diff --git a/packages/backend/src/constants.ts b/packages/backend/src/constants.ts
index 3ede6d4e..3150187e 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/constants.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/constants.ts
@@ -1,27 +1,6 @@
 import { env } from "./env.js";
-import { Settings } from "./types.js";
 import path from "path";
 
-/**
- * Default settings.
- */
-export const DEFAULT_SETTINGS: Settings = {
-    maxFileSize: 2 * 1024 * 1024, // 2MB in bytes
-    maxTrigramCount: 20000,
-    reindexIntervalMs: 1000 * 60 * 60, // 1 hour
-    resyncConnectionIntervalMs: 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24, // 24 hours
-    resyncConnectionPollingIntervalMs: 1000 * 1, // 1 second
-    reindexRepoPollingIntervalMs: 1000 * 1, // 1 second
-    maxConnectionSyncJobConcurrency: 8,
-    maxRepoIndexingJobConcurrency: 8,
-    maxRepoGarbageCollectionJobConcurrency: 8,
-    repoGarbageCollectionGracePeriodMs: 10 * 1000, // 10 seconds
-    repoIndexTimeoutMs: 1000 * 60 * 60 * 2, // 2 hours
-    enablePublicAccess: false, // deprected, use FORCE_ENABLE_ANONYMOUS_ACCESS instead
-    experiment_repoDrivenPermissionSyncIntervalMs: 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24, // 24 hours
-    experiment_userDrivenPermissionSyncIntervalMs: 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24, // 24 hours
-}
-
 export const PERMISSION_SYNC_SUPPORTED_CODE_HOST_TYPES = [
     'github',
 ];
diff --git a/packages/backend/src/index.ts b/packages/backend/src/index.ts
index d4b0f5db..2e2ec569 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/index.ts
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ import "./instrument.js";
 
 import { PrismaClient } from "@sourcebot/db";
 import { createLogger } from "@sourcebot/logger";
-import { hasEntitlement, loadConfig } from '@sourcebot/shared';
+import { getConfigSettings, hasEntitlement } from '@sourcebot/shared';
 import { existsSync } from 'fs';
 import { mkdir } from 'fs/promises';
 import { Redis } from 'ioredis';
 import { ConnectionManager } from './connectionManager.js';
-import { DEFAULT_SETTINGS, INDEX_CACHE_DIR, REPOS_CACHE_DIR } from './constants.js';
+import { INDEX_CACHE_DIR, REPOS_CACHE_DIR } from './constants.js';
 import { RepoPermissionSyncer } from './ee/repoPermissionSyncer.js';
 import { UserPermissionSyncer } from "./ee/userPermissionSyncer.js";
 import { GithubAppManager } from "./ee/githubAppManager.js";
@@ -18,20 +18,6 @@ import { PromClient } from './promClient.js';
 
 const logger = createLogger('backend-entrypoint');
 
-const getSettings = async (configPath?: string) => {
-    if (!configPath) {
-        return DEFAULT_SETTINGS;
-    }
-
-    const config = await loadConfig(configPath);
-
-    return {
-        ...DEFAULT_SETTINGS,
-        ...config.settings,
-    }
-}
-
-
 const reposPath = REPOS_CACHE_DIR;
 const indexPath = INDEX_CACHE_DIR;
 
@@ -57,8 +43,7 @@ redis.ping().then(() => {
 
 const promClient = new PromClient();
 
-const settings = await getSettings(env.CONFIG_PATH);
-
+const settings = await getConfigSettings(env.CONFIG_PATH);
 
 if (hasEntitlement('github-app')) {
     await GithubAppManager.getInstance().init(prisma);
diff --git a/packages/shared/src/constants.ts b/packages/shared/src/constants.ts
index e0bbd29b..42e1aa69 100644
--- a/packages/shared/src/constants.ts
+++ b/packages/shared/src/constants.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { ConfigSettings } from "./types.js";
 
 export const SOURCEBOT_SUPPORT_EMAIL = 'team@sourcebot.dev';
 
@@ -8,4 +9,24 @@ export const SOURCEBOT_CLOUD_ENVIRONMENT = [
     "prod",
 ] as const;
 
-export const SOURCEBOT_UNLIMITED_SEATS = -1;
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+export const SOURCEBOT_UNLIMITED_SEATS = -1;
+
+/**
+ * Default settings.
+ */
+export const DEFAULT_CONFIG_SETTINGS: ConfigSettings = {
+    maxFileSize: 2 * 1024 * 1024, // 2MB in bytes
+    maxTrigramCount: 20000,
+    reindexIntervalMs: 1000 * 60 * 60, // 1 hour
+    resyncConnectionIntervalMs: 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24, // 24 hours
+    resyncConnectionPollingIntervalMs: 1000 * 1, // 1 second
+    reindexRepoPollingIntervalMs: 1000 * 1, // 1 second
+    maxConnectionSyncJobConcurrency: 8,
+    maxRepoIndexingJobConcurrency: 8,
+    maxRepoGarbageCollectionJobConcurrency: 8,
+    repoGarbageCollectionGracePeriodMs: 10 * 1000, // 10 seconds
+    repoIndexTimeoutMs: 1000 * 60 * 60 * 2, // 2 hours
+    enablePublicAccess: false, // deprected, use FORCE_ENABLE_ANONYMOUS_ACCESS instead
+    experiment_repoDrivenPermissionSyncIntervalMs: 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24, // 24 hours
+    experiment_userDrivenPermissionSyncIntervalMs: 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24, // 24 hours
+}
diff --git a/packages/shared/src/index.server.ts b/packages/shared/src/index.server.ts
index ce00642e..566e6718 100644
--- a/packages/shared/src/index.server.ts
+++ b/packages/shared/src/index.server.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ export {
     loadConfig,
     loadJsonFile,
     isRemotePath,
+    getConfigSettings,
 } from "./utils.js";
 export {
     syncSearchContexts,
diff --git a/packages/shared/src/types.ts b/packages/shared/src/types.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b6f6e159
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/shared/src/types.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+import { Settings as SettingsSchema } from "@sourcebot/schemas/v3/index.type";
+
+export type ConfigSettings = Required<SettingsSchema>;
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diff --git a/packages/shared/src/utils.ts b/packages/shared/src/utils.ts
index 69cbc52e..f7c1b56e 100644
--- a/packages/shared/src/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/shared/src/utils.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import { readFile } from 'fs/promises';
 import stripJsonComments from 'strip-json-comments';
 import { Ajv } from "ajv";
 import { z } from "zod";
+import { DEFAULT_CONFIG_SETTINGS } from "./constants.js";
+import { ConfigSettings } from "./types.js";
 
 const ajv = new Ajv({
     validateFormats: false,
@@ -130,3 +132,16 @@ export const loadConfig = async (configPath: string): Promise<SourcebotConfig> =
     }
     return config;
 }
+
+export const getConfigSettings = async (configPath?: string): Promise<ConfigSettings> => {
+    if (!configPath) {
+        return DEFAULT_CONFIG_SETTINGS;
+    }
+
+    const config = await loadConfig(configPath);
+
+    return {
+        ...DEFAULT_CONFIG_SETTINGS,
+        ...config.settings,
+    }
+}
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