Flexible Setting configuration

[jacob314]

What would you like to be added?

Way for users to edit all settings in settings.json likely by integration with code editors.

The simplest way to support this is to provide a schema for settings.json so that code editors like VSCode can provide appropriate autocomplete and error checking to help users avoid entering invalid json and easily understand what settings are available.

Why is this needed?

We are adding an increasing number of settings to settings.json most of which the user has no easy way of modifying and which most users are not aware of.

With proper changes we can make it automatic to generate.

1. Markdown documentation describing all available settings.
2. Json schema so that tools like VSCode can provide a good json editing experience.
3. Potentially in the future add UI in Gemini CLI either surfaced as an electron app or directly in the CLI to edit all settings or all simple settings.

We already have code today to validate the settings.json files are valid that should be extended to support these additional use cases.

Additional context

No response

[gsquared94]

Found possible duplicate issues:

• #3657: (#0.9043005704879761)

[cornmander]

I would consider a different approach here. Rather than allowing users to directly edit the settings.json we could also treat it as an opaque implementation detail and expose a dedicated UX to edit settings, such as with sub-commands in the CLI invocation or slash commands in the UI. By having a layer of indirection here we can change the underlying config format, names of fields, etc. in a way that would be hard otherwise. Just a thought.

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Found possible duplicate issues:

• #5302
• #4642
• #3657

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