HelpSettings

Settings

Where to find each setting, from light mode to security and your account.

  1. General
  2. On this Machine
  3. Your addresses

Open Settings with the gear at the top. Its tabs:

  • Account: Your addresses, the ones that count as you, with where each came from. Your plan in short, buttons to your account pages, and Sign out. See Plans and billing.
  • General: language and region, this device, coding agents, your Machine's browser, your Fleet and your account.
  • Security: Standard or Careful, and the settings they set. See Security levels.
  • Work hours: when your Machine may message you. See Work hours.
  • Writing: signatures and how you write. See Writing.
  • Skills: how-tos your Machine follows. See Skills.
  • Model: what answers for you, and its limits. See Model.

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General

  • Language and region: your Region sets how dates read (Oct 24 or 24 Oct) and the usual clock. Time format picks 12-hour (2:05 PM) or 24-hour (14:05) instead. Cards, Telegram, the digest and Fleet messages follow it. A hosted Machine starts from the country of the time zone you picked at signup. English is the only language for now.
  • This device: the app (Install app), Notifications with Send a test, and Light mode, only for this browser or phone. See Install the app and turn on notifications.
  • Coding agents: see Hand to Claude Code or Codex.
  • Open the Machine’s browser ↗: the browser your Machine uses for sites like LinkedIn.
  • Fleet rules: see Sharing rules.
  • Account: Open account and Sign out, on a hosted Machine.

On this Machine

A few settings live on the computer your Machine runs on, not in the app:

  • config.json: every setting, in one file. Restart the Machine after a change.
  • assistant connect: add a source, like assistant connect gmail or assistant connect outlook.
  • assistant telegram on or off: messages on Telegram. See Telegram.
  • assistant doctor: checks everything and prints a fix for each problem.

Your addresses

Every address of yours the Machine found: your accounts, Gmail or Outlook aliases, your calendar, your Slack and Intercom profile. Mail and meetings from any of them show as you. Remove one that isn't yours.

A shared address, like info@ or a Google Group, never counts by itself. One the Machine isn't sure about is under Maybe yours: tap Confirm if only you use it, or Not mine.

Something missing or out of date? Write to support@themachine.computer.