Add color differentiation for user prompts vs Claude responses

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Activity 0 comments · opened Aug 24, 2026

Problem

In the CLI conversation view, user prompts and Claude responses blend together visually. When scrolling back through a long session, there is no quick visual anchor for "here is where I asked something" — the questions get buried in the surrounding response text, so finding a specific prompt/answer pair means reading rather than scanning.

Suggestion

Render user prompts in a visually distinct color (and/or expose the prompt color as a configurable theme token), so they stand out from Claude's responses when scrolling through conversation history.

Options that would each solve it:

  • A distinct default color for the user prompt line(s).
  • A configurable theme token (e.g. userPrompt) so people can pick a color that works with their terminal theme.
  • Respect NO_COLOR / provide a non-color fallback (e.g. a marker or rule) for users who disable colors.

Related

This is a follow-up to #4385, which requested the same thing and was closed/locked without the feature landing.

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