Configuration

The daemon keeps its state in ~/.olace/. Most settings have a first-class home in the app or the CLI; the file is there when you want to look under the hood.

Files under ~/.olace

File	What it is
`daemon.json`	Configuration. The one file you might edit.
`identity.enc`	Encrypted device identity for end-to-end encryption. Do not copy between machines.
`peers.json`, `host_peers.json`	Cached pairing state.
`chats/`	CLI chat sessions (attachments stay where they are; sessions store references).
`logs/daemon.log`	The daemon log, rotated.
`bin/`	The daemon binary and the `olace` command.

Settings with CLI commands

Prefer these over editing the file; changes apply within about a second, no restart needed:

olace settings                       # show current settings and live state
olace settings keep-alive 30         # 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, 120, or always
olace settings auto-optimize on      # Flash Attention + KV cache quantization
olace settings context auto          # or a floor: olace settings context 32768

All three also accept --device <host> to configure a paired computer remotely.

daemon.json keys

Key	Default	Meaning
`api_url`	`https://api.olace.app`	Olace backend.
`ollama_url`	`http://localhost:11434`	Where Ollama listens.
`lmstudio_url`	`http://localhost:1234`	Where llmster, LM Studio's headless daemon, listens.
`llamacpp_url`	`http://127.0.0.1:8143`	Where llama.cpp listens.
`llamacpp_managed`	`true`	Olace installs and runs llama.cpp itself. `false` attaches to a server you run.
`llamacpp_binary_path`	empty	Pin a specific `llama-server`. Empty means the build Olace manages.
`local_api_port`	`5577`	Loopback health API port.
`enabled`	`true`	Master switch for daemon duty.
`keep_alive_minutes`	`30`	Model residency in GPU memory. `-1` means always.
`auto_optimize`	`true`	Flash Attention + KV cache quantization where safe.
`local_context_mode`	`auto`	`auto` or `custom` context sizing.
`local_context_target`	`32768`	Requested context floor when `custom`.
`bridge_enabled`	`false`	The Olace Bridge listener.
`bridge_port`	`5578`	Bridge port, 1024 to 65535.
`bridge_api_key`	empty	Bearer key for the Bridge. Empty means no auth, loopback only.
`bridge_cors_origins`	empty	Browser origins allowed to call the Bridge.
`metrics_opt_in`	`false`	Anonymous reliability metrics. Never content, never identifiers.
`log_level`	`info`	`debug`, `info`, `warn`, or `error`. Applies live.

Auth tokens and device identifiers also live in this file; treat it as private. The daemon, the app, and the CLI coordinate writes safely, and a corrupted file is quarantined and rebuilt rather than crashing the service.