lovelace config

View and manage all CLI configuration settings

The config command provides a unified interface for viewing, editing, and managing all Ada CLI configuration, including LLM providers, default settings, workspace preferences, and system paths.

Overview

Configuration management enables:

View all settings - Display complete configuration
Update settings - Modify individual configuration values
Provider management - Configure LLM provider settings
Workspace defaults - Set default workspace and preferences
Path configuration - Customize storage locations
Validation - Verify configuration is valid

All configuration is stored in ~/.lovelace/config.json with human-readable JSON format.

Usage

bash

lovelace config [command] [options]

Subcommands

`lovelace config show`

Display current configuration.

bash

lovelace config show [options]

Aliases: list, get

Options:

Option	Description	Default
`--json`	Output in JSON format	`false`
`-k, --key <key>`	Show specific configuration key	All settings
`--providers`	Show only provider configuration	`false`
`--paths`	Show only path configuration	`false`

Interactive Example:

$ lovelace config show

Ada CLI Configuration
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

LLM Providers:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Default: anthropic

  Anthropic Claude:
    Status: ✓ Configured
    Default Model: claude-sonnet-4-5
    API Key: sk-ant-api03-****....**** (configured)

  OpenAI GPT:
    Status: ✓ Configured
    Default Model: gpt-4
    API Key: sk-****....**** (configured)

  Ollama (Local):
    Status: ✓ Running
    Endpoint: http://localhost:11434
    Default Model: llama2

Workspace Settings:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Default Workspace: personal-projects
  Auto-Save Sessions: Yes
  Session History Limit: 100

Paths:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Config: ~/.lovelace/config.json
  Data: ~/.lovelace/data/
  Logs: ~/.lovelace/logs/
  Sessions: ~/.lovelace/sessions/

General Settings:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  CLI Version: 1.0.0
  Auto Update Check: Enabled
  Telemetry: Disabled
  Editor: vim

Show Specific Key:

$ lovelace config show --key defaultProvider

defaultProvider: anthropic

JSON Output:

bash

$ lovelace config show --json

{
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "defaultProvider": "anthropic",
  "providers": {
    "anthropic": {
      "defaultModel": "claude-sonnet-4-5",
      "apiKeyConfigured": true
    },
    "openai": {
      "defaultModel": "gpt-4",
      "apiKeyConfigured": true
    },
    "ollama": {
      "endpoint": "http://localhost:11434",
      "defaultModel": "llama2"
    }
  },
  "workspace": {
    "default": "personal-projects",
    "autoSave": true,
    "historyLimit": 100
  },
  "paths": {
    "config": "~/.lovelace/config.json",
    "data": "~/.lovelace/data/",
    "logs": "~/.lovelace/logs/",
    "sessions": "~/.lovelace/sessions/"
  },
  "general": {
    "autoUpdateCheck": true,
    "telemetry": false,
    "editor": "vim"
  }
}

Provider-Only View:

$ lovelace config show --providers

LLM Provider Configuration
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Default Provider: anthropic

Configured Providers:
  ✓ Anthropic Claude (claude-sonnet-4-5)
  ✓ OpenAI GPT (gpt-4)
  ✓ Ollama (llama2)

`lovelace config set`

Update configuration values.

bash

lovelace config set <key> <value> [options]

Options:

Option	Description
`--global`	Set global configuration (default)
`--workspace`	Set workspace-specific configuration

Examples:

$ lovelace config set defaultProvider openai

✓ Updated defaultProvider: openai
✓ Configuration saved

Default LLM provider changed to OpenAI GPT

Set Nested Value:

$ lovelace config set providers.anthropic.defaultModel claude-opus-4-8

✓ Updated providers.anthropic.defaultModel
✓ Configuration saved

Set Multiple Values:

$ lovelace config set workspace.autoSave false
$ lovelace config set workspace.historyLimit 50

✓ Updated 2 configuration values
✓ Configuration saved

Boolean Values:

$ lovelace config set general.telemetry true

⚠️  Enable Telemetry
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Telemetry helps improve Ada CLI by collecting:
  • CLI command usage (anonymous)
  • Error reports (no personal data)
  • Performance metrics

No code, prompts, or conversation data is collected.

Continue? (Y/n): y

✓ Telemetry enabled
✓ Configuration saved

`lovelace config unset`

Remove configuration values (restore defaults).

bash

lovelace config unset <key>

Example:

$ lovelace config unset general.editor

✓ Removed general.editor
✓ Restored to default: $EDITOR or vim

`lovelace config reset`

Reset configuration to defaults.

bash

lovelace config reset [options]

Options:

Option	Description
`--all`	Reset all configuration
`--providers`	Reset only provider configuration
`--confirm`	Skip confirmation prompt

Interactive Example:

$ lovelace config reset --all

⚠️  WARNING: Reset All Configuration
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

This will reset all CLI configuration to defaults:
  • Provider settings (API keys will be preserved)
  • Workspace preferences
  • General settings
  • Custom paths

Current configuration will be backed up to:
  ~/.lovelace/config.json.backup

Type 'reset' to confirm: reset

✓ Configuration backed up
✓ Configuration reset to defaults
✓ API credentials preserved

Run 'ada setup' to reconfigure providers.

Reset Providers Only:

$ lovelace config reset --providers

⚠️  Reset Provider Configuration
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

This will reset:
  • Default provider
  • Model selections
  • Provider-specific settings

API keys will be preserved.

Continue? (y/N): y

✓ Provider configuration reset
✓ Credentials preserved

Run 'ada setup' to reconfigure providers.

`lovelace config edit`

Open configuration file in editor.

bash

lovelace config edit

Interactive Example:

$ lovelace config edit

Opening configuration in vim...

[Editor opens with ~/.lovelace/config.json]

{
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "defaultProvider": "anthropic",
  "providers": {
    "anthropic": {
      "defaultModel": "claude-sonnet-4-5"
    }
  },
  "workspace": {
    "default": "personal-projects",
    "autoSave": true
  }
}

[After saving and closing]

Validating configuration...
✓ Configuration valid
✓ Changes saved

Validation Errors:

$ lovelace config edit

[Edit and save invalid JSON]

✗ Configuration validation failed:
  • Line 5: Unexpected token '}'
  • Invalid JSON syntax

Configuration NOT saved.
Fix errors and try again, or run: lovelace config reset

`lovelace config validate`

Validate configuration file.

bash

lovelace config validate [options]

Options:

Option	Description
`--fix`	Attempt to auto-fix issues
`--verbose`	Show detailed validation results

Valid Configuration:

$ lovelace config validate

Validating Configuration
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

✓ JSON syntax valid
✓ Schema valid
✓ Provider configuration valid
✓ Paths exist and are writable
✓ No deprecated settings

Configuration is valid!

Invalid Configuration:

$ lovelace config validate

Validating Configuration
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

✗ Configuration has errors:

JSON Syntax:
  ✓ Valid

Schema:
  ✗ defaultProvider: "invalid" is not a valid provider
    Valid options: anthropic, openai, ollama

Providers:
  ✗ providers.anthropic.defaultModel: "invalid-model" not recognized
  ✓ providers.openai: Valid

Paths:
  ✗ paths.logs: Directory does not exist: /invalid/path
  ✓ Other paths: Valid

Deprecations:
  ⚠️  workspace.maxSessions is deprecated, use workspace.historyLimit

Fix issues manually or run: lovelace config validate --fix

Auto-Fix:

$ lovelace config validate --fix

Validating and Fixing Configuration
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Found 3 issues:

✓ Fixed: defaultProvider reset to "anthropic"
✓ Fixed: Created missing logs directory
✓ Fixed: Migrated workspace.maxSessions → workspace.historyLimit

⚠️  Could not auto-fix:
  • providers.anthropic.defaultModel: "invalid-model"
    Manual fix required: Set to valid model

Configuration partially fixed. Review remaining issues.

`lovelace config path`

Show configuration file locations.

bash

lovelace config path [options]

Options:

Option	Description
`--config`	Show config file path only
`--data`	Show data directory only
`--logs`	Show logs directory only
`--all`	Show all paths (default)

Example:

$ lovelace config path

Configuration Paths
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Config File:    ~/.lovelace/config.json
Data Directory: ~/.lovelace/data/
Logs Directory: ~/.lovelace/logs/
Auth Directory: ~/.lovelace/auth/
Sessions:       ~/.lovelace/sessions/
Workspaces:     ~/.lovelace/workspaces/

Specific Path:

$ lovelace config path --config

/Users/username/.lovelace/config.json

Common Use Cases

View Current Configuration

Check all settings:

$ lovelace config show

[Complete configuration displayed]

Change Default Provider

Switch from Anthropic to OpenAI:

$ lovelace config set defaultProvider openai

✓ Default provider changed to OpenAI GPT

Change Default Model

Update model for a specific provider:

$ lovelace config set providers.anthropic.defaultModel claude-opus-4-8

✓ Model updated

Disable Telemetry

Turn off usage tracking:

$ lovelace config set general.telemetry false

✓ Telemetry disabled

Find Configuration File

Locate config file for manual editing:

$ lovelace config path --config

/Users/username/.lovelace/config.json

Validate After Manual Edits

Check configuration after editing:

$ vim ~/.lovelace/config.json
[Make changes]

$ lovelace config validate

✓ Configuration is valid

Reset Corrupted Configuration

Restore defaults if config is broken:

$ lovelace config reset --all

✓ Configuration reset
✓ Backup created

Configuration Schema

Complete Configuration Structure

json

{
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "defaultProvider": "anthropic",
  "providers": {
    "anthropic": {
      "defaultModel": "claude-sonnet-4-5",
      "temperature": 0.7,
      "maxTokens": 4096
    },
    "openai": {
      "defaultModel": "gpt-4",
      "temperature": 0.7,
      "maxTokens": 4096
    },
    "ollama": {
      "endpoint": "http://localhost:11434",
      "defaultModel": "llama2"
    }
  },
  "workspace": {
    "default": "personal-projects",
    "autoSave": true,
    "historyLimit": 100
  },
  "paths": {
    "config": "~/.lovelace/config.json",
    "data": "~/.lovelace/data/",
    "logs": "~/.lovelace/logs/",
    "sessions": "~/.lovelace/sessions/"
  },
  "general": {
    "autoUpdateCheck": true,
    "telemetry": false,
    "editor": "vim",
    "colorOutput": true
  }
}

Configuration Keys Reference

Key	Type	Description	Default
`defaultProvider`	string	Default LLM provider	`"anthropic"`
`providers.<name>.defaultModel`	string	Default model for provider	Provider-specific
`providers.<name>.temperature`	number	Model temperature (0-1)	`0.7`
`providers.<name>.maxTokens`	number	Maximum tokens per request	`4096`
`workspace.default`	string	Default workspace name	`"default"`
`workspace.autoSave`	boolean	Auto-save session history	`true`
`workspace.historyLimit`	number	Max session history entries	`100`
`general.autoUpdateCheck`	boolean	Check for CLI updates	`true`
`general.telemetry`	boolean	Send anonymous usage data	`false`
`general.editor`	string	Preferred text editor	`$EDITOR` or `"vim"`
`general.colorOutput`	boolean	Enable colored terminal output	`true`

Configuration Storage

Configuration files and their purposes:

~/.lovelace/
├── config.json              # Main configuration
├── config.json.backup       # Automatic backup
├── auth/                    # Authentication data
│   └── credentials.enc      # Encrypted API keys
├── workspaces/              # Workspace-specific configs
│   ├── personal-projects.json
│   └── work.json
└── .config-version          # Config schema version

Environment Variables

Configuration can be overridden via environment variables:

Variable	Description	Example
`LOVELACE_CONFIG_PATH`	Custom config file location	`~/custom/config.json`
`LOVELACE_DEFAULT_PROVIDER`	Override default provider	`openai`
`LOVELACE_EDITOR`	Override editor	`code --wait`
`NO_COLOR`	Disable colored output	`1`

Note: Environment variables take precedence over config file.

Exit Codes

Code	Meaning
`0`	Command succeeded
`1`	Configuration error
`2`	Validation failed
`3`	Invalid arguments

Troubleshooting

Configuration File Corrupted

Error: Failed to parse configuration
Syntax error in ~/.lovelace/config.json

Solution:
1. Validate: lovelace config validate
2. Reset: lovelace config reset --all
3. Restore backup: cp ~/.lovelace/config.json.backup ~/.lovelace/config.json

Invalid Provider Configuration

Error: Invalid provider: "invalid"
Valid providers: anthropic, openai, ollama

Solution:
$ lovelace config set defaultProvider anthropic

Permission Denied

Error: Cannot write to ~/.lovelace/config.json
Permission denied

Solution:
$ chmod 644 ~/.lovelace/config.json
$ ls -la ~/.lovelace/config.json

Missing Configuration File

Warning: Configuration file not found
Creating default configuration...

✓ Created ~/.lovelace/config.json
✓ Run 'ada setup' to configure providers

Related Commands

ada setup - Interactive provider configuration wizard
ada doctor - Diagnose configuration issues
ada workspace - Manage workspace settings

Related Guides

Getting Started Guide - Initial configuration setup
Provider Configuration - Detailed provider setup

See the Command Reference for all available commands.

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lovelace config

Overview

Usage

Subcommands

`lovelace config show`

`lovelace config set`

`lovelace config unset`

`lovelace config reset`

`lovelace config edit`

`lovelace config validate`

`lovelace config path`

Common Use Cases

View Current Configuration

Change Default Provider

Change Default Model

Disable Telemetry

Find Configuration File

Validate After Manual Edits

Reset Corrupted Configuration

Configuration Schema

Complete Configuration Structure

Configuration Keys Reference

Configuration Storage

Environment Variables

Exit Codes

Troubleshooting

Configuration File Corrupted

Invalid Provider Configuration

Permission Denied

Missing Configuration File

Related Commands

Related Guides