Settings and Customization
Tune Jean's defaults for backends, prompts, appearance, keybindings, integrations, and experimental features.
Jean ships with strong defaults, but it is meant to be shaped around how you work.
The Preferences dialog is where that happens.
General
The General pane covers the core app behavior, including:
- CLI installation and authentication status
- default backend and model choices
- terminal and editor defaults
- git polling behavior
- archive retention and removal behavior
- onboarding helpers and cleanup actions
This is the best place to set the "every new project should feel like this" baseline.
Appearance and keybindings
You can adjust:
- theme mode
- UI and chat fonts
- syntax themes
- keyboard shortcuts
Keybindings are user-configurable, so the defaults are only a starting point.
Providers
The Providers pane manages custom Claude CLI profiles.
Use this when you need Claude CLI to route through another endpoint or environment while keeping Jean's session workflow unchanged.
Usage
The Usage pane currently focuses on Codex usage information, including:
- plan type
- credits remaining when available
- session and weekly usage windows
- extra model limits when exposed by the CLI
Magic prompts
Jean lets you customize the prompt templates behind built-in workflows such as:
- issue investigation
- PR investigation
- code review
- commit message generation
- release notes
- conflict resolution
- session naming
- recaps
You can also set model, provider, backend, and reasoning defaults per workflow.
MCP servers and integrations
Two other panes matter a lot for power users:
- MCP Servers for tool discovery and enablement
- Integrations for services like Linear
These decide how much extra context and tooling a session can see.
Experimental features
Jean keeps some features behind an Experimental pane, including:
- parallel execution prompting
- automatic session recap
- debug mode
These are useful, but they are intentionally labeled as less stable than the core workflow.