docs/customize/model-roles/intro.mdx
chat: Used for chat conversations in the extension sidebarautocomplete: Used for autocomplete code suggestions in the editoredit: Used to generate code based on edit instructionsapply: Used to decide how to apply edits to a fileembed: Used to generate embeddings used for vector search (@Codebase and @Docs context providers)rerank: Used to rerank results from vector searchThese roles can be specified for a config.yaml model block using roles. See the YAML Specification for more details.
You can control which of the models in your config for a given role will be currently used for that role. Above the main input, click the 3 dots and then the cube icon to expand the Models section. Then you can use the dropdowns to select an active model for each role.
roles are not explicitly defined within config.json (deprecated) - they are infered by the top level keys like embeddingsProvider