Layout

Layout decides where the app’s own controls sit and how much of them shows. It sits in the Application group of Settings, so it applies to this app on this device. Changes save as you make them.

Presets

Preset applies one set of detail choices to every group on this page:

Setting	Default	Compact	Detailed
Usage limit readings	Percentage, label, reset timer and mini bar	Percentage only	Percentage, label, reset timer and mini bar
Resource monitor metrics	CPU, Processes	CPU	CPU, Memory, Processes, RAM share
Files changed, Active agents, Background, Access	Visible	Compact	Visible
Microphone, Compact conversation	Visible	Hidden	Visible
Attach image	Visible	Visible	Visible
Reasoning level	Text	Bars	Bars + text
Pin context breakdown	Off	Off	On, every field
Context indicator	Text	Ring only	Text
Resource chips on sidebar rows	None	None	CPU, Memory, Processes

When your settings match no preset, the row shows Custom. Change any row below and the preset reads Custom until the values match one again.
A preset leaves the status bar’s Placement, Reasoning control, and the sidebar’s panel order and visibility as they are.
Reset to defaults puts the whole page back, including those. It doesn’t ask first.

Status Bar

The status bar shows your usage limits and the resource monitor. A preview at the top of the group shows the result as you change it.

Setting	Default	What it does
Placement	Status bar	Where usage limits and the resource monitor live: the Status bar at the bottom of the window, or the Header.
Show resource monitor in header	On	Shows the resource monitor in the header, beside the usage gauge. Shown when Placement is Header, in narrow windows, and in the mobile app.
Footer status bar	Off	Shows the status bar at the bottom on phones and narrow windows. It hides while the keyboard or the navigation drawer is open. Shown in the mobile app and narrow windows, in place of Placement. With it off, the header still shows usage limits and the resource monitor.

The rest of this group configures the status bar, so in the mobile app it appears only once Footer status bar is on.

Usage Limits

The Usage limits switch (on by default) shows one segment per provider that reports a usage limit.

Setting	Default	What it does
Percentage	Used	Show how much of each limit is Used, or how much is Remaining.
Show used / remaining label	On	Spells out “used” or “remaining” after each percentage.
Show reset timer	On	Counts down to each limit’s reset. Off shows the limit’s name instead, such as `5h` or `wk`.
Show mini bar	On	Draws a small fill bar ahead of each limit.

Below these, Providers on … lists each provider that reports limits on the host the status bar is watching:

Its switch hides or shows that provider’s segment.
Limits chooses what the segment shows: Tightest limit (automatic), which is whichever limit is closest to running out, plus any specific limits you check. At least one stays checked; use the provider’s switch to hide it.

For what these readings mean and what happens when a limit runs out, see Usage limits and model routing.

Resource Monitor

The Resource monitor switch (on by default) shows CPU, memory and process numbers.

Setting	Default	What it does
Scope	Host	Host measures Traycer’s processes on the host the status bar is watching. Desktop app measures this app.
Metrics	CPU, Processes	Which numbers to show: CPU, Memory, Processes and RAM share. RAM share is only available for the Host scope.

Tabs

Setting	Default	What it does
Task tab layout	Scroll	Scroll keeps Task tab titles readable and scrolls the strip. Shrink to fit makes tabs narrower as you open more.
Home tab	Off	Shows a fixed Home tab with everything running across your Tasks. See Search and navigation.

Composer

These rows change the controls around the chat composer. Rows set to Compact keep every action they had, in a smaller form. Rows that can be Hidden have another way to do the same thing. Below the input:

Setting	Options	What Compact or Hidden does
Files changed	Visible, Compact	Folds the row into a chip with its line counts. Click the chip to open the full panel.
Active agents	Visible, Compact	Folds the row, and the responses received from other agents, into a chip that counts what is running.
Background	Visible, Compact	Folds the row into a chip that counts what is running in the background.

Toolbar:

Setting	Options	What Compact or Hidden does
Attach image	Visible, Hidden	Removes the button. Pasting or dropping an image still attaches it.
Access	Visible, Compact	Shows the permission mode as its icon alone, with the name on hover.
Microphone	Visible, Hidden	Removes the button. The dictation shortcut still starts voice input; this doesn’t turn Voice input off in General.
Compact conversation	Visible, Hidden	Removes the button beside the context reading. The command palette and `/compact` still compact a conversation.

Two more rows set how reasoning effort is shown:

Setting	Options	Default	What it does
Reasoning level	Text, Bars, Bars + text	Text	How the model chip shows the thinking effort. Bars draws one bar per level the model offers, filled up to the current one; the level’s name stays in the chip’s tooltip.
Reasoning control	Slider, List	Slider	How the model picker offers reasoning levels. List shows every level as a button.

All composer rows default to Visible.

Chat

A preview at the top of the group shows the context reading.

Setting	Default	What it does
Pin context breakdown	Off	Keeps the context window breakdown visible near the composer when usage data is available. Fields chooses what it shows: Used, Fresh, Cache read, Cache write and Output. The remaining percentage always comes first, and at least one field stays selected.
Context indicator	Text	How the chip beside the composer shows the context left while the breakdown isn’t pinned: Text, Ring, or Ring only.
Minimap position	Right	Where minimaps appear: Right, Left, or Hidden. Minimaps are compact overviews for moving around chats and artifacts.

Resource chips on sidebar rows shows compact live readings on rows in the Task navigator. Pick any of CPU, Memory and Processes. None are on by default. Panels arranges the panel rail in a Task’s sidebar. It is the same arrangement you can change on the rail itself; see Panels.

Drag icons in the strip to reorder them.
Drop one icon onto another to make a tabbed panel.
Uncheck a panel to keep it out of the rail. The last visible panel can’t be unchecked.
Each panel’s menu has Move up, Move down, Group with panel above, and Move out of group, for arranging panels without dragging.
Reset panel visibility and Reset order undo your changes.

In windows too narrow to show the sidebar, Panels shows a note instead.

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