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Session settings

Advanced settings can be chosen before a session starts and changed later in Chat settings. They are stored in settings.json beside the session database and read again before use.

The Fast preset button at the top of the form fills in settings that trade depth for speed: no thinking for the helper agents, no scene preview, no verification pass, no memory look-ups by characters, at most two rounds of three characters, no off-stage rounds and a closed world. Nothing is saved until you save or start the session, and each setting can be changed afterwards.

Important groups include:

  • Rounds: maximum rounds and characters activated for one player message.
  • Memory: imperfect memory, recall count, lookup tools, retrieval breadth and keeper verification.
  • Context: explicit token limit or a ratio of the selected model's context window, plus short- and long-term summary sizes.
  • Authoring: whether the GM may ask the world author to create missing entities and how many may be added per turn.
  • Images: generation mode, reference handling, reuse, interpretation and captioning models, and the hires fix (render again larger from the first result, when the image service can).
  • Prompts: prompt language and overrides.
  • Reasoning and sampling: child-agent reasoning and role-specific model sampling.
  • Models: the model of each kind of helper (characters, record keeper, suggestion writer, world and plot author) as provider/model; empty uses the chat's own. Characters run side by side and write short answers, and the keeper runs in the background, so a smaller, faster model often does as well there.
  • Provider options: settings described by the selected embedding or media provider.

The What the helpers did lately list at the bottom of the tab shows the latest runs of those helpers: which one, on which model, how long it took, how many tool calls it made, and why it failed when it did. Use it to see where a slow turn went.

An invalid external edit is logged and the last valid settings remain active. The complete defaults are listed in Configuration reference.