Documentation
Control Center
The settings app and every panel in it, from Appearance to MCP.
On this page
One window, thirty-one panels
Control Center is TDE's settings app. It opens as an ordinary desktop window —
⚙ Control on the status bar, Control in the Notch, or the Launcher — and
shows a grouped grid of icon tiles. Opening a tile switches the window to that
panel; Esc goes back to the grid.
The grid is fully keyboard-driven: arrows move the selection, Enter opens,
Esc closes, and typing filters the tiles live. Every tile is also a click
target.
Four groups, always in this order:
| Group | What lives there |
|---|---|
| Personal | How the desktop looks and behaves for you. |
| Hardware | Screens, tiling geometry, keyboard layouts. |
| System | The machine, its network reach, its users and schedules. |
| AI & Automation | Everything My Loop, agents and integrations need. |
Anything with its own documentation page is linked below; the rest is described in a line.
Personal
| Tile | control: id | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Appearance | appearance | Pick the active theme from the list of built-ins plus your own theme files, and toggle the boot splash. See Themes. |
| Lock & Privacy | lock | Idle lock on/off, the idle timeout, and lock-on-sleep. |
| Startup Apps | startup | The list of apps launched when the desktop finishes booting, with add and remove. |
| Notch | notch | Enable the Notch, switch to icons-only, and add, edit or remove its items. See Notch, taskbar and launcher. |
Hardware
| Tile | control: id | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Displays | display | Select a connected monitor and change its resolution; falls back to reporting the terminal canvas size in cells when no display tool is available. |
| Tiling | tiling | Overlay bar height, trigger padding, and a toggle per snap target. See Windows and workspaces. |
| Keyboard | keyboard | Add, remove, reorder and activate XKB layouts, and choose the OS-level switch combination. |
System
| Tile | control: id | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Private Network | private_network | Install, bring up and bring down Tailscale, and read back the machine's Tailscale IP and online peers. |
| Web Share | web_share | The share link, its reach, spectator-only and PIN settings, start/stop, the QR code and past sessions. See Web Share. |
| Widgets | widgets | Enable or disable the desktop dashlets, built-in and custom alike. |
| Shortcuts | shortcuts | Rebind every Alt+<key> window-manager shortcut, and tune the Esc leader and its timeout. |
| Users | users | Change your own password, list local accounts with UID and shell, and add, edit or remove them. |
| Crons | crons | The system cron jobs TDE owns — name, schedule and command — with enable, edit and create. |
AI & Automation
| Tile | control: id | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Pipeline | pipeline | Edit a pipeline's title, description and ordered stage list. See Pipeline and stages. |
| Prompts | prompts | The reusable prompt library: titles, bodies, and which pipelines use each one. See Skills, prompts and deliverables. |
| Deliverables | deliverables | The deliverable specs a stage can emit, as editable YAML; built-ins are read-only. |
| Bot | bot | The recurring automations, each showing its agent and schedule, with enable and disable. See Bots. |
| Agents | agents | The configured agents: base CLI, model and attached skills. See Agents and personas. |
| Projects | projects | The projects the desktop knows about, plus a field to clone or import a repository. See Projects and tasks. |
| Devices | devices | The license, the machines on your account with presence and task counts, and the two toggles that decide whether this device runs Bots and the Assistant. See Licensing and sync. |
| TDE Brain | brain | Whether the Brain database backs AI Chat and agents, and a shortcut into My Loop → Memory. See Brain, decisions and recall. |
| Sprints | sprints | Enable sprints, the sprint period, the tasks copilot and the rollover agent. |
| LLM | runtimes | One card per official agent CLI: install state, version, whether it is authenticated by OAuth session or API key, and a login action. |
| Skills | skills | Create and import skills, and see how many agents use each. |
| Guards | guards | The human gate, the maximum diff size, smart effort, and the per-rule toggles — plus custom rules of your own. |
| Concurrency | concurrency | The maximum number of agents allowed to run at once, with a live running/queued readout. |
| Connectors | connectors | Connect and manage third-party services and read their status. See Connectors. |
| Database | database | Named database profiles: engine, MCP key, masked connection URI, on/off and sync. See Data apps. |
| MCP | mcp | Add, import and sync MCP servers, each with its transport and target. See MCP. |
| Plugins | plugins | The curated agent-CLI plugins, with install and update. |
email | Mail accounts (address, IMAP, SMTP, connection status, Bot mode) and the managed My Loop email aliases for this device. See Email and Calendar. |
What gets written where
Panels do not all write to the same place, which matters if you keep your configuration in version control:
| Panel | Persisted to |
|---|---|
| Lock & Privacy, Shortcuts, Tiling, Keyboard, Startup Apps, Appearance's boot splash | ~/.config/tde/config.toml |
| Notch | ~/.config/tde/notch.toml |
| Everything under AI & Automation | TDE's local database, and replicated by sync where licensed |
Related
- Configuration — the file this app edits.
- Themes — the Appearance panel in depth.
- My Loop overview — the other half of the AI & Automation settings.