AI preferences

Settings

The Profile screen has an AI preferences section that lets you control how every AI agent connected to Prodgy behaves while talking to you. The values you set here are read by AI clients (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop, the Prodgy Assistant, etc.) through the MCP tool get_my_profile at the start of each session.

What you can customize

• Personal AI instructions — a free Markdown text where you write rules the AI must follow on top of any project context. Example: “Always answer in pt-BR. Always show a TL;DR at the end of long answers. Never use emojis.”
• Confirm before destructive AI actions — a switch that, when ON, forces every AI agent to ask you for explicit confirmation before invoking write tools (anything starting with update_ or delete_, including integration tools). Read-only tools (get_*, list_*, search_*) do not require confirmation.

How to edit your AI preferences

1. Open Settings
2. Click on Profile
3. Scroll to the AI preferences card, located right below the Password section (and above the Danger Zone)
4. The card opens expanded by default as an accordion — click the AI preferences header to collapse it later once you’ve configured it
5. Inside the card, the Personal AI instructions (Markdown) sub-accordion also opens expanded by default with the editor visible — write your directives and click Save to persist (or Cancel to discard the draft)
6. Toggle Confirm before destructive AI actions (right below the instructions editor) to require explicit confirmation before any write/delete operation done by AI agents on your behalf.

Note

The AI preferences card is an accordion — after configuring, just click its header to collapse it and keep the profile screen tidy. Your preferences remain active even with the card closed.

Tip

You can also ask the AI itself to update these preferences for you. Just say “Always answer in pt-BR” or “Stop asking me before deletes” and the agent will call update_my_ai_preferences to save it (after confirming with you). When the AI notices you keep repeating the same routine 3 or more times in a session, it may also suggest saving it as a permanent preference.

Tips for writing good AI instructions

• Keep instructions prescriptive (“always do X”, “never do Y”, “respond in language Z”). Descriptive facts about you (your team, your projects, your history) belong elsewhere — Prodgy will offer a memories tool for those in the future.
• The text accepts Markdown — feel free to use bullet lists or headings to organize multiple rules.
• Empty the editor and click Save to clear all personal instructions.

When destructive-action confirmation is in effect

When the switch is ON, AI agents will pause before:

• Updating work items, integrations, or any other resource.
• Deleting items, comments, branches, etc.
• Running write tools provided by external integrations (Slack send_message, Jira create_issue, etc.).

Read-only operations (searching the knowledge base, listing work items, fetching agent details) are not affected.

For questions or issues, consult Prodgy support or the official documentation.