Your Account & Preferences

Elowen remembers you — not just facts about your work, but how you like the assistant to sound, which model should run your conversations, and how the app should look on your screen. Everything on the Account page is personal to you: it travels with your login no matter where you sign in, and none of it affects anyone else's account. This page walks through what you can tune.

Your models and default worker

Account → Elowen AI holds two independent model choices:

• The chat model — which model your brain conversations run on.
• The Default worker — the executor that runs your tasks when a task does not name one. Any executor you may run is selectable here, including an Elowen AI model enabled in Settings → Models: the daemon then runs the task in-process as an embedded brain worker, with no external coding CLI installed. The two pickers never overwrite each other — the worker choice sets the task engine, not your chat model.

Thinking level

Account → Elowen AI also lets you set the reasoning effort your chat model spends before answering. The options are model-specific — each model offers the levels it actually supports, and leaving the picker empty means the model's own default applies. If you switch to a model that doesn't support the level you picked, the setting clears itself automatically.

Turn it up for harder problems where depth is worth waiting for; turn it down for quick everyday questions where you'd rather have a fast, cheap answer. Higher levels mean more latency and more tokens billed — see Usage & Costs for how that shows up.

Vision model

Right next to the chat model in Account → Elowen AI you can pick a separate vision model — the one that reads images and screenshots you paste into chat. Leave it empty and the server default is used.

Set this when you want a different price/quality point than your chat model: a cheap vision model if you mostly share simple screenshots, or a stronger one if the agent regularly has to read dense diagrams, error dialogs or scanned documents.

YOLO mode

The YOLO mode toggle in Account → Elowen AI tells the agent to stop asking for permission and just run everything. Turning it on requires an explicit confirmation of the risk, because from that moment the agent executes commands, edits files and calls tools without pausing to check with you. Deny rules still apply — YOLO only skips the prompts, it doesn't override what you've forbidden.

For daily use, granular permission rules (below) are the safer way to cut down on prompts: allow the commands you trust, keep asking for the rest. YOLO is for sessions where speed matters more than caution. See Autonomy & Safety for the full picture.

Unattended asks

Also in Account → Elowen AI: the unattended asks switch decides what happens when the agent needs input while you're away — during a cron run or a background mission, where nobody is there to answer.

• Deny (default) — the ask is refused and the agent works around it or stops and waits for you.
• Allow — the agent proceeds with the default answer and keeps going.

Allow it for background work you'd rather see finished than stalled; keep it off if an unattended default could do something you'd want to veto.

Permission rules

Account → Elowen AI hosts your personal permission rules — allow, ask and deny patterns for bash commands and tool names, edited in a side drawer. Rules are evaluated in order and the last match wins, so put broad allows first and specific denies after them.

You don't have to write rules by hand: when an approval prompt offers Always allow, accepting it saves a rule that lands in this list, where you can later edit or remove it. Autonomy & Safety explains how rules interact with autonomy levels and YOLO mode.

Compaction

Long conversations are automatically compacted — summarized so they keep fitting the model's context window. Account → Elowen AI exposes the knobs:

• Auto-compact toggle — turn automatic compaction on or off.
• Threshold — how full the context gets before compaction kicks in.
• Per-model overrides — a different threshold for specific models.
• Compaction model — which model writes the summary, so you can use a cheaper one than your chat model.

Brain & Chat explains what compaction does to a conversation and how to trigger it by hand.

Personality & advisor style

Elowen isn't just capable — it can sound the way you want it to. Each user shapes their own assistant voice, and none of it leaks between accounts.

Communication style is the always-on layer, set in Account → Personality as a single pick: Professional (default), Friendly, Concise or Detailed. It rewrites the assistant's register everywhere your brain runs.

Personality goes further: one Markdown text field, edited inline in Account → Personality, where you write free-form instructions for how Elowen should behave — tone, priorities, things to avoid, anything you'd tell a new collaborator. It's empty by default and autosaves as you type.

There's no per-platform split and no named or activatable profiles — a single personality body applies identically everywhere your brain runs: web chat, elowen chat, Discord, Telegram, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, and scheduled cron turns. Runtime knobs (models, thinking level) stay in the Elowen AI section, so personality and mechanics never tangle.

Your profile & identity links

Account → Profile is the personal side of the page: your display name, email and avatar.

Two fields here are more than cosmetic — they link an external identity to your Elowen account, which is what lets the owner persona and per-user memory work off-web:

• Discord user ID — maps your Discord user to this account, so your Discord messages resolve to you (and, for the channel owner, drive the Discord persona).
• WhatsApp number — the same mapping for WhatsApp.

Both live in your personal settings and autosave as you type.

Language

The language switcher in the sidebar footer flips the whole Web UI between English, Čeština and Slovenčina. It's a per-device setting stored in your browser, so each device keeps its own choice. It changes the interface text only — the assistant's conversation language follows whatever language you write in.

Visual effects

Account → Profile has a motion control with four levels:

The setting is per device. Lower it if animations distract you, make the app feel heavy on older hardware, or trigger motion sensitivity; Auto is the right default for most people since it respects the OS preference you already set.

UI scale

The UI scale slider in Account → Profile zooms the whole app from 80 % to 150 % in 5 % steps — per device, like the language.

The zoom you actually get has two factors: an automatic base that shrinks the interface proportionally once the window is narrower than 1900 px (never below 70 %), multiplied by your slider value. When the two differ, the control shows both numbers so you can see why the result isn't exactly what you dragged to. Push the slider up on a small laptop screen to claw the zoom back, or down on a large monitor to fit more on screen.

Terminal appearance

Every web terminal — the advisor dock, session cards, the pop-out — honours a per-user look set in Account → Terminal, with a live preview and autosave:

• Font — size and family (System, Menlo, IBM Plex, Courier).
• Cursor — block / bar / underline, with optional blink.
• Theme — auto follows the app theme, or custom unlocks a full 21-colour palette (with ready-made presets).
• Scrollback — how much history each terminal keeps.
• Show thinking in CLI — whether the agent's reasoning is streamed in the terminal.

Push notifications

Because the agent runs autonomously, you want to know the moment it needs you. Elowen supports PWA push notifications over the VAPID protocol.

1. Subscribe — Account → Notifications → enable on this device. Subscription is per device, so each phone or laptop opts in on its own.
2. Events — mission escalations, needs_input signals, stalls, and completions.
3. Actions — inline buttons let you respond straight from the notification.
4. Service worker — a bundled service worker handles incoming push events and clicks.

Inline action buttons

This is the human-in-the-loop gate at your fingertips — approve an escalation or steer an agent without opening the app. See Autonomy & Safety for how autonomy levels L0–L3 decide when the agent stops to ask.

Memory

The embedded brain can remember across conversations, and Account → Memory puts both halves of that under your control as per-user toggles (both on by default):

• Auto-recall — before each reply, your most relevant durable memories are injected under your message, so the assistant already knows your standing context.
• Auto-save — after a turn, a curator persists genuinely new, reusable facts to your account.

They're read fresh each turn, so flipping one applies to your very next message, and they cover web chat, elowen chat and your own verified Discord messages. For the deep dive on what gets remembered, embeddings, and searching your store, see Memory & Embeddings.

Next: Tasks & Missions