[BUG] [FEATURE REQUEST] VS Code extension greys out chat history during confirmation prompts — no way to disable

Preflight Checklist

• [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
• [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
• [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

When the Claude Code VS Code extension asks for confirmation via a button-click prompt (e.g. applying edits), the UI greys out all previous messages except the most recent one, making them all difficult to read. Frequently the most recent message is just a short item describing the trigger for the prompt.

This makes it difficult to:

• review context
• compare earlier instructions
• verify what Claude is acting on

In particular this significantly compromises the extension's usefulness when trying to learn from the conversation.

My most disruptive experience was of it was when asking claude to explain in steps how unit testing is implemented and used. It kept trying to create files as part of the process. The explanations were all several messages in the past and were greyed out as I was trying to read them. It took quite a bit of explanation to get claude to understand that it should ask before making these attempts so that I could read the content. For that and a few other reasons it was a frustrating and unpleasant experience.

There doesn’t appear to be a setting or theme option to disable this behavior.

Request:
Please add an option to disable dimming/focus mode during confirmation prompts.

Environment:

• VS Code version: 1.107.1
• Claude Code extension version: 2.0.75
• OS: Windows

What Should Happen?

At minimum the user should be able to change a setting so that conversation entire history is always displayed at full contrast. A more comprehensive solution might be to allow a range of options to control the presentation of older history during prompts.

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

1. Spend time discussing something with claude
2. Request something that requires a file-write
3. A prompt will open asking to click for permission to write the file
4. All history bar the most recent message will be "greyed out"

Claude Model

Sonnet (default)

Is this a regression?

No, this never worked

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

2.0.74

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

Windows

Terminal/Shell

Other

Additional Information

Low contrast text example:
<img width="698" height="784" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/
assets/78a2148a-762d-4475-9990-16358a741729" />