Feature request: persist /color setting across sessions
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Apr 1, 2026 by RohanMuppa Closed May 6, 2026
Summary
The /color command (e.g. /color orange) only applies to the current session and resets when Claude Code is restarted. There's no way to make it persistent.
Proposal
Add a "sessionColor" key to settings.json (or similar config) so users can set a default session color that persists across sessions. For example:
{
"sessionColor": "orange"
}
Alternatively, support a --color CLI flag so users can alias it in their shell config.
Current behavior
/color orangesets the color for the current session only- No config key exists in
settings.json,config.json, or any other file to persist this /themealready persists across sessions, so/colornot persisting is inconsistent
Why this matters
Users who prefer a specific accent color have to manually run /color every time they start a new session. This is a small friction that a one-line config option would eliminate.
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