Workspace settings
Set the model, reasoning effort, and second opinion that every new session in your organization starts on.
Workspace settings hold the defaults new sessions open on, set once for the whole organization. Open the user menu and choose Workspace settings. The menu item appears for admins; every setting in it is an admin's to change.
Inference provider
This chooses who processes your organization's model requests and which models you can choose. See Model provider.
Default model
Model, under Session defaults, sets the model a new session opens on, Opus until an admin picks another. Anyone can switch models inside their own session with /model, so this is the starting point rather than a restriction. Model and effort lists the choices and the default when using your own keys.
Pick a default that offers auto permission mode, which is Fable and Opus. With any other default, new sessions open in bypass mode instead, where nothing prompts before the terminal acts, and the dialog says so under the list. See Permission modes.
Default reasoning effort
Reasoning effort offers three levels: High, for the best speed balance and quick turnaround; Extra high, for deeper reasoning on heavy modeling; and Max, for the most complex analysis. The deeper levels take longer to respond.
The recommended level is High on Fable, Opus, Astra, and Grok, or Extra high on Sonnet, Sol, and Terra. Members can change effort with /effort; the session also offers Low, Medium, and, on Fable, Opus, and Sonnet, Ultra.
Ask the VP
Ask the VP lets the terminal consult a senior reviewer model about its work. It starts on, with Fable as the reviewer.
With it on, a second list sets which model reviews: Fable, Opus, or Sonnet. A session can turn the consultations off for itself with /ask-vp off.
Document text extraction
Scanned PDFs are transcribed into a text file in the Library. The default is Opus 5.5; choose Sonnet 5.5 or Off under Document text extraction.
When a change takes effect
Saving session defaults applies them to sessions opened from then on. Sessions already running keep the settings they started with, so open a new session to pick up a change.
Learn more
- Model provider: what the provider choice means for your firm's data.
- Model and effort: the per-session
/model,/effort, and/ask-vpcommands. - Permission modes: what auto and bypass mean once a session is running.