Settings

Open Settings from the app sidebar. Preferences are stored locally on this machine — nothing syncs anywhere.

Appearance

Theme — AccessVault currently ships a dark theme only. The selector (Auto / Dark / Light) is disabled with the note “Light theme coming soon.”

Default refresh cadences for new connections and tabs. Number fields commit when you press Enter or click away.

Setting	Default	Notes
Overview refresh	30 seconds	How often the Overview tab re-fetches its stats.
Monitoring interval	10,000 ms	Auto-refresh cadence for the Monitoring tab (minimum 1,000 ms).
Audit log read limit	5,000 lines	Maximum audit entries loaded into the Audit Log viewer (minimum 100).

Manage the Anthropic API key used by the AI tool generator:

Add key / Manage key opens the key dialog. Keys start with sk-ant-; get one from console.anthropic.com.
The key is stored in the macOS Keychain — never written to disk in plaintext. The UI only ever shows a redacted label.
The key is sent to api.anthropic.com and nowhere else, and only when you use the tool generator.

Share anonymous telemetry — off by default. In the current beta this checkbox stores a preference only: no telemetry collection or transmission code exists yet, so nothing is sent either way. AccessVault makes no network calls except the opt-in Anthropic feature above.

Shows the app name and version, and a link to the repository.

App data is stored under ~/Library/Application Support/com.accessvault.dev/:

File / directory	Contents
`connections.json`	Connection profiles (no secrets — passwords live in the Keychain).
`catalogs/`	One JSON catalog of MCP tools per connection.
`policies/`	Data exposure policy rules.
`audit.jsonl`	The append-only audit log.
`audit_readiness/`	Per-connection audit-readiness state (environment tag + accepted risks).
`preferences.json`	The settings on this page.
`runtime.json`	Current session’s port, bearer token, and PID — rewritten each launch.