Settings
Open Settings from the name and email block at the bottom of the sidebar. Press / to search settings. Which pages you see depends on your role and group.
Your account
Section titled “Your account”Account has:
- Your profile: Edit your name, and Sign out.
- General Settings: Sound notification when an answer is ready, Tool Call Density (compact or detailed), and Theme (Light, Dark or System).
- Your memory: see Memory.
- Danger Zone: Delete all non-starred chats.
Appearance sets the date format and the default story theme: colors, typography and a brand header.
Project
Section titled “Project”| Page | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Project Settings | The project’s name and path. Admins also see environment variables and database credentials. |
| Budget | Spending limits on models. See Models. |
| Users & Groups | Users, groups and row-level security. See Users and roles. |
| Agent › Models | Model providers and default models. See Models. |
| Agent › Capabilities | Web search, saved prompts, project memory, maps, the semantic layer mode, and experimental options. |
| Agent › MCP servers | Outbound MCP servers the agent can call. |
| Integrations & MCP | Slack, and the Polaris MCP endpoint for AI clients. See Slack and MCP access. |
Capabilities
Section titled “Capabilities”| Capability | What it does |
|---|---|
| Web search | Lets the agent search and read the public web. See Web search and fetch. |
| Saved Prompts | Example questions shown on the new chat page. |
| Project memory | Turns memory on or off for everyone. See Memory. |
| Maps | Map charts and a library of boundary shapes. |
| Semantic layer | How strictly the agent uses the semantic layer. See Semantic layer. |
| Code mode | Lets the agent write small scripts that combine several tool calls. |
| Sandboxes | Lets the agent run Python and shell code in a secure cloud sandbox. Sandbox secrets become environment variables there. |
| Dangerous write permissions | Lets SQL change data. Off by default. Leave it off unless you are sure. |
Context
Section titled “Context”Admins and context admins see:
- File Explorer: browse the project context, and run tests with ⌘ E.
- Recommendations: suggested fixes to the context, based on real chats.
- Git: the project’s repository settings.
Observability
Section titled “Observability”- Chat with Polaris data: an admin mode where you ask questions about Polaris’s own usage data, such as “Which users asked the most questions this week?”.
- Usage & Costs: see Usage and costs.
Organization
Section titled “Organization”- Organization Settings: projects, and Organization API keys for
pda deploy. - Members: everyone in the organization, and when they were last active.