Dark High Contrast theme Link Color Broken

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

The color choice for links in the agent window using the Dark High Contrast theme is very poor and essentially broken. The whole idea for this theme is high contrast i.e. everything is easily visible and this dark blue color being used for links against the black background is horrible and very hard to see.

Steps to Reproduce

Create an agent thread that produces a link to code or a website or navigate to an existing agent thread with a link while using the Dark High Contrast theme.

Expected Behavior

Expected behavior is that the color choices are actually HIGH CONTRAST and easily visible. It would be great to just restore the original color scheme as it worked perfectly before the update that changed it.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 3.0.9
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 93e276db8a03af947eafb2d10241e2de17806c20
Date: 2026-04-03T02:06:46.446Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.3.0

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Additional Information

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Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hi @Davin_AM Apologies for this. I’m raising a bug report, but I don’t have a time estimate for exactly when it will be fixed. In the meantime, here’s a workaround that offers similar functionality. I’ve tested it and verified that the workaround produces links in the chat box in a readable color while preserving the high contrast theme.

As a workaround, you can install the GitHub Theme extension and switch to GitHub Dark High Contrast. It’s very similar to the built-in High Contrast theme, but renders link colors differently in the chat panel.

  1. Install the extension: GitHub.github-vscode-theme

  2. Set your theme to GitHub Dark High Contrast

You can drop the above in the Cursor chat, and Cursor will take care of that for you!

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Thanks for the reply @kevinn , I’ll use the workaround theme as needed. I wanted to add an additional note, the terminal execution window’s “accept” button is also completely invisible.

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Should be appearing on the bottom right there. For when the teams gets to the ticket it should be addressed at the same time. Thanks.

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I have re–produced that same issue and added it to the bug report. Thank you very much for reporting @Davin_AM we appreciate it!