Preferences

App-wide settings, separate from any project. Open with Cmd+, (macOS, under Caddis → Settings…) or Ctrl+, (Windows, under Edit → Preferences…). Changes apply immediately — there's no Save step — and persist per machine.

Appearance

Text Size

Scales text throughout the interface, from 100% up to 140%. The default is the size the UI was designed at; step up if you find labels and parameter values too small. Only type scales — panels, controls, and spacing keep their size, and the viewport and node graph (which have their own zoom) are unaffected.

Text Contrast

Default keeps the design's muted label palette. High brightens labels, secondary text, and input values across the app for readability — surfaces, accents, and semantic colors are unchanged, so the app still looks like itself.

Hide AI features

Removes the optional AI surfaces from the interface: the Tokens balance in the top bar and the AI category in the node menu — browsing, search, connect-mode suggestions, and the Node Shortcuts picker. It only changes what you can create: AI nodes already in a project keep working, stay editable, and can still be copied or duplicated. Off by default. Agent Access (the Agents tab) is a separate setting and is unaffected.

Shortcuts

Rebind any keyboard shortcut: every command is listed by area (Transport, Tools, Node Graph, Timeline, …) with its current binding. See the Keyboard Shortcuts reference for the defaults.

• Rebind — click a shortcut, then press the new key combination. Esc cancels the recording. Recording the default combination simply removes the customization.
• Search — filters by command name, area, or the binding itself.
• Conflicts — if the keys you press are already used by another command in the same context, nothing changes until you decide: Take Over moves the shortcut here (the other command loses it — becoming unbound if it was its only binding), Keep Both assigns it while leaving the other in place (legitimate when context separates them — with keyframes selected H sets Hold interpolation, otherwise it's the Pan tool), or Cancel. Bindings scoped to different panels never conflict.
• Reset — the Reset button next to a customized binding restores that command's default (including unbound ones); Reset All restores everything.
• Fixed shortcuts — menu-bound file actions (Save, Open, New…) and structural keys (Escape, Undo/Redo) can't be rebound yet, Take Over can't claim their keys, and the recorder refuses to assign a menu combination (like Ctrl/Cmd S) to another command — the menu intercepts those keys before they could ever reach it.

Customizations are stored per machine and survive updates — anything you haven't customized follows the app's defaults as they evolve.

Node Shortcuts

Bind a key combination directly to a node type — press it with the node graph focused and that node is created at your cursor, with the same auto-wiring as the creation menu. For nodes you reach for constantly (Alt T for Transform 2D, Alt B for Blur…), this skips the menu entirely.

• Add — search for a node in the Add a node shortcut field (the same forgiving search as the node menu), pick it, then press the keys.
• Change / remove — click an assigned binding to re-record it, or the × to remove it.
• Conflicts — the recorder refuses combinations already used inside the node graph (and menu-reserved ones). A combination used by a global command elsewhere is allowed: inside the node graph the node shortcut wins, everywhere else the global command keeps working.

Node shortcuts are stored per machine, like everything else here.

Agents

Controls Agent Access — the opt-in local MCP server that lets AI agents (like Claude Code) inspect and edit your open project. Off by default; when enabled, the tab shows the endpoint status, the port, and a copy-ready command for connecting Claude Code. See Agent Access (MCP) for the full guide.