Settings
Open Settings from the rail or with ⌘,. Find a setting filters pages. Esc takes you back to where you were.
| Group | Pages |
|---|---|
| On this device | General, Appearance, Agora |
| Workspace | Workspaces, Profiles & Providers, Decision model, Permissions, Git, Memory, Connected Tools |
| Capabilities | Specialists, Skills, Plugins, Web & Network |
| Developer | Developer (development checkouts only) |
General has two groups. Chats holds Conversation (what a follow-up typed during a response does), New chats (Durable, Recorded or Volatile), Persona and Focus & delegation. This app holds Notifications and sounds, About Synoec (the version), Keyboard shortcuts, Local data (with Show Configuration File) and the Terminal command. Web & Network holds web search and page extraction (Tools and integrations) and the NetBird private network. Permissions holds the Sandbox level, Sandboxed projects and Computer Use (Computer Use).
Notifications and sounds are saved on this device, with separate switches. Notification popups are off until you turn them on, and turning them on shows one so the system can ask for permission then. They show a system notification when a chat you aren’t looking at needs an approval, an answer or a review, or a response failed or needs recovery. Clicking one opens that chat; it disappears once answered. Sounds plays the Attention sound at the same moments, and a separate Completion sound once a whole request has finished: its subthreads, background Tasks, goal and queued messages are all done, and it hasn’t been stopped. A run Synoec started itself extends the open request and never opens one, so steps and background resumes stay silent. Nothing fires for the chat on screen in a focused window while the computer is in use (no input for 60 seconds counts as away), except the completion sound after 20 seconds or more of work. Under the popups switch, Settings says what the system allows: Allowed by …, Delivered quietly by …, so no banners appear or Off in …, with Ask… while the system has not been asked yet, and Open Settings… afterwards, because only System Settings (or Windows Settings) can change it then.
Both sounds default to System default, which follows your computer: the alert sound on a Mac, and the Notification sound in Windows’ Sound settings, silent if that is set to none. Popups themselves stay silent, so a blocked popup never takes its sound with it. Pop, Long pop, Note, Bell, Knock, Pulse and Finish are generated by Synoec. Add Sound… keeps a file only after its contents are recognized as WAV, MP3, AAC/M4A, Ogg or FLAC and it fully decodes to under 10 seconds; a refusal appears in the card.
Persona changes only how the agent sounds, never Profiles, models or permissions. Change… opens a grid of Personas, each with a small pixel sprite that plays while hovered or focused (and stays still under reduced motion). The last card, Custom, sets your own Tone, Mood, Emotional fuse, Emoji style and up to 600 characters of instructions; Save Custom Persona applies it from each chat’s next message. The sprites are original Synoec artwork with no third-party art.