diff --git a/dvc/command/experiments.py b/dvc/command/experiments.py
index f4b85e045..7281d6d03 100644
--- a/dvc/command/experiments.py
+++ b/dvc/command/experiments.py
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ class CmdExperimentsInit(CmdBase):
 
         defaults = {}
         if not self.args.explicit:
-            config = {}  # TODO
+            config = self.repo.config["exp"]
             defaults.update({**self.DEFAULTS, **config})
 
         cli_args = compact(
diff --git a/dvc/config_schema.py b/dvc/config_schema.py
index 13d5a73ae..42c5ee37f 100644
--- a/dvc/config_schema.py
+++ b/dvc/config_schema.py
@@ -256,4 +256,13 @@ SCHEMA = {
         Optional("parametrization", default=True): Bool,
     },
     "plots": {"html_template": str},
+    "exp": {
+        "code": str,
+        "data": str,
+        "models": str,
+        "metrics": str,
+        "params": str,
+        "plots": str,
+        "live": str,
+    },
 }
diff --git a/tests/unit/command/test_experiments.py b/tests/unit/command/test_experiments.py
index ca9e6bbd1..1439c9d76 100644
--- a/tests/unit/command/test_experiments.py
+++ b/tests/unit/command/test_experiments.py
@@ -405,3 +405,23 @@ def test_show_experiments(capsys):
         "3000,1,0.5843640011189556,0.9544670443829399,3000,1,20170428,100,36"
         in cap.out
     )
+
+
+def test_experiments_init_config(dvc, mocker):
+    with dvc.config.edit() as conf:
+        conf["exp"] = {"code": "new_src", "models": "new_models"}
+
+    m = mocker.patch("dvc.repo.experiments.init.init")
+    cli_args = parse_args(["exp", "init", "cmd"])
+    cmd = cli_args.func(cli_args)
+
+    assert cmd.run() == 0
+    assert m.call_args[1]["defaults"] == {
+        "code": "new_src",
+        "models": "new_models",
+        "data": "data",
+        "metrics": "metrics.json",
+        "params": "params.yaml",
+        "plots": "plots",
+        "live": "dvclive",
+    }