Add theme tokens for assistant prose and tool output

Status Fixed / completed
Reported on v2.1.146
Maintainer reply None cached
Activity 3 comments · opened May 21, 2026 · closed May 21, 2026

Currently, the custom theme system exposes ~69 color tokens but none of them control:

  • Claude's response prose (the assistant's markdown output)
  • Tool output / tool-result display

Both fall through to the terminal's default foreground color, with no way to recolor them via a custom theme. Verified this by setting every documented token to a distinct color and confirming both regions remained at terminal default.

This makes verbose mode ("verbose": true) hard to scan — tool calls, tool results, and Claude's prose all render in the same color, blending together visually.

It's also surprising given that:

  • User messages can be styled (briefLabelYou, userMessageBackground)
  • Subagents each get their own color (*_FOR_SUBAGENTS_ONLY)
  • But Claude prime's prose has no token at all

Request: expose theme tokens such as assistantProseText (or similar) and toolOutputText / toolResultText so users can give these regions a distinct color in ~/.claude/themes/<name>.json.

Version: Claude Code 2.1.146
Docs reference: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/terminal-config#create-a-custom-theme

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github-actions[bot] · 4 months ago

Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

  1. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/59173
  2. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/61118
  3. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/60230

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Liquidmasl · 4 months ago
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