Settings
Settings open with Cmd/Ctrl + ,, in four sections.
Settings here are for the app. Things that belong to one conversation — model, effort, permission mode — are chips beside the message box instead, because they are per session.
Account
How Vitrino signs in to Claude: your Anthropic API key.
The key is stored in Vitrino's own settings file, and it is the only credential used. Whatever is in your shell environment is deliberately ignored — see First run for why.
Notifications
Whether Vitrino posts a system notification when Claude is waiting on you and its window is not focused.
Only waiting states notify: a question, a plan to review, a permission request. A finished turn does not, and neither does background work. On by default; one switch turns it off.
Transcript
Two things:
Suggested prompts — whether Claude Code's proposed next prompt appears as a chip above the message box. It is never sent for you; Tab puts it in the box to edit.
How much of each kind of block you see — for each kind of collapsible content (thinking, tool output, diffs, raw payloads, and so on), whether it starts open or closed. If you always want to see diffs but never raw JSON, this is where you say so.
About
Versions — Vitrino's, and the Claude Code it bundles — plus Check for Updates… and a link to the log folder.
The log link is the useful one when something has gone wrong: it opens the folder containing main.log directly, rather than making you find the application data directory by hand.
Per-session controls
Beside the message box, not in Settings:
- Model — which Claude model this session uses.
- Effort — how much thinking it does before answering, where the model supports it. Fast mode, where available, trades price for faster output.
- Permission mode — how much Claude asks. See Permissions.
- Context — how full the window is, and Compact now.
- MCP — the servers connected to this session.
Each is remembered for that session.