How to: Customize Warp's Appearance

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