Agent Settings controls how the current Agent works and which generation confirmations ChatCut may skip. Open it from the sliders button beside Agent at the lower-left of the Prompt composer.
Open Agent Settings
- Open the AI panel.
- Make sure the composer is in Agent mode.
- Select the sliders button labeled Agent settings beside the mode selector.
The button is not the Video settings control used in Video Gen mode.
Thinking Mode
Turn Thinking Mode on when the Agent should spend more effort planning a complex, multi-step edit. Turn it off for a simpler task when the control is available.
Some selected agents or models require thinking. In that case, the switch remains on and ChatCut explains why it is locked.
Desktop agent options
When a selected Desktop agent supports them, Agent Settings also shows its model and reasoning-effort controls. If those controls are absent, the agent manages them automatically. See ChatCut Desktop to choose ChatCut, Claude Code, or Codex CLI.
Motion Graphics Quality
Choose Speed, Balance, or Quality under Motion Graphics Quality:
- Speed: fastest iteration and simpler results.
- Balance: the default tradeoff between speed and quality.
- Quality: best results and the slowest option.
Generation Auto-Allow
Open Generation Auto-Allow to manage automatic approval separately for Motion Graphics, Video Generation, and Image Generation. An entry marked Global applies to all projects; otherwise the preference applies to the current project.
Turning a switch off restores the matching confirmation flow. This setting controls approval, not whether the action uses credits or whether the current account can access the feature.
The confirmation card itself is explained under Generation Confirmations and Auto-Allow.
How does the Agent remember things?
ChatCut can keep a short memory of how you work, so you do not have to repeat yourself. It remembers things like who you make videos for, how a series should end, or a correction you gave once. Memory is shared across the web app, ChatCut Desktop, and connected agents, and it follows your account rather than one project.
Depending on your account, memory may start switched on or off until you choose. To check it, open the Memory page and look at the Use memory switch:
- On the web: open Memory from the account menu.
- In ChatCut Desktop: open Settings, then Memory.
When Use memory is off, the Agent cannot read saved memories and does not save new ones. If you ask it to remember something, it tells you to turn memory on first.
There is no list to browse or edit by hand. You manage memories by talking to the Agent. After it saves, changes, or removes a memory, it tells you in one sentence what it did and which videos the memory applies to, so you can widen, narrow, or remove it.
- Save something: say “remember that my product videos always end on the logo.”
- Check: ask “what do you remember about my captions?”
- Remove something: say “forget my caption preference.”
The Agent saves at the reach your words support. A one-off instruction stays in the current chat. “From now on” or “always” becomes a default for what you named. It does not save credentials, other people’s private details, or guesses about your taste. Memory never overrides your settings or paid-generation approvals.
Remember that my vlog captions should be one size smaller than the default, for all my vlogs.