Overview

The General tab contains application-wide settings for appearance, your default Codex profile, Git preferences, workspace storage, notifications, message input, and tags.

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Appearance

Customise how the application looks and feels:

• Theme - Choose between Light and Dark colour schemes
• Language - Select your preferred language (Browser Default follows your system language)

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Default Codex Profile

Set the host-local Codex profile that Jaidu uses when it launches Codex without another saved profile choice. This profile controls advanced process behaviour such as sandbox mode, approval level, reasoning effort, and prompt extensions.

• Profile - Choose the default Codex profile such as DEFAULT, SAFE, or HIGH_REASONING
• Profile behaviour - Each profile can set sandbox mode, approval level, reasoning effort, and prompt extensions

This is separate from workspace runtime presets. Use Workspace Runtime Presets to choose workspace skills and MCP resources.

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Git

Configure git branch naming and workspace storage preferences.

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Branch Prefix

Set a prefix for auto-generated branch names. When you create a new workspace or task, Jaidu automatically creates a git branch for your changes.

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Workspace Directory

Specify the base directory where the selected host stores workspace data. New workspaces are created under that host-managed workspace directory.

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Notifications

Configure how Jaidu alerts you about workspace progress and status changes.

• Sound Effects - Play audio notifications when tasks complete or need attention
• Push Notifications - Receive browser notifications when Jaidu is not in focus

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Telemetry

Enable or disable telemetry data collection to help improve Jaidu.

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Message Input

Choose the keyboard shortcut to send messages in the chat input (Enter or ⌘/Ctrl + Enter).

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Tags

Create reusable text snippets that can be inserted into workspace prompts and follow-up messages using @tag_name.