Modes

Cloud or Local

The backend is where your conversations and the agent’s runs are kept. Choose it at the top of the window.

• Cloud keeps them with your HarumAI account, so they are there on any device you sign in to.
• Local runs the HarumAI engine on your own computer and keeps everything in a database there. It checks your account with HarumAI when it can, and keeps working for up to 7 days without that check. Manage it in Settings, Backend Engine.

Conversations made on one backend stay on that backend.

Chat modes

• Auto reads each message and picks the right way to answer: a quick explanation, reading an image, or real work in your project.
• Plan reads your code and writes a plan without changing any file. Approve the plan and the same chat builds it.
• Build works directly on your project: edits files and runs commands, within your permission level.

Permission levels

The permission level decides what the agent may do without asking:

• Ask First asks before any tool that changes something.
• Accept Edits lets file edits through and still asks before commands.
• Full Access allows everything, including destructive actions. It is never saved: closing HarumAI returns to Ask First.

Each project also has a command sandbox level (Read only, Workspace or Full access) in Edit project. In WSL and over SSH, commands run in a sandbox that can only write inside your project. Edits to Git’s internal files and to HarumAI’s own settings always ask, whatever the level.