Tips & Tricks
A collection of quick tips to help you get the most out of PostQode.
- Drag PostQode to the Secondary Sidebar so you can see the Explorer, Search, Source Control, etc.
- Once you have PostQode in a separate sidebar from the file explorer, you can drag files from the explorer into the chat window (and even multiple at once). Just make sure to hold down the shift key after you start dragging the files.
- If you're not using MCP, turn it off in the Prompts tab to significantly cut down the size of the system prompt.
- To keep your custom agents on track, limit the types of tools and files that they're allowed to touch.
- If you hit the dreaded
input length and max tokens exceed context limiterror, you can recover by rolling back to a previous checkpoint, running/compact, or switching over to a long-context model. - In general, be thoughtful about your
Max Thinking Tokenssetting for reasoning models. Consider allocating high thinking budgets during Plan Mode for architectural analysis, while using lower thinking budgets during Agent Mode for fast code execution. - Delegate complex exploratory subtasks or specialized routines using Built-in & Custom Agents so that large terminal outputs and investigations run without polluting your primary task.
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- To manage large files and reduce context/resource usage, adjust the
File read auto-truncate thresholdsetting. This setting controls the number of lines read from a file in one batch. Lower values can improve performance when working with very large files, but may require more read operations. You can find this setting in the PostQode settings under 'Advanced Settings'.