Concepts
GuideLayer settings & features
Short reference for every major area inside GuideLayer — what it does, where it lives, and what to expect before you open Settings on your Mac.
Core experience
Tutor Mode
Tutor Mode lets you choose how GuideLayer teaches, from light next-step guidance to doing the task with you or for you.
Privacy Center
Privacy Center shows capture, voice route, encrypted history, blocked apps, active provider route, and incognito status at a glance.
Learning Library
Learning Library keeps saved sessions, tutorials, cheat sheets, practice checklists, and searchable app-aware learning memory together.
Skill Review
Skill Review explains what a learned skill can do before you decide whether GuideLayer may run it.
Account & usage
Settings
Basic
Basic gathers everyday GuideLayer defaults, voice status, permission status, and common controls.
Advanced Providers
Advanced Providers manages provider credentials, voice services, Agent Mode defaults, and external service configuration.
Computer Use
PermissionsComputer Use configures GuideLayer's in-app computer-use backend, pointing models, focused-window context, and cuaDriver route.
Permissions
PermissionsPermissions shows the macOS access GuideLayer needs for voice, screen content, pointing, and system automation.
Dependencies
Dependencies checks the external tools GuideLayer needs for local voice and Agent Mode paths.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard Shortcuts lists each user-facing action, what it does, and its customizable key binding.
Agent & system
Agents
Agents manages specialist GuideLayer agents with their own memory, instructions, skills, and tools.
Learned Skills
Learned Skills holds skills Agent Mode wrote from your activity until you review and approve them.
Automations
Automations schedules prompts and workflows by interval or cron, optionally tied to a specialist agent.
System & Logs
System & Logs brings together Google Workspace, persistent memory folders, logs, widgets, and utilities.
Models
Models manages offline model installs and the local inference runtime that prepares models for GuideLayer.
History
History manages conversation retention, screenshot saving, excluded apps, and local history browsing.
See it on your Mac
These concepts map to sections inside GuideLayer Settings.