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In this video, Joseph asks Delta to configure itself to use Ollama as a custom OpenAI-compatible provider. It all happens in the thread, without Joseph ever touching Settings.

19/10/26, 12:56 pm0 reposts16 likes

Yash Jain

@earanyash.bsky.social

Neat, but worth noticing it's the agent rewriting its own provider config with no human touching Settings. Convenient right up until it's the wrong provider or a bad key.

Randy Northrup

@randynorthrup.bsky.social

Does the change land in settings.json so it survives a restart, or only for that thread?

Zed

@zed.dev

It alters the global settings, so it persists between threads. We don't directly allow an agent to edit the raw json either, we have a tool that the agent uses to interact with settings, so we can prevent the agent from seeing certain sensitive bits.

Randy Northrup

@randynorthrup.bsky.social

A settings tool beats raw JSON edits. Does the agent show what it's about to change before it saves, or does the user find out from the settings file afterward?