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Gemini CLI Settings (/settings Command)

Control your Gemini CLI experience with the /settings command. The /settings command opens a dialog to view and edit all your Gemini CLI settings, including your UI experience, keybindings, and accessibility features.

Your Gemini CLI settings are stored in a settings.json file. In addition to using the /settings command, you can also edit them in one of the following locations:

  • User settings: ~/.gemini/settings.json
  • Workspace settings: your-project/.gemini/settings.json

Note: Workspace settings override user settings.

Settings reference

Here is a list of all the available settings, grouped by category and ordered as they appear in the UI.

General

UI Label Setting Description Default
Preview Features (e.g., models) general.previewFeatures Enable preview features (e.g., preview models). false
Vim Mode general.vimMode Enable Vim keybindings. false
Disable Auto Update general.disableAutoUpdate Disable automatic updates. false
Enable Prompt Completion general.enablePromptCompletion Enable AI-powered prompt completion suggestions while typing. false
Debug Keystroke Logging general.debugKeystrokeLogging Enable debug logging of keystrokes to the console. false
Session Retention general.sessionRetention Settings for automatic session cleanup. This feature is disabled by default. undefined
Enable Session Cleanup general.sessionRetention.enabled Enable automatic session cleanup. false

Output

UI Label Setting Description Default
Output Format output.format The format of the CLI output. Can be text or json. text

UI

UI Label Setting Description Default
Hide Window Title ui.hideWindowTitle Hide the window title bar. false
Show Status in Title ui.showStatusInTitle Show Gemini CLI status and thoughts in the terminal window title. false
Hide Tips ui.hideTips Hide helpful tips in the UI. false
Hide Banner ui.hideBanner Hide the application banner. false
Hide Context Summary ui.hideContextSummary Hide the context summary (GEMINI.md, MCP servers) above the input. false
Hide CWD ui.footer.hideCWD Hide the current working directory path in the footer. false
Hide Sandbox Status ui.footer.hideSandboxStatus Hide the sandbox status indicator in the footer. false
Hide Model Info ui.footer.hideModelInfo Hide the model name and context usage in the footer. false
Hide Context Window Percentage ui.footer.hideContextPercentage Hides the context window remaining percentage. true
Hide Footer ui.hideFooter Hide the footer from the UI. false
Show Memory Usage ui.showMemoryUsage Display memory usage information in the UI. false
Show Line Numbers ui.showLineNumbers Show line numbers in the chat. false
Show Citations ui.showCitations Show citations for generated text in the chat. false
Use Full Width ui.useFullWidth Use the entire width of the terminal for output. true
Use Alternate Screen Buffer ui.useAlternateBuffer Use an alternate screen buffer for the UI, preserving shell history. true
Disable Loading Phrases ui.accessibility.disableLoadingPhrases Disable loading phrases for accessibility. false
Screen Reader Mode ui.accessibility.screenReader Render output in plain-text to be more screen reader accessible. false

IDE

UI Label Setting Description Default
IDE Mode ide.enabled Enable IDE integration mode. false

Model

UI Label Setting Description Default
Max Session Turns model.maxSessionTurns Maximum number of user/model/tool turns to keep in a session. -1 means unlimited. -1
Compression Threshold model.compressionThreshold The fraction of context usage at which to trigger context compression (e.g. 0.2, 0.3). 0.2
Skip Next Speaker Check model.skipNextSpeakerCheck Skip the next speaker check. true

Context

UI Label Setting Description Default
Memory Discovery Max Dirs context.discoveryMaxDirs Maximum number of directories to search for memory. 200
Load Memory From Include Directories context.loadMemoryFromIncludeDirectories Controls how /memory refresh loads GEMINI.md files. When true, include directories are scanned; when false, only the current directory is used. false
Respect .gitignore context.fileFiltering.respectGitIgnore Respect .gitignore files when searching. true
Respect .geminiignore context.fileFiltering.respectGeminiIgnore Respect .geminiignore files when searching. true
Enable Recursive File Search context.fileFiltering.enableRecursiveFileSearch Enable recursive file search functionality when completing @ references in the prompt. true
Disable Fuzzy Search context.fileFiltering.disableFuzzySearch Disable fuzzy search when searching for files. false

Tools

UI Label Setting Description Default
Enable Interactive Shell tools.shell.enableInteractiveShell Use node-pty for an interactive shell experience. Fallback to child_process still applies. true
Show Color tools.shell.showColor Show color in shell output. false
Auto Accept tools.autoAccept Automatically accept and execute tool calls that are considered safe (e.g., read-only operations). false
Use Ripgrep tools.useRipgrep Use ripgrep for file content search instead of the fallback implementation. Provides faster search performance. true
Enable Tool Output Truncation tools.enableToolOutputTruncation Enable truncation of large tool outputs. true
Tool Output Truncation Threshold tools.truncateToolOutputThreshold Truncate tool output if it is larger than this many characters. Set to -1 to disable. 10000
Tool Output Truncation Lines tools.truncateToolOutputLines The number of lines to keep when truncating tool output. 100
Enable Message Bus Integration tools.enableMessageBusIntegration Enable policy-based tool confirmation via message bus integration. false

Security

UI Label Setting Description Default
Disable YOLO Mode security.disableYoloMode Disable YOLO mode, even if enabled by a flag. false
Blocks extensions from Git security.blockGitExtensions Blocks installing and loading extensions from Git. false
Folder Trust security.folderTrust.enabled Setting to track whether Folder trust is enabled. false

Experimental

UI Label Setting Description Default
Enable Codebase Investigator experimental.codebaseInvestigatorSettings.enabled Enable the Codebase Investigator agent. true
Codebase Investigator Max Num Turns experimental.codebaseInvestigatorSettings.maxNumTurns Maximum number of turns for the Codebase Investigator agent. 10