Normal and advanced view
The Windows app opens in the normal view. The advanced view adds the controls a technical user wants. This page lists exactly what changes, what never changes, and how to switch.
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The Windows app has two views. The normal view is the everyday app and is what a new install shows. The advanced view adds settings and controls for people who want to decide more themselves. The assistant is the same in both.
Switching
Open Settings ▸ General and turn Advanced view on or off. The change applies at once. The switch says Shows more settings and controls, and the details of each step. The assistant is the same in both views.
What the advanced view adds
| Where | In the normal view | In the advanced view |
|---|---|---|
| Settings tabs | General, Connectors, Shortcuts | Also Advanced, with the Secure engine sandbox card (it shows the state and has no switch), Allow Web Fetch without asking and Default permission mode |
| Settings ▸ General | No Use memory switch | Adds Use memory |
| Settings ▸ Connectors | Connectors and the agent browser's basic settings | Adds tool policies (On, Off, Confirm), rules for hooks, What the browser may do, and Custom MCP servers |
| Chat, above the message box | Just the message box | Adds an Agent or Ask button and a permission button |
| Chat, Activities panel | Steps and files | Adds, when there is something to show, an Always allowed: list of permissions you gave, each with a way to remove it, and a context meter that shows how much of its working room the chat has used |
| Chat, answered approvals | An approval card disappears from the conversation once you have answered it | It stays |
| Copy chat and Export chat | Leave out Haruno's reasoning | Include it |
| Hooks | Says that rules are set up in the advanced view | Offers Manage integration rules |
| Scheduled | The task form does not mention Bypass | Says that scheduled runs never use Bypass |
What the normal view fixes
One thing is decided for you in the normal view.
- It always uses Auto and Agent mode. Auto means Haruno decides which actions are safe to run without asking. Agent means it can use tools in your project. Ask mode, a chat without tools, needs the advanced view.
What never changes
- The assistant, its instructions and what it can do.
- The isolated space. Haruno works in a sandbox in both views. It keeps a task within the folders it was given, and nothing turns it off. See The sandbox.
- Settings you made in the advanced view. Tool policies, rules for hooks and tools you set to Off or Confirm keep applying after you switch back. The normal view only hides the controls.
- Your chats, projects and connectors.
If you turn the advanced view off while the Advanced tab is open, Haruno takes you back to the General tab.
Most finance users stay in the normal view. It asks for approval where it matters. Both views work in the isolated space, and neither has a switch for it. If a customer cannot find a permission button or Custom MCP servers, they are in the normal view.