On my agent’s words :
“I’d love an option to visually highlight my own messages in chat and agent threads. In longer threads, user messages blend in and it slows down scanning.
Requested behavior:
Add a setting to customize user-message appearance (background tint, border, or accent bar)
Keep assistant/system messages visually distinct (old school chat style setting?)
Respect current theme (light/dark) and accessibility contrast
Optional per-thread toggle would be great
Why this matters:
Faster backtracking in long debugging sessions
Clearer ownership of prompts vs responses
Better thread readability overall
This would be a big UX upgrade for power users. Thanks!”
yes, and the font could be changed in weight or style. Some more options for reply style in general please. Accesability with larger typefaces is a thing but anything would help UX.
When chatting with Cursor Agent, it can be hard to visually find my own messages in a long conversation.
It would be helpful if user messages could have a distinct visual style, such as a different background color, border, or stronger contrast from assistant messages.
Ideally this should respect the current theme and be configurable.
this is an essential feature to use my questions as a separator between topics.
This will make it easy for me to jump through the jungle of text cursor agent generate for each simple ask.
for now I add a rule to the agent to prefix and postfix each answer with two distinctive lines such as:
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ANSWER START ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ END ANSWER
I often have long chat threads going with cursor, and it can be difficult to see where I submitted an updated prompt or chat and where cursor replied if I’m scrolling through a long chat conversation. It would be extremely helpful if my chats had a colored background. Perhaps a yellow tint similar to the build buttons in plan mode. I would just love some way to be able to more easily identify my input messages when scrolling through a chat history.
Fully support this request! When working through long agent chat sessions, it becomes really hard to scroll back and quickly spot where my previous prompts are. A simple background color — even a very subtle one — on user messages would make navigation so much easier when reviewing past exchanges. It doesn’t need to be anything flashy, just enough visual contrast to act as a natural separator between my inputs and the AI responses. This would be a small but very impactful UX improvement.
This applies to Cursor Web, Cursor IDE, Cursor Agents, most Cursor UIs, I’d say.
The problem I find is that with the current color palette it is not easy to separate what I wrote from what the model responded (especially when scrolling), which makes it hard to tell where one exchange ends and the next begins. When I need to go back to a previous response, I usually find myself scrolling very slowly in order to find the section I am looking for.
So far, in the interfaces I have worked with, everything in the user/agent chat uses almost the same font, size, and color: white text on a black background.
It would be nice to have a different background color for the user prompt box. Currently it is slightly less darker than the agent’s background, but almost unnoticeable in my opinion. I’d suggest just making it dark gray.
I attach a Screenshot of a cursor.com/agents session to illustrate the problem. The conversation is in Spanish (my native language), but that is irrelevant in this case. I just want to point out how difficult it is to separate my prompt (outlined in blue) from the rest.
I think it is an easy fix, and it would make my coding experience (and probably others’ too) way smoother.
A few color options that I think could work, in rgb:
(45,45,48)
(55,55,58)
(42,45,54)
I’d like a way to change the background color of my own sent messages in the AI chat/composer panel, so they visually stand out from the assistant’s responses during long conversations. Ideally this would be exposed as a workbench.colorCustomizations token (e.g. something like cursor.chat.userMessageBackground) or a Settings UI option. Currently the chat panel is a custom UI, so none of the standard input.* or VS Code chat.* color keys apply.
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