[Feature Request] Customizable prompt and output colors

Status Closed — not planned
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Activity 13 comments · opened Jun 25, 2025 · closed Jan 10, 2026

While we are able to change the theme for Claude in terminal, I have a suggestion to add further customizations. During long sessions, it is hard to distinguish user's input vs output provided. Please see screenshots:

<img width="1549" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7cb3ee3e-07e1-4b02-be30-0e5570e7a3ec" />

Maybe it can be nested here in /config

<img width="2468" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/52a6d29d-5f03-49c1-aa2f-6b0ed6db6087" />

  • User prompt styling: foreground/background color, prepending symbol

Thank you for consideration!

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13 Comments

davek-ai · 1 year ago

Agreed.

A slight improvement might be to add a bit more styling to the '>'.

salavatkhafizov · 1 year ago

If customization is long way to go, at least I would suggest highlighting user message with some color, such as Yellow.

bl-ue · 1 year ago

tweakcc can customize your Claude Code themes. A feature to customize the user input in the history is a great idea!

banifou · 1 year ago

Yes please, we need some customization features for user inputs!

salavatkhafizov · 1 year ago

1) Suggest some settings to highlight USER messages in colors (now they are dim).
2) Suggest setting to compact interim messages, final output message should be displayed full
3) Suggest tools/commands to navigate inside the chat - jump to the previous user message, jump inside the index of user messages.
4) Suggest tools to highlight code lines, file names and important conclusions (yes, I see them in Claude and Codex).

bl-ue · 11 months ago

Hi everyone (@lanadz-shopify, @banifou, @salavatkhafizov, @davek-ai, @kukula, @mykola-kyryk, @andressamachado, @gavin-hinchley, @jb-, @kelly-anthis, @getvega).

I've added a feature to tweakcc that lets you customize the way past messages in your Claude Code session are displayed. Just run npx tweakcc and go to the Input box section; see this comment for an screenshot. Demo:

<img alt="Claude Code with customized user message display and the border around the input box removed" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f239bbac-f37a-441f-a6af-570da8139082" />

MartinGonzalez · 11 months ago

+1

DanBtt · 11 months ago

+1

Hoejsgaard · 10 months ago

+1.. would love to be able make my output a bit more structred

<img width="985" height="426" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7ab5e2ed-958d-460d-9c14-ec50f6e3003c" />

fono-byborg · 10 months ago

+1

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