# Your account and preferences

The **You** group of Settings holds what belongs to you rather than to a workspace. It follows you into every workspace you belong to. To open Settings, press **Settings** at the bottom of the sidebar, then **Settings** in its menu, or press ⌘, (Ctrl+, on Windows and Linux).

Settings lists **You** first, then **Workspace**, with the sections of one workspace at a time:

| Group | Sections |
| --- | --- |
| You | Account, Security when shown, AI Providers, Skills, Plugins, Integrations, API keys, Devices, Appearance, Preferences, Signature, and Memory |
| Workspace | General, Members, AI Providers, Skills, Plugins, Integrations, Activity, Usage, Billing |

The workspace picker under **Workspace** shows the workspace's tile and name. Press it for a list with a search field, every workspace you belong to, your waiting **Invitations** with **Join**, and **New workspace**. The current workspace has a check. Picking another workspace keeps the section you are on, or opens General when you were in a You section. The address keeps the workspace you picked.

In the phone layout, on an iPhone or in a narrow window, **Signature** sits after **Preferences** in the **You** group. Open it to change the same default and see the previews. See [Desktop app and mobile](https://kosuke.ai/docs/help/desktop-and-mobile.md#use-kosuke-on-a-phone).

Shift+Tab steps through the You sections, then the picked workspace's, and back to the start.

These pages write a workspace's section as Settings > your workspace > Members. The You group also holds [AI Providers](https://kosuke.ai/docs/workspace/ai-providers.md), [Skills](https://kosuke.ai/docs/skills.md), [Plugins](https://kosuke.ai/docs/plugins.md) and [Integrations](https://kosuke.ai/docs/workspace/personal-integrations.md), each on its own page. Settings > You > Preferences holds **Notifications from Sensei** for the device you are on.

## Account

Settings > You > Account holds your profile. Your GitHub Connection is in [Settings > You > Integrations](https://kosuke.ai/docs/workspace/personal-integrations.md).

To change your picture:

1. Press **Change Picture** and pick a JPG, PNG or WebP image up to 2 MB.
2. In Adjust profile picture, crop and zoom the image.
3. Press **Save**.

To change your name, edit Name and press **Save Changes**. Email Address shows the address you sign in with, and you cannot change it here.

### Delete your account

1. Under Danger Zone, press **Delete account**.
2. Type your email address and press **Delete account**.

This deletes your account, your API keys, your GitHub Connection, your own integrations and every card you published from an Overview. Any workspace where you are the only member is deleted too, with its projects and tasks. The dialog names those workspaces before you confirm. It cannot be undone.

If you signed in with Apple, Sensei also revokes its access to your Apple Account. To be sure, remove Sensei from Sign in with Apple in your Apple Account settings.

Sensei refuses while you own a workspace that has other members. Transfer ownership to another member, or delete that workspace, first. See [Members and roles](https://kosuke.ai/docs/workspace/members-and-roles.md). It also refuses while a workspace it would delete has an unpaid invoice or usage still being billed.

## Appearance

Settings > You > Appearance offers **Light**, **Dark** and **System**. Sensei starts in Dark. System follows your computer's setting.

## Preferences

Settings > You > Preferences holds **FYI messages**, **Message watching**, **Notifications from Sensei** and **Automatic runs**. On a phone, Preferences holds FYI messages, Message watching and Automatic runs.

| Preference | Choices | Default | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FYI messages | Right away, Every 30 min, Every hour, Twice a day | Every 30 min | Messages that need nothing from you wait, then reach you together on one FYI card. FYIs never send a notification. |
| Message watching | On or off for each of Slack, Gmail, Telegram, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and X you connected | Off for every service | Sensei reads new messages only on the services you turn on. |
| Automatic runs | On or off for each run | On for every run | Sensei runs one for you only while it is on. |

No setting changes how agents write to you. Your Sensei fits its explanations to your background and to the topic: it reads what it knows about you from your [Memory](https://kosuke.ai/docs/workspace/memory.md). Agents in chat sessions and deploy chats write for developers.

### Message watching

**Message watching** chooses which messaging services Sensei watches for you. The row counts only the services Sensei really watches, on and connected: it reads the service's name when one is, how many when more are, such as **3 services**, **Paused** when the only services on are paused, and **Off** otherwise.

1. Press **Message watching**. A picker opens with one switch for each of Slack, Gmail, Telegram, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and X.
2. Turn a service on or off. Each switch saves on its own.
3. Close the picker with its close icon, by clicking outside it, or with Escape.

Only a service you connected in [Settings > You > Integrations](https://kosuke.ai/docs/workspace/personal-integrations.md) can be turned on. Every service stays in the list:

- **Not connected**: the service is greyed out and its switch is locked off. Hover or focus the unplug icon beside its name to read where to connect it, or tap it on a touch screen; click it, or tap it again, to open Integrations at that service.
- **Paused, not connected**: the service is on, but it has no connection now, or every connection of it needs you to sign in again. The switch stays on in grey and your choice is kept. Once you connect or reconnect the service, Sensei watches it again by itself, from that moment on. You can still turn a paused service off.

If a save fails, the switch keeps its previous value, the picker says the service is unchanged, and **Try again** retries the change. If the service lost its connection meanwhile, for example on another device, the picker says Sensei cannot watch it and **Connect** opens Integrations at that service.

The choice is yours, per service, and the same on every device and in every workspace you belong to. It is not a setting of one connected account: every account you connect for a service follows it, accounts you connect later too. Every service starts off, whatever Sensei watched before Message watching existed.

- **On** watches only messages that arrive from the moment you turn the service on. Earlier messages, including those that arrived while it was off, are never fetched or replayed by themselves.
- **Off** pauses Sensei's automatic reading of the service, and the cards and FYIs it would make from new messages. Messages and cards you already have stay. Nothing is deleted or marked read.

Turning a service off disconnects nothing. Your connections stay in [Settings > You > Integrations](https://kosuke.ai/docs/workspace/personal-integrations.md#message-watching), and Sensei can still use the service's tools when you ask, for example to read a Slack channel.

### Notifications from Sensei

Turn **Notifications from Sensei** on for a notification on this device when a card needs you. FYIs stay on the page. If your browser blocks notifications, allow them in its site settings. A browser without notification support shows a disabled switch.

### Automatic runs

**Automatic runs** lists the background work Sensei runs for you on a schedule, with one switch for each. Each row shows its name and its schedule, on your own clock, or **Off**. Press its (i) to read what it does. The (i) beside **Automatic runs** says what off means.

| Name | Schedule | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Work check | Weekdays at 09:00 and 15:00 | Shows the work that needs you now. |
| Cron ideas | Mondays at 07:00 | Proposes crons from what you often ask. |
| Writing style | Mondays at 06:00 | Learns how you write, so drafts sound like you. |
| How you found Kosuke | Weekdays at 10:00 | Asks once how you found Kosuke. Skip or an answer ends it. |

Every run starts on, and one Sensei adds later starts on too. The choice is yours, and the same on every device and in every workspace you belong to. A switch moves at once, and the other switches wait until its save ends. If a save fails, the switch goes back and a message says so. Move the switch again to retry.

- **Off** stops the next run for you. A run that started finishes. Its thread, its cards and any file it wrote stay, and a line under the list says what is off. With Writing style off, your `writing.md` stays as it is and stops updating.
- **On** brings it back. Work check waits for its next time. Writing style and Cron ideas run within minutes if you missed their Monday, then keep their schedule.

## Signature

Settings > You > Signature holds **Sign as Sensei**. It is on by default and follows you across workspaces. While it is on, every message Sensei, a chat session, a Cron or a watch sends as you ends with a marker: `[Sensei]` on its own line after a blank line in Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, LinkedIn and X, or `Sent by Sensei` in Gmail, a draft Sensei writes included. A message the marker would take past a network's length limit is not sent: the agent is told to shorten it. Messages you send with your own API key, tickets, pull requests and commits are not signed. Turn it off to send them as written.

The **Preview** section shows a Slack message and a Gmail email. Both change as you move the switch. If saving fails, the switch returns to its previous value and **Try again** retries the change.

A reply card has its own **Sign as Sensei** switch under **Your reply**, starting from your saved default. Change it for that reply without changing Settings. The draft shows the marker that **Send** will include.

## API keys

Create API keys for the Sensei CLI, the MCP server and the API in Settings > You > API keys. [Authentication](https://kosuke.ai/docs/api/authentication.md) explains how.

The same section lists your Connected Apps under **Connected apps**. These are the AI apps, such as Claude or ChatGPT, that you allowed to act as you through the [MCP server](https://kosuke.ai/docs/interfaces/mcp.md). Press **Disconnect** to cut one off. Its next call is refused.

## Devices

Settings > You > Devices lists everything signed in as you that Sensei can cut off: your Macs, your iPhones and iPads, then your Watch and glasses. Press **Remove** on one to sign it out. It shows in the iOS app too, under **Devices** in Settings.

**Macs** lists each Mac with the Sensei desktop app signed in. A Mac that has never signed in, or that you removed, is not listed. Each row shows:

- The name of the Mac, and **This Mac** on the Mac you are looking from in the desktop app.
- A status: **Online** while the Mac is connected and [Sensei](https://kosuke.ai/docs/automate/sensei.md) can use it, **In use by Sensei** while Sensei is working on it, **In use by a task** while a task you allowed is working on it, and **Offline** otherwise. The list keeps itself current while it is open.
- The version of the desktop app, when the Mac was added if it is online, or when it was last seen if it is offline, and "not connected yet" for a Mac that never connected.

The list does not show the Mac's macOS permissions. Sensei reads them itself: without Accessibility or Screen Recording, it cannot use the tools that need them and says which permission is missing when it tries.

Press **Remove** and confirm to remove a Mac. Sensei stops using it at once. The desktop app on that Mac is signed out and shows sign-in. Signing in again on that Mac adds it back to the list.

Removing the Mac you are on also signs you out of the desktop app on it. Signing in again adds it back.

**iPhone and iPad** lists each iPhone and iPad where the Sensei iOS app is signed in and allowed notifications. Each row shows **This iPhone** or **This iPad** on the one you are using, the version of the app and when it was last used. **Remove** stops its notifications at once and ends its sign-in, with no confirmation. The app on it can still show what it already loaded for up to 5 minutes. Sensei also asks that iPhone or iPad to take down your most recent Sensei notifications from its lock screen and Notification Center. It sends this request only to the device you removed, never to your other devices. This is best effort, not a remote wipe: iOS can delay or drop the request, and an iPhone or iPad that is off or offline, or where the app was swiped closed, can keep showing them. Remove does not erase anything else on the device. Removing the iPhone or iPad you are on asks first, then signs you out of the iOS app. Signing in again adds it back.

**Watch and glasses** lists the ones you signed in with a code from your Sensei account, with when each was last used. **Remove** signs one out at once, with no confirmation. Signing in on it again adds it back.

If a remove fails, a message says so and the row stays. Press **Remove** again.

### Chrome sign-ins

Sensei browses in the background in its own Chrome on your Mac, with no window. It uses the website sign-ins of the Chrome profiles you allow. Your Chrome stays yours. Sensei's tabs don't appear in it, and Sensei doesn't move your tabs or mouse. Recordings in a thread show Sensei's pages, not your screen. Both browsers act on the same online accounts, so a message Sensei sends is sent from your account. Sensei uses any site this way, LinkedIn and X included. Before it sends, posts or does anything else on a site for you, it checks the signed-in account, the recipient and the exact content against what you asked for, and afterwards it checks the page before it says it worked.

Press **Chrome sign-ins** on a Mac to choose the profiles Sensei may use. On a phone, the Mac's **Chrome sign-ins** row shows how many are allowed. The Mac must be online, with a current desktop app and Google Chrome installed. Otherwise the screen says which one is missing.

Every Chrome profile on the Mac is listed, including the ones Sensei has never used. Each has a switch.

- **Allowed** lets Sensei use the profile. It doesn't mean every site is signed in. Sensei checks a site when it opens it.
- **Off** means Sensei can't use the profile. Turning a profile off asks first. Sensei stops browsing with it, and Sensei deletes the sign-ins Sensei saved from it on that Mac. Your Chrome stays signed in.

A profile is allowed until you turn it off, and it stays off until you allow it again. When you allow it, Sensei takes its sign-ins from your Chrome the next time it browses with it.

When Sensei's browser is signed out of a site that your Chrome is signed in to, Sensei picks the sign-in up from your Chrome on that profile by itself, without opening Chrome, and checks the account in its own browser before it goes on. You see one line, such as "Signed in to LinkedIn as Ada", and no card. If the account is not the one the thread used, Sensei removes it again and asks whether to continue as that account.

A card appears only when that is not enough, for example because your Chrome is not signed in to the site. Press **Sign in with Chrome** on it. The site opens in your Chrome on the Mac, where you sign in as usual, with Google, a passkey or a saved password. Sensei notices the sign-in by itself, on any site. A change on the site in your Chrome only makes Sensei look at the site in its own browser, so it keeps waiting until it sees you signed in. Once it does, it checks the account there and goes on. If Sensei can't confirm the sign-in by itself, it says so and a second card appears. Press **I'm signed in** on it once you are signed in. Sensei then checks the account again. Google's own sites, such as Gmail and YouTube, get no card. When a site only refuses access, with no sign-in page, Sensei tells you what the page shows and asks for no sign-in.

Signing out of a site in your Chrome may also sign Sensei out of it. If a change fails, a message says so and the profile stays as it was.

## Security

When your Settings show a Security section, it holds Cookie Preferences. Press **Manage** to choose which analytics and tracking cookies Sensei may set.

## Next steps

- [Connect your own Subscription](https://kosuke.ai/docs/workspace/ai-providers.md).
- [Make a change without writing code](https://kosuke.ai/docs/guides/change-without-code.md).

See [Memory](https://kosuke.ai/docs/workspace/memory.md) to read and edit what Sensei remembers about you.