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Overview

Getting started

Concepts

Using the app

Collaboration

Reference

Settings

The Settings page (in the sidebar) is where you tune how Merget looks, when it commits, and how it hands off to your other tools.

Appearance

Pick Light, Dark, or System (follow the operating system).

Prompt tracking

The auto-track toggle controls whether Merget sets itself up automatically. When it's on and a supported coding tool (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot) starts a session in a folder, Merget initializes committing in that folder so the session's prompts and edits are captured without you doing anything.

When you first reach the dashboard, a consent dialog asks "Track prompts across coding tools?" — it appears on each launch until you answer. Your Yes or No sets this toggle, and you can change your mind here any time.

Commit mode

Commit manually changes when your hand-written edits become steps. Edits made by coding agents are always committed with their prompt regardless of this setting.

  • Off (the default): your edits are committed automatically a few seconds after you stop typing.
  • On: edits are held until you press the Commit button in a repo's toolbar, so one step can cover a whole sitting. A long-idle safety net still commits abandoned work so nothing is lost.

See How Merget works for the full picture of what gets captured when.

Launchers

The Launchers section controls the "open externally" shortcuts in the top bar: toggle the VS Code, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and GitHub Copilot buttons on or off individually. For the coding tools you can also pick a launch mode — Ask every time, open the App, or run the CLI in a terminal. If a tool's desktop app isn't installed on this machine, the App option is grayed out with a note.

Layout

Under the collapsible layout section you can fine-tune sizes:

  • Interface text size — scales all text and layout in the app, with a percentage readout and a reset link. Takes effect immediately.
  • Detail panel width — the goal detail panel in the map view.
  • Chat panel width — the share of the repo page given to chat.
  • Home side panel width — the right column of the repo home view.

Each slider has a matching drag handle in the app itself, and a Reset to defaults button restores everything at once.

Account

Profile changes (your avatar) and Log out live in the user dialog — click your avatar in the sidebar to open it.

The Settings page holds the irreversible one: Delete account, in the Danger zone. You must type your exact username to confirm. Deletion permanently removes your account, your repositories, and your sign-in, and cannot be undone; your past contributions in other people's repos remain but show as "Ghost". See Sync & privacy for retention details.

Per-repo settings

One privacy setting lives with each repository rather than on this page: the repo's settings dialog (open it from the repo card's menu on the Dashboard) has an "Opt out of using this repository to improve Merget" checkbox controlling whether that repo's data may be used to improve Merget — see Sync & privacy for what that covers.

Under the hood

Almost everything on this page is per-machine, not per-account. Theme, layout, and launcher choices are saved in the app's local preferences, so a second computer starts from defaults. The auto-track and commit-mode choices are written to Merget's machine-wide config file — that's how the committing daemon, which runs outside the app, picks them up (commit mode takes effect without a restart). Account deletion and the per-repo data-use opt-out are the exceptions: those are stored server-side with your account and the repo.

Next: Organizations · Related: Sync & privacy · Signing in