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Settings

Settings holds your preferences for the orchestrator — open it from the sidebar. Most of it is per-user (your secrets, Nucleus instructions, theme); the DevBox Security profiles are tenant-level — shared across your team. The page is organised into the sections below (the right-hand nav jumps between them).

API keys and tokens for external services. Values are encrypted at rest and are only ever handed to your running DevBox instances and Nucleus — never shown back to you once saved (you replace a value by pasting a new one).

Each credential you add can be switched on for one or both uses:

  • Use for Nucleus (Bring Your Own Key) — route Nucleus’s own requests through your key. See Bring your own key below.
  • Use for DevBox authentication — make the token available inside the DevBoxes you launch (for example a GitHub token so an agent can push and open PRs).

Nucleus is built on Anthropic (Claude) models. Every plan includes a monthly AI allowance, but you can add your own credential for additional usage beyond your plan — or to run entirely on your own account. Two options:

  • Anthropic API key — billed to your Anthropic account, used directly for Nucleus requests.
  • Claude OAuth token — routes Nucleus through your personal Claude Code subscription. Make sure your usage complies with Anthropic’s terms.

Paste the key under Secrets, then enable Use for Nucleus (Bring Your Own Key). See also AI Credits for how plan allowance and BYOK interact.

Customize Nucleus’s behavior with a personal instruction file — a NUCLEUS.md, conceptually like a CLAUDE.md. Use it to set tone, standing preferences, or project context the assistant should always keep in mind. You can edit it inline and reset it back to the default at any time.

Pick the app theme: Light, Dark, or System (follow your OS). The choice applies immediately and persists on this device.

Two groups of settings for your DevBoxes:

Display

  • Hide external and system DevBoxes — show only the DevBoxes managed by ClusterCode, hiding anything else running on your workers.

DevBox Security — configure your tenant’s security profiles. Each tenant defines a default security profile applied to every DevBox launched on its workers (it governs what the DevBox can reach — egress, allowed domains, and so on). You’ll see one card per tenant you belong to, showing its current default profile and your role; from here you set that default. You can still override the profile or add extra allowed domains per DevBox at launch time. Changing the tenant default requires the right role (e.g. owner/admin).

Control which email notifications you receive:

  • DevBox Alerts — DevBox lifecycle events (created, started, stopped, deleted).
  • Worker Alerts — worker connection and disconnection events.

Billing & Plan and Account notifications are always on — they cover events you shouldn’t miss (payment, plan changes, account security).

Shows the running application version (click to copy) — handy when reporting an issue so we know exactly which build you’re on.

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