Settings Reference
To get started with settings, see Connect a Cloud Provider. For background on provider trade-offs, see The Provider Spectrum.
Daneel’s settings are organized into 19 panels, accessible via the gear icon on the launcher bubble.
Dashboard overview showing:
- Active LLM provider and model
- GPU/hardware summary (GPU name, cores, RAM, VRAM, bandwidth)
- Index statistics (indexed sites, total chunks, storage estimate)
- Appearance summary (theme, color, position)
- Privacy and telemetry status
- License plan and feature flags
- MCP server count
- Current page index status
Latest updates, features, and release notes from the Daneel AI team.
Appearance
Section titled “Appearance”| Control | Options | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Theme | Light, Dark | System-detected |
| Color style | Default (slate), Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Green, Neon | Default |
| Launcher position | Bottom right, Bottom center | Bottom right |
Data Backup
Section titled “Data Backup”| Control | Description |
|---|---|
| Export | Download a .zip of all settings, vaults, indexes, agents, MCP configs |
| Import | Restore from a .zip backup (drag-drop or file picker) |
| Azure Blob Storage | SAS URL input for cloud backup |
| S3-Compatible Storage | Access key, secret, bucket, region, endpoint for S3/R2/B2/MinIO |
See How to Back Up Your Data for step-by-step instructions.
AI Models
Section titled “AI Models”Cross-provider model browser with:
- Search — filter by name, provider, description
- Provider filter — All, WebGPU, Ollama, Claude, Azure, Gemini Nano
- Privacy filter — On-device only, Local network, Your cloud, Any cloud
- Capability filter — Tool calling, Thinking, Vision
- Hardware detection — GPU description, VRAM, RAM, GFLOPS, shader-f16 support
- Model wizard — guided recommendation based on your hardware
- Expandable model cards — description, quality rating, match score, license, effective context window, speed estimate, data residency
WebGPU
Section titled “WebGPU”| Control | Description |
|---|---|
| Model selection | Choose from 20+ models auto-filtered by GPU compatibility |
| Model loading | Download and cache models for offline use |
| Status | Current model status, GPU detection results |
Ollama
Section titled “Ollama”| Control | Description |
|---|---|
| Base URL | Ollama server address (default: http://localhost:11434) |
| Model selection | Dropdown of installed models (auto-detected) |
| Model management | Pull new models, delete existing ones |
| Connection status | Auto-probe indicator |
Gemini Nano
Section titled “Gemini Nano”| Control | Description |
|---|---|
| Availability | Auto-detected Chrome AI API status |
| Language | Language preference for the built-in model |
Claude
Section titled “Claude”| Control | Description |
|---|---|
| API key | Encrypted input (AES-256-GCM, stored locally) |
| Model selection | Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5 |
Azure OpenAI
Section titled “Azure OpenAI”| Control | Description |
|---|---|
| Endpoint URL | Azure OpenAI resource endpoint |
| Deployment name | Your model deployment name |
| Auth method | API Key or Entra ID (OAuth2) |
| API key | Input field (when API Key auth is selected) |
See How to Set Up Azure OpenAI.
Indexes
Section titled “Indexes”| Control | Description |
|---|---|
| Indexed sites list | Domain, page count, chunk count, last indexed date |
| Re-index | Re-crawl and update a site’s index |
| Clear | Delete all indexed data for a domain |
Default crawl parameters:
| Parameter | Default |
|---|---|
| Max pages | 150 |
| Max depth | 3 |
| Max chunks per page | 2,000 |
| Chunk size | 512 tokens |
| Chunk overlap | 64 tokens |
See How to Manage Site Indexes.
Knowledge Graph
Section titled “Knowledge Graph”| Control | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| NER model | GLiNER Small v2.1 int8 | Entity extraction model (4 options, 183–583 MB) |
| Ontology preset | General | Entity type categories (8 presets + custom) |
| Custom ontology | — | User-defined entity type labels |
| Dedup threshold | 0.85 | Entity name similarity threshold for merging |
| Extraction threshold | 0.55 | Minimum confidence for entity extraction |
| Max entity width | 12 | Maximum token span for a single entity |
| Particle animation | On | Animated particles on graph edges |
| Bloom glow | Off | Glow effect on nodes |
| Particle speed | 0.004 | Animation speed |
| Charge strength | -80 | Node repulsion force |
| Node scale | 4 | Base node size multiplier |
| Link opacity | 0.4 | Edge transparency |
| Background color | #060810 | Visualization background |
| Bloom strength | 1.0 | Intensity of bloom effect |
See How to Build a Knowledge Graph.
| Control | Description |
|---|---|
| Featured servers | Curated list of known-good MCP servers |
| Search | Browse MCP registries |
| Registered servers | Your connected servers with status badges |
| Add custom server | SSE URL + auth configuration |
| Enable/disable | Toggle individual servers without removing them |
| Test connection | Verify server responds |
See How to Connect an MCP Server.
Agents
Section titled “Agents”| Control | Description |
|---|---|
| Agent list | All configured agents |
| Create/edit agent | Name, purpose, system prompt, bound MCP servers |
| Delete | Remove an agent |
See How to Create a Custom Agent.
Docker
Section titled “Docker”| Control | Description |
|---|---|
| Companion sidecar | Always included (port 8809) |
| Ollama preset | Toggle Ollama container (port 11434) |
| MCP server templates | Add from catalog or custom command |
| YAML preview | Live preview of the generated compose file |
| Export | Download daneel.compose.yml + auto-register servers |
See How to Set Up the Docker Companion.
System
Section titled “System”Hardware and runtime information: GPU details, browser version, extension version, memory usage.
Privacy
Section titled “Privacy”Context injection
Section titled “Context injection”| Control | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Share location with agents | Off | Inject city-level geolocation into agent system prompts. Triggers a browser permission prompt on first enable. |
| Share date & timezone with agents | On | Inject current date, time, and IANA timezone into prompts. No permission needed. |
These are global gates — when off, no agent or MCP server can trigger context injection regardless of its own flags. See Environment Context for the full architecture.
Analytics
Section titled “Analytics”| Control | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Anonymous usage analytics | On | Feature usage telemetry via GA4 |
| Enhanced geolocation | Off | IP-based country/region for analytics (separate from agent context injection) |
Collected: feature usage counters (chat, search, crawl, model load, MCP, agents, vault), provider and model name, OS, Chrome version, language, country/region.
Never collected: page content, URLs visited, chat messages, personal information.
See Privacy Model for the full data flow explanation.
License
Section titled “License”| Control | Description |
|---|---|
| Status | Current plan and feature flags |
| Unlock | Opens Stripe checkout |
| Enter key | Manual license key entry (DAN-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX) |
Diagnostic tools: logs, storage inspection, runtime state.