Teammate colors: allow changing after start, per-teammate /color, and a more legible blue
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Activity 0 comments · opened Oct 15, 2026
Summary
Teammate (agent teams) display colors can't be chosen or changed, and the default blue is hard to read on dark terminals.
Requests
- Allow changing a teammate's color after it has started. Today the color is fixed at spawn.
- Per-teammate
/colorcommand, e.g./color wix-qb red, so the user can recolor any teammate. - Make the default teammate blue legible. On a dark terminal theme (WSL2 / Windows Terminal), the blue teammate text is very hard to read.
What I tried
- Asked for a named teammate to be shown in red. No setting or tool exists to choose the color.
- Edited
colorin~/.claude/teams/<session>/config.jsonbefore and immediately after spawning. It had no effect: messages still render blue. - Shutting the teammate down and respawning it gives blue again, since the first teammate in a session is always blue.
- Red never appears among 60+ local team configs; the only colors seen are blue, green, yellow, purple, orange and pink.
Environment
- Claude Code 2.1.x, WSL2, Windows Terminal, dark theme