configuration.md

🔧 Configuration

To change Mentat's configuration, create .mentat_config.json in the git root of the project you are running Mentat for. Alternatively, creating ~/.mentat/.mentat_config.json will create a default user config that Mentat will use if no config exists in your current git project.

Options

Allow 32k

Allow Mentat to use OpenAI's gpt-4 32k context window model. Your API key must already have access to the model.

{
    "allow-32k": true
}

File Exclude Glob list

List of glob patterns to exclude files from being read/edited by Mentat. These take effect whenever you provide Mentat with a directory as an argument. Mentat will add all files in the directory that are not in your .gitignore and do not match these glob patterns. Glob patterns are interpreted from the git root location. If you wanted to exclude all files ending in .py, the pattern to use would be **/*.py rather than *.py. Here is an example that would exclude all hidden directories and files:

{
    "file-exclude-glob-list": ["**/.*, **/.*/**"]
}

Input Style

A list of key-value pairs defining a custom Pygment Style to style the Mentat prompt.

{
    "input-style": [
        [
            "",
            "#9835bd"
        ],
        [
            "prompt",
            "#ffffff bold"
        ],
        [
            "continuation",
            "#ffffff bold"
        ]
    ]
}