[Feature Request] Highlight User Prompts in Claude Code Terminal for Better Scrollback Visibility
Status Closed — not planned
Maintainer reply None cached
Workaround ✓ Mentioned in thread ↓
Activity 6 comments · opened Jul 25, 2025 · closed Jan 5, 2026
Description
Currently, Claude Code displays user prompts in gray, which makes it difficult to distinguish them—especially when scrolling through long sessions. This becomes a usability issue when reviewing command history, as prompts blend in with the surrounding output.
Feature Request
Add an option to visually distinguish user prompts in the Claude Code terminal. Possible enhancements:
Prompt Highlighting Options:
- Customizable background color or highlight style for prompt lines
- Bold or colored text for prompts
- Option to toggle prompt visibility styles (e.g., “Classic,” “Contrast,” “Highlight”)
Chat-Style UI Mode (Inspiration)
- Optional layout similar to a chat interface (like Claude’s main chat)
- Clearly separates user inputs and assistant responses with bubbles or headers
- Easier navigation and understanding of command-response flow
Benefits
- Improves readability and navigation in long sessions
- Makes it easier to spot user input vs. model output
- Enhances productivity for developers using Claude as an interactive assistant
Use case
- Debugging
- Command recall
- Educational demos
- Interactive sessions
6 Comments
Yes, need this badly - it's very difficult to find the actual user prompts as they're styled almost identically to thinking text. As a helpful workaround you can use the
#command to add an instruction:``
# At the end of every answer (whenever waiting for a user prompt), insert a line separator (using a repeated yellow emoji) so I can visually distinguish prompts.``Add this please anthropic!
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