Configuration

Settings are stored at ~/.coder/config.json. Created with defaults on first launch; editable directly to add providers or models without opening the settings UI.

{
  "api_keys": {
    "fireworks": "fw-...",
    "xai": ""
  },
  "providers": {
    "fireworks": {
      "default": "accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-v4-flash",
      "models": [
        { "id": "accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-v4-flash", "label": "DeepSeek-V4-Flash ($0.45)", "contextWindow": 164000 }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Where things live under `~/.coder/`

Path	Purpose
`config.json`	API keys, model lists, editor preferences, keybindings
`harness.md`	Guardrails always appended to the system prompt, see AI Agent
`prompts/*.md`	Custom prompts, see AI Agent
`skills/<name>/SKILL.md`	Progressive-disclosure skills, see Skills
`connections/databases.json`	Global database connections, see Databases
`connections/sftp.json`	Global SFTP connections, see SFTP
`themes/<id>/ui.css`, `editor.json`	Custom themes, see Themes
`recorder.db`	Full request/response recordings, see Reports
`global-board.json`	Master Board cards not tied to any project, see Master Board
`projects/{id}/token-log/{date}.jsonl`	Per-round token logs, see Token Usage Dashboard
`projects/{id}/debugger/{timestamp}.jsonl`	Recorded debug sessions, see Debugger
`docs/`	This documentation, mirrored from the public coder-docs repo

Per-project files

Path	Purpose
`{project-root}/board.json`	Kanban board, see Kanban Board
`{project-root}/connections/databases.json`	Project-scoped database connections
`{project-root}/connections/sftp.json`	Project-scoped SFTP connections
`{project-root}/.coder/memory/*.md`	AI project memory, see AI Agent
`{project-root}/.coder/orchestration/runs/<runId>/`	Orchestrator run data, see Orchestrator

Tech Stack

Electron 42
React 18 + TypeScript
Vite 8 (Rolldown bundler)
Monaco Editor (fully bundled, no CDN dependency)
Zustand 5
AI SDK v6 (ai + @ai-sdk/fireworks), 8 providers: Fireworks, xAI (Grok), Anthropic, Cerebras, Baseten, Together AI, OpenAI, OpenRouter
react-markdown + remark-gfm + remark-math/rehype-katex (math rendering)
node-pty + xterm.js (terminal)
ripgrep (project search)
ws + micromatch (Live Reload)
better-sqlite3 + mysql2 + pg + mongodb + ioredis (Databases panel, five engine drivers, all running in the main process)
ssh2 (SFTP panel, SSH/SFTP client, runs in the main process)
Go LSP sidecar (language intelligence, see Language Intelligence)

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Core

Data & Files

Planning

Customization

Where things live under `~/.coder/`

Per-project files

Tech Stack

​Where things live under ~/.coder/

​Per-project files

​Tech Stack

Where things live under `~/.coder/`

Per-project files

Tech Stack