Vinci Work keeps its settings in one menu, and a handful of keyboard shortcuts get you around the app quickly.
Opening Settings
Press Cmd+, (Mac) or Ctrl+, (Windows/Linux). This is the fastest way in.
You can also click Settings, the item with the gear icon at the bottom of the sidebar.
What's in Settings
Settings opens on General. Use the menu to move between sections:
- General — where Settings opens: an overview linking to Permissions, Notifications and Appearance, plus Send feedback, Contact support and Report an issue
- Permissions — your approval mode, which decides when Vinci pauses to ask before it runs a tool
- Notifications — whether Vinci Work sends you desktop notifications
- Skills — create and manage reusable instructions for the workspace folder you're working in; these stay on your computer and are separate from the skills in your Vinci account on the web and mobile
- Appearance — theme (light/dark/system), language, and an option to hide the title bar
Choosing your model
AI Providers is where you pick the model Vinci Work uses. You do not need the Settings menu to get there: click the model badge in the composer, or press Cmd/Ctrl+K and choose Switch model. Both open the same screen.
Updates and Recovery
Two more screens live in the command palette rather than the Settings menu. Press Cmd/Ctrl+K and search for them by name:
- Updates — check for and install app updates
- Recovery — three repair actions for when something is misbehaving: reset a project's settings to their defaults, repair the cache, and clean up leftover data
Quick keyboard shortcuts
- Cmd/Ctrl+, — Open Settings
- Cmd/Ctrl+K — Open command palette
- Cmd/Ctrl+N — New session
- Cmd/Ctrl+B — Toggle the sidebar
- Cmd/Ctrl+J — Toggle terminal panel
- Cmd/Ctrl+F — Find in current conversation
- Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+F — Search all sessions
- Cmd/Ctrl+T — Next session tab
- Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+T — Previous session tab
- Cmd/Ctrl+1–9 — Switch to workspace by number (sidebar order)
- Cmd+[ and Cmd+] on Mac, Alt+Left and Alt+Right on Windows and Linux — Back to the previous surface and forward again