Verbosity
How much a bot narrates while it works — whether you get the answer alone, or the answer plus what it did to get there.
This is the one conversation-level preference Mesa has, and it is set in the conversation with a command, not on a settings page.
Levels
| Level | What you get |
|---|---|
SILENT | No unsolicited messages. Critical errors only. |
QUIET | Results and important warnings. |
DEFAULT | Essential messages. |
VERBOSE | Additional context and explanations. |
VERY_VERBOSE | Step by step, including debug information. |
VERBOSE is the useful one when a bot is doing something you did not expect and you want to see
its working. SILENT suits a busy group where a bot narrating itself is noise.
Setting it
/verbosity show the current setting
/verbosity status the same
/verbosity set global VERBOSE everywhere
/verbosity set agent image_agent QUIET
/verbosity set platform telegram VERBOSE
/verbosity set tool generate_image VERBOSE
/verbosity reset back to defaults
Four things can be targeted independently — the global default, a named agent, a platform, or a single tool. That is what makes it worth using: you can turn one noisy tool down without making the whole bot terse.
What Mesa does not have
Worth stating, because it has been documented as existing:
- No per-conversation language setting. The bot answers in the language you write in, as an effect of the model, not as a configured preference.
- No personality or tone setting. Tone comes from the instructions written into an agent definition, which is an admin-console change, not a per-chat one.
- No notification preferences. Mesa does not send you notifications to configure.
The table of per-chat preferences that used to appear here described a feature that was removed; the storage behind it had no readers and was retired.
Light and dark
The theme switcher on this documentation site is part of the site, not the product. The web app follows its own styling and has no theme control.