Environment and credentials¶

Most work can begin with the defaults. Settings store credentials, integrations, runtime variables, compute connections, and instructions beyond a single thread.

Personal and organization scope¶

Open the account menu and choose Settings:

Personal settings apply to your work and credentials.
Organization settings provide shared defaults and controls.

Personal settings apply to one member. Organization settings apply to the organization and require Admin or Owner access to change.

GitHub connections are personal. W&B and Hugging Face connections can be personal or shared at organization scope.

Custom instructions¶

Use Custom instructions for evaluation, coding, safety, or reporting guidance that applies across work. Put requests for one thread in that thread.

Personal instructions apply to your threads; organization instructions set the shared default. Never include secrets.

Integrations¶

Personal integrations include:

GitHub for browsing and attaching repositories you can access
Weights & Biases for training runs and metrics
Hugging Face for private or gated models and datasets

Current personal integration cards for GitHub, Weights & Biases, Hugging Face, and Tinker

Organizations can share W&B and Hugging Face connections. GitHub remains personal.

Public resources need no connection. Private resources require a connection with access to them.

Environment variables¶

Use Environment variables for runtime configuration such as API keys. Values are masked after saving.

A personal value overrides a same-named organization value.

The current environment-variable form with name and value fields

Never paste a secret into a thread, plan, report, repository, or support message.

Storage¶

Personal settings → Storage groups experiment files by organization, folder, thread, and experiment. Choose Refresh, then expand the hierarchy to find what uses space.

Storage cleanup is permanent. Deleting intermediate files can affect later report inspection and follow-up work. Confirm the deletion scope before continuing.

Compute¶

On-demand compute is ready for most organizations. Admins and Owners can link more options under Organization settings → Compute. Cluster usage shows dedicated infrastructure utilization.

See Compute for the complete workflow.

Next step¶

Continue with Start a thread.