# How to: Customize Warp's Appearance

Customize Warp's themes, input placement, AI settings, codebase indexing, team collaboration, and visual appearance to fit your workflow.

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Warp is highly customizable — from appearance and keyboard shortcuts to agent behavior and autonomy.  
  
Here’s a quick walkthrough of how to make Warp feel like *your* development environment.

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### 1\. Changing Themes

Open the **Command Palette** with:

-   `Cmd + P` (Mac)
-   `Ctrl + Shift + P` (Windows/Linux)

Type **“themes”** to open the theme picker.

You can preview and apply any theme instantly — for example, switching from the default theme to *Phenomenon*.

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### 2\. Adjusting Input Placement

Warp’s **input bar** can live in three different positions:

1.  **Bottom-pinned** — chat-style; commands flow upward.
2.  **Scrolling input** — traditional terminal style; input stays near the bottom as output moves up.
3.  **Top-pinned** *(Warp-exclusive)* — input stays fixed at the top; results appear below.

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### 3\. Managing AI & Agent Settings

Open **Settings → AI** to control:

-   Which **model** Warp uses (e.g., Claude 3.5 for code generation, GPT-4o for planning).
-   How much **autonomy** agents have for:
    -   Reading files
    -   Generating diffs
    -   Running commands
    -   Planning tasks

You can also whitelist or block specific commands that always require confirmation.

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### 4\. Indexing Your Codebases

Warp prompts you to index your codebase the first time you `cd` into it.  
Indexing enables faster:

-   Code navigation
-   Summaries and searches
-   Refactors and bug fixes

You can also manually re-index a folder from the sidebar anytime.

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### 5\. Team Collaboration

In the Teams tab, you can:

-   Invite teammates
-   Share Warp Drive assets like prompts, templates, and environment variables

This makes Warp a shared, contextual workspace — not just an individual tool.

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### 6\. Look & Feel

Under Appearance, you can tweak:

-   Fonts
-   App icons
-   Padding and editor density
-   VIM mode for command editing
-   Custom key bindings