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  1. Qodo Gen Chat

Chat Preferences

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Set Chat Preferences to customize your Qodo Gen experience with custom instructions and other settings.

How to get to the Chat Preferences page

  1. Open Qodo Gen Chat by clicking the Qodo Gen icon in your Extensions or Plugins bar.

  2. Click the three dots icon on the top right.

  3. Choose Chat Preferences.

Configure Chat Preferences

In the Chat Preferences window, you can configure:

Custom Instructions

Add custom instructions for Qodo Gen Chat to follow in conversations.

You can configure specific instructions for specific commands by clicking the Add a specific command button, or set general instructions for all commands by adding them under All messages.

(For Agentic Mode) Terminal Commands

  1. Allowed commands: Set terminal commands that will be automatically executed by the agent, no approval needed. Other terminal commands will require approval.

  2. Blocked commands: Set terminal commands that will be automatically blocked by the agent.

(For Standard Mode) Code Editor

These preferences affect the code editor. They're only available to set when using Qodo Gen in Standard Mode.

  1. Wrap text in code blocks: Set whether code would be wrapped in code blocks.

  2. Editor buttons: Enable or disable the appearance of editor buttons above functions and classes.

Code Completion

Enable or disable Code Completion features.

Example Usage

Under Custom Instructions, you can instruct Qodo Gen to follow certain rules. These rules can be followed by all messages in Qodo Gen or by specific commands only.

Here, we've instructed Qodo Gen to "Answer in 5 lines max" on all messages, and "Answer in Italian" specifically for /ask commands.

Asking Qodo Gen a question, we can see it follows the instructions.

These preferences affect the available when using Qodo Gen in .

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