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
Enable Auto Update	general.enableAutoUpdate	Enable automatic updates.	true
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
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 Thoughts in Title	ui.showStatusInTitle	Show Gemini CLI model thoughts in the terminal window title during the working phase	false
Dynamic Window Title	ui.dynamicWindowTitle	Update the terminal window title with current status icons (Ready: ◇, Action Required: ✋, Working: ✦)	true
Show Home Directory Warning	ui.showHomeDirectoryWarning	Show a warning when running Gemini CLI in the home directory.	true
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.	true
Show Citations	ui.showCitations	Show citations for generated text in the chat.	false
Show Model Info In Chat	ui.showModelInfoInChat	Show the model name in the chat for each model turn.	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.	false
Incremental Rendering	ui.incrementalRendering	Enable incremental rendering for the UI. This option will reduce flickering but may cause rendering artifacts. Only supported when useAlternateBuffer is enabled.	true
Enable Loading Phrases	ui.accessibility.enableLoadingPhrases	Enable loading phrases during operations.	true
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).	0.5
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
Enable Fuzzy Search	context.fileFiltering.enableFuzzySearch	Enable fuzzy search when searching for files.	true

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.	4000000
Tool Output Truncation Lines	tools.truncateToolOutputLines	The number of lines to keep when truncating tool output.	1000
Disable LLM Correction	tools.disableLLMCorrection	Disable LLM-based error correction for edit tools. When enabled, tools will fail immediately if exact string matches are not found, instead of attempting to self-correct.	false

Security

UI Label	Setting	Description	Default
Disable YOLO Mode	security.disableYoloMode	Disable YOLO mode, even if enabled by a flag.	false
Allow Permanent Tool Approval	security.enablePermanentToolApproval	Enable the "Allow for all future sessions" option in tool confirmation dialogs.	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
Enable Environment Variable Redaction	security.environmentVariableRedaction.enabled	Enable redaction of environment variables that may contain secrets.	false

Experimental

UI Label	Setting	Description	Default
Agent Skills	experimental.skills	Enable Agent Skills (experimental).	false
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
Use OSC 52 Paste	experimental.useOSC52Paste	Use OSC 52 sequence for pasting instead of clipboardy (useful for remote sessions).	false
Enable CLI Help Agent	experimental.cliHelpAgentSettings.enabled	Enable the CLI Help Agent.	true
Plan	experimental.plan	Enable planning features (Plan Mode and tools).	false

Hooks

UI Label	Setting	Description	Default
Hook Notifications	hooks.notifications	Show visual indicators when hooks are executing.	true