Settings

Settings is one window, laid out like System Settings: its sections in a sidebar, a search at the top that finds any setting.

Open it from the Fluent icon in the menu bar → Settings, or press ⌘, while a Fluent window is in front. Actions, Models, Integrations and Memory in the same menu open Settings at that section. When you start Fluent yourself, it opens Settings at Actions.

Find A Setting

Type in Search above the sidebar (⌘F) and the sidebar lists the settings that match, each with the section it's in. Click one to go to it: Settings opens that section and highlights the row.

Sections with long lists have a search of their own in the toolbar: Actions, Shortcuts, Memory, Variables, Models and Integrations. There, ⌘F opens that search instead.

Sections At A Glance

Change Settings By Asking

You don't have to look for a setting. Ask in any chat:

• "Switch to dark mode"
• "Set my dictation shortcut to Control-Option-D"
• "Make the panel text bigger"
• "Where do I turn off chat names?"

Fluent makes the change and puts Undo under its reply. When you ask where something is, Settings opens at that row and highlights it.

This works for most switches and choices, from General to Advanced. Fluent asks before changes that are hard to take back, such as hiding the menu bar icon or deleting old History automatically. The prompts, your license, the polish model and the Finder menu are changed only by you, in Settings, and so is everything in Pets.

Fluent can also connect providers and integrations for you: "Set up Groq", "Connect my Notion".

This works with the Fluent integration, which is on by default in Settings → Integrations.

General

Appearance

Shortcuts

Click a shortcut and press the new keys. A shortcut Fluent already uses for something else gets a warning.

Actions

Your actions as cards or a list, filtered by All, Default or Custom. Click one to open its editor in place; + creates an action. The star in the toolbar opens Smart Panel Favorites, the actions the Smart Panel shows first: drag cards in to add and arrange them, out to remove. Colored icons and Favorite actions alignment there set how they look in the panel.

See Actions.

Memory

Your Memory groups and what's in them, as Cards or a Graph: search with Search memories, create a group, and open one to add files and folders or edit what Fluent learned. The gear in the toolbar holds Memory's own settings:

See Setup & Usage.

Variables

Custom Variables are values you define once and use in any action, such as a signature or a product name. Built-in Variables fill themselves in, such as the date or the selected text.

See Variables.

Smart Panel

How the panel you open with your shortcut behaves:

• Position: Position mode (Follow Mouse or Spotlight), Remember position, where it minimizes, snap points, Remember panel width
• Conversation: Conversation flow (Follow-up Tabs or Chat Flow), follow-up tabs, Keep tabs open on hide, Keep requests running in background, pinning
• Replies: auto scroll, Expand to maximum available space, streaming animation, Smooth mouse wheel scrolling
• Selection: selected text and Finder files as attachments, the loading cursor for Auto Insert actions
• Buttons: Always show footer, Hide help button

Its theme and font are in Appearance, its shortcut in Shortcuts. See Smart Panel.

Chat UI

The chat window can have a font of its own: Font family, Font weight and Font size each start at Same as Smart Panel. Chat UI background turns the animated background of its New Chat and Scheduled views on or off.

See Chat.

Voice

Real-time, on-device dictation:

• Voice Dictation: turn it on, and pick the microphone and speech model
• Text input behavior: whether the dictation shortcut types your words, asks Fluent, or types Fluent's answer, and the Ask Fluent model that answers
• Polish While Speaking: how much Fluent cleans up what you say, the polish model, and Voice Snippets
• Recording Indicator: floating badge, menu bar indicator, screen glow

The dictation shortcut is in Shortcuts. See Voice.

Pets

The pet: Show Pet, its character and size, when its suggestions come and which model writes them, nudges, rewrites of your drafts in your voice, Hold to Talk and the lock screen.

See Pet.

Models

All your AI providers: API keys, Subscription Providers (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, GitHub Copilot), NanoGPT, Local (MLX) models, Apple Intelligence and Custom Providers. Each model card can be made the default, starred as a favorite, or configured.

See Models & Providers.

Integrations

Turn built-in integrations on or off, such as Finder, Calendar, Web Search, Computer Use, Memory, Actions, Code and Fluent. Open one to choose which of its tools a model may use and which ask you first. + in the toolbar connects an external MCP server from the directory or by hand.

See Setup & Usage.

Context

What Fluent may read from your screen:

• Application Context: read the active app, and optionally attach it to every request
• Browser Context: read browser tabs, and optionally attach the active tab
• Options: Use selected text only (when text is selected, ignore app and browser context) and Include active app or tab (Fluent tells the model which app or tab you're in, on by default)
• Context Items: what shows up when you type @ or open the + menu, in which order, and whether suggestions appear while you type

See Context.

History

• Enable history, Name chats automatically (each chat gets a short name from its model), and Automatically clean items older than a day to a year
• Storage: storage used, Clean history, Export data and Import data
• Memory: Use past conversations lets Memory bring up related earlier chats. Learn… learns the chats you had before turning it on. Both need On-device relevance models (Memory's settings, the gear in Memory).

See History.

Blacklist

Apps added here are ignored: Fluent doesn't activate while you use them. Changes apply right away.

See Blacklist.

Advanced

These settings change how Fluent behaves. Change them only if you know what you need.

Prompts

• System Prompt: the instructions every request starts with
• MCP Prompt: the instructions that tell models how to use integrations

Click Customize to edit one; the row then says Customized. Reset to Default, at the bottom left of the editor, brings back the default; then click Save. The defaults are carefully tuned, so customize only for a specific need.

Experimental Features

These may change or be removed in future versions.

Back To Defaults

• Prompts: Reset to Default in the System Prompt or MCP Prompt editor, then Save
• A model or provider: Reset in its configuration
• Most switches and choices: ask Fluent, for example "Set the panel font size back to default"