Chat preferences - Qodo Documentation
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Enterprise Set Chat Preferences to customize your Qodo IDE Plugin experience with custom instructions and other settings.

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How to get to the chat preferences page

1
Open Qodo Chat by clicking the Qodo icon in your Extensions or Plugins bar.
2
Click the three dots icon on the top right.
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Choose Chat Preferences.
Qodo Gen chat settings menu showing Chat preferences, Disable code completion, and other options

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Configure chat preferences

In the Chat Preferences window, you can configure:

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Custom instructions

Add custom instructions for Qodo Chat to follow in conversations. To configure instructions for a specific command, click Add a specific command. To set general instructions for all commands, add them under All messages.

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Terminal commands

These preferences affect the Terminal Agentic Tool.
  1. Allowed commands: Set terminal commands that the agent runs automatically without approval. All other terminal commands require approval.
  2. Blocked commands: Set terminal commands that the agent automatically blocks.