Agents Window ignores the active color theme; Accessibility concerns

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

The Agents Window does not inherit the active theme that is applied in the main editor.

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Steps to Reproduce

  1. Install any custom theme
  2. Select the custom theme in the main editor window
  3. Open the Agents Window

Expected Behavior

The Agents Window should use the active editor theme.

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 3.4.17
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 93e603f703cd553a6bb3644711a3379bbbb31180
Date: 2026-05-13T21:39:55.724Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Nightly
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.4.0

Additional Information

I use a theme with limited peak contrast to reduce visual fatigue, and this behavior combined the lack of any contrast-normalized built-in themes makes it annoying and painful to use the Agents window.

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Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the detailed report and screenshots.

Confirmed: the Agents Window currently uses its own theme set Cursor Dark, Cursor Light, and Cursor Dark High Contrast, and it doesn’t inherit custom editor themes. This is a known limitation, not a bug in your specific build. So for now the only built-in workaround is to switch to one of the three built-in themes inside the Agents Window.

Your accessibility point makes total sense, especially about peak contrast and eye strain. I’ve shared your feedback internally as input for the existing work item to support custom themes in the Agents Window. I can’t share an ETA yet, but I’ll post back here once I have an update.

If you also run into other readability or contrast issues inside the Agents Window text, buttons, links, please start a separate thread with screenshots. These reports help us fix specific contrast regressions faster.