Features

Cydonia ships with most of itself switched off. A fresh install shows articles and boards and runs nothing; the rest appears once you ask for it, in Settings › Features or in ~/.config/cydonia/settings.toml:

[features]
sessions = false   # agent conversations
boards = true      # cards in columns
tables = false     # structured records

Feature	Default	What it gates
sessions	off	Agent conversations, and every agent this machine would run
boards	on	Cards in columns or as a list
tables	off	Structured records

sessions is the one that matters. A session is the only thing that starts an agent, and an agent is a package this machine downloads and runs, so the switch is the gate over that as much as over the pane. Nothing runs until it is on — see Getting started.

Boards are on because a board is files in the project and nothing runs to hold one.

Articles have no switch.

Right panel

The right panel's tabs have switches of their own:

[features.panel]
review = true    # the working tree's changes
files = true     # the project's file tree
browser = true   # web pages

The terminal is always there. Linux builds have no browser, and browser does nothing there.

Turning a feature off hides it. Nothing on disk is deleted, and turning it back on shows what was there.