groups pages under Setup, Preferences, and Resources. Use the search box at the top of the Settings page to search for page names, descriptions, and configuration labels.

Settings apply to the Glean Tau app on your computer. However, your organization sets some values that you can't change locally. These values show a Managed by your organization badge. For what your admin controls, see Administer Glean Tau.

Setup

The Setup group covers the app, models, extensions, imports, integrations, and what the agent can access.

General

Application basics and account details:

• Language used by Glean Tau
• Account, including sign-in details and Logout
• App setup, including:
  • Release channel. Early access gets more frequent releases, and Stable follows the latest Early access release. Switching channels checks for an update right away. See Keep Glean Tau up to date.
  • Launch at login, Prevent app suspension, and Prevent display sleep
  • Generate chat titles with AI, and Chat title style for new chats: Sentence case, 3–8 words or Lowercase, 2–3 words. The style is available only while AI titles are on.
• Notifications, where you choose when Glean Tau notifies you about Finished chats (Never, When unfocused, or Always), Permission requests, and Clarifying questions. On macOS, turn on App icon badge to show a badge on the app icon for finished chats and chats waiting for input. It's off by default, and it needs notifications and badges allowed for Glean Tau in macOS System Settings
• Easter eggs, which show playful surprises as you work

See the following for details on App setup:

A long agent run can stop early if your operating system suspends the app or the display sleeps. Two App setup settings prevent that:

• Prevent app suspension keeps Glean Tau active for background work
• Prevent display sleep also keeps the display awake, which uses more battery

Both stay on until you turn them off or quit Glean Tau. They don't turn off automatically when the task finishes, so turn them off when you no longer need them.

Models

Under New chats, choose the Default model and its reasoning effort, and whether to Start new chats with the Default model or the Last used model.

Under Your model list, choose which of the models your organization makes available appear in model pickers. Search the list, filter by All models, Enabled, or Hidden, and turn off a model's switch to hide it from model pickers. Hidden models still work in chats that already use them. You can't hide your default model, and at least one model must stay visible.

See Choose a model and reasoning level.

Extensions

Turn features on or off and open each feature's own settings.

See Extensions for the full list, default states, and how required and managed extensions behave.

Import

Import brings work you already have from other coding agents into Glean Tau, so you can continue your work in Glean Tau. Open Settings → Import.

Glean Tau finds data from applications such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, and imports chats and skills. Chats become ordinary Glean Tau chats with their transcripts, and skills are selected individually and join your other skills. A tool you don't have installed doesn't appear.

Glean doesn't import skills that belong to a single workspace, provider instructions, saved prompts, or agent definitions. Instruction files such as AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md stay with the repository that owns them.

Importing copies your data and doesn't change anything in the original tool, so your existing setup keeps working.

Integrations

Connected tools Glean Tau can act in.

Some pages, such as Import, Integrations, and Pets, come from a feature. A page appears only while its feature is on, so turning a feature off in Extensions also removes its page.

Agent access

How Glean Tau handles actions that touch files, run commands, use the network, or change connected services:

• Approval mode, the global default for new chats in every project
• Sandbox Mode, whether local commands and file writes use managed execution boundaries
• Remembered approvals you can review and revoke
• Open settings.json, where you edit rules and extra project folders in your user settings file

Before you change the default, see Set the global default. For readable project and file-access examples, see Configure your access. Your organization can restrict available modes and features. See Manage Glean Tau settings.

Preferences

The Preferences group controls how Glean Tau looks and behaves for you.

Appearance

How the app looks:

• Theme: System, Light, or Dark
• Color palette, including Surprise me every day
• Typography, such as font size and layout density
• Contrast and Motion accessibility options

Your organization can't override contrast, motion, or typography. These stay under your control.

Personalization

How Glean Tau responds and how the composer behaves:

• Response style, where Default style sets the default tone for responses
• Attribution, where Credit Glean Tau adds a footnote when Glean Tau sends messages or comments in your connected tools
• Composer, where Follow-up behavior sets what Enter does while a response is running
• Global instructions, stored in ~/.glean/agent/AGENTS.md and applied to new conversations

See the following for details on Global instructions and Composer:

Global instructions apply to every new conversation, whatever you're working on. They're written to ~/.glean/agent/AGENTS.md. If the file changes outside Settings while you're editing, Glean Tau keeps your edits and asks before it replaces the newer version on disk.

A project can also carry its own AGENTS.md file. That file is repository-owned, so it travels with the code and applies to everyone working in it. Keep durable personal preferences global, such as how you want code explained, and keep project-specific rules in the project's own file.

Changes apply to new conversations, so a chat that's already open won't pick them up.

In Composer, Follow-up behavior controls what happens when you press Enter while the agent is still working. Both options add your message without stopping the current response.

Option	What Enter does
Queue	Sends your message after the current response finishes.
Steer	Guides the current response without interrupting it. The agent applies your message before its next step.

Queue is the default. Choose Steer when you often correct the agent mid-task and want it to change course right away rather than after it finishes.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcuts for actions such as Open quick entry, New chat, and Search chats.

Select a shortcut, then press the keys you want. Press Escape to cancel.

Shortcuts use the modifier keys of the system you're on, so a shortcut that uses Command on macOS uses Control on Windows.

Dictation and Shots also add an entry to Keyboard shortcuts, where Configure opens their settings. See Capture a window into a chat.

Pets

Pets puts an animated companion in a small always-on-top window that reacts to what the agent is doing. Choose one in Settings → Pets.

Because the window stays above your other apps, it's a way to notice that a run needs your attention while you're working somewhere else. The pet shows an attention state when the agent is waiting for input, and distinct states for thinking, working, celebrating, sleeping, and idle. You can drag it anywhere on screen and send a quick prompt from it without returning to the main window.

You can also create your own pet by asking in a chat. It then appears alongside the built-in pets.

Memory

Memory keeps notes across chats in a local folder, so Glean Tau can recall your preferences and past decisions. See Remember across chats. The Memory page shows how many notes are saved, and Explore opens them in Explorer.

Resources

The Resources group shows your usage, local storage, and tutorials.

Insights

Your activity and estimated model cost on this device over time, such as chats and turns. Choose a Time range, from Past day to Current month. For the cost of the current chat, see Track model cost and usage.

Storage

How much local space Glean Tau uses:

• Overview of total space used for chats, drafts, and extension-owned data
• Per-extension usage, where you can clear an extension's local data without uninstalling it
• How long archived chats are kept before automatic deletion

Tutorials

Tutorials are short guided walkthroughs for Glean Tau features. Open Settings → Tutorials, then search or filter by tag to find one.

Starting a tutorial opens a new chat and sends the opening prompt for you, so the walkthrough begins on its own. A tutorial runs in the live app: it highlights the real control to use next, then waits for you to select it before moving on. You do each step yourself, in the app.

Stay in the tutorial chat while it runs. Switching to another chat interrupts the walkthrough, and the tutorial can't follow you there. The tutorial opens in its own new chat so it doesn't disturb work already in progress.

The tutorial chat isn't tied to a project or working folder, so if a tutorial covers work in a repository, open the folder yourself when it asks.

Tutorials are split into two tabs. To do holds the ones you haven't finished, and Completed keeps the ones you have. A completed tutorial stays in Completed, where Replay tutorial runs it again as often as you like. If a tutorial's content changes in a later release, it moves back into To do.

The list covers only features that have a tutorial, not all of Glean Tau. Glean Tau tracks your tutorial progress on your machine and doesn't sync.

Glean

The Glean extension connects Glean Tau to your company's knowledge. It handles your sign-in, gives the agent permission-aware Glean tools, and provides the full Glean web app inside Glean Tau. Because sign-in requires it, it's always on and doesn't appear in Settings → Extensions.

The extension surfaces in three places:

• Company search in chat. The agent searches when a question needs company context, and returns results as source chips you can open.
• Glean Search panel. An on-demand panel beside a chat, for searching yourself instead of asking the agent.
• Glean Web. Select More → Glean Web to open the full Glean app. See Use Glean Tau with Glean Web.

Beyond search, the agent can look up coworkers, search your email and meetings, search the web, recall what you've told it before, and reach the SaaS apps your company connects to Glean. Glean Tau activates a tool when your question needs it, so you don't choose tools yourself. Results respect your existing Glean permissions, so Glean Tau can't surface anything you couldn't already find in Glean.