Core settings — MCP server & indexing
Editor Preferences → Plugins → Shovel — mission control for the whole plugin. Toggle the embedded MCP server, pin or auto-select its port, re-index the project and engine source in one click, and flip on Fab, Sketchfab, Poly Haven, ambientCG, Quaternius and VRoid Hub as asset sources — plus per-module switches for Blueprint, Material, Animation, Niagara and more.
Zero external services
One-click re-index
Built-in asset marketplaces
Per-module toggles
Safety gates & generative AI providers
Action Gates lock editor restarts and compiles behind configurable timeouts, so a runaway AI loop can't wedge the editor. Tool Presets scope exactly which capabilities are exposed, and dedicated Asset, Audio and Video Generation panels wire in Meshy, Tripo, fal.ai, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Stable Audio and Fish Audio — each with its own session credit cap, so nothing runs up a surprise bill.
Crash-safe by design
Curated tool presets
Bring your own AI providers
Bounded spend per session
Reflection Intel — decision & risk mining
Mines your own markdown docs and git history to surface hidden file coupling, gated by a confidence threshold and a mass-commit file-count filter so bulk refactors don't throw off the signal — alongside project-level C++ reflection indexing and network replication auditing.
Learns from your git history
Confidence-gated
Filters out noisy commits
C++ reflection aware
UI module — generated styles & limits
Configures the ShovelUI module: one reviewable path for AI-generated styles and library components, a max nesting depth so generated widget trees can't spiral out of control, and cache caps that keep repeat generations fast.
Path-scoped output
Runaway-spec guardrail
Fast repeat generation
