Add theme tokens for assistant prose and tool output
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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https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/60230 very related request.
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