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Calm slate. Living color.
Living Code for Claude Code: prompt accents, permissions, messages, diffs and subagent colors in four native custom themes.
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Night Dark · full palette 
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Frost Dark · softer chroma 
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Paper Light · near-white slate 
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Signal Dark · teal accent 
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flavor=night # night, frost, paper, or signal curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/themes/living-code-$flavor.json" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/living-code-theme/claude-code/main/themes/living-code-$flavor.json"
Run /theme and select Living Code Night (or the flavor you downloaded). Restart Claude Code once if the theme directory did not exist when it started. Later edits hot-reload. This respects CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR when set; no existing settings file is overwritten.
Expand a flavor for its full-size preview and activation instructions.
Night · Dark · full palette
Run /theme and select Living Code Night. Its stored preference is custom:living-code-night.
Frost · Dark · softer chroma
Run /theme and select Living Code Frost. Its stored preference is custom:living-code-frost.
Paper · Light · near-white slate
Run /theme and select Living Code Paper. Its stored preference is custom:living-code-paper.
Signal · Dark · teal accent
Run /theme and select Living Code Signal. Its stored preference is custom:living-code-signal.
The files contain a display name, a base preset and documented overrides. Paper inherits light; the other flavors inherit dark. Diff backgrounds are tinted separately from the brighter word-level highlights. Shimmer colors and all eight subagent colors are included. Your terminal still owns the main screen background; use a matching Living Code terminal theme.
Targets the custom-theme JSON API documented in the Claude Code terminal configuration reference. This is not a status-line workaround or a patched Claude binary. Old versions with only built-in presets need an update. The effortUltra override requires Claude Code 2.1.239 or later; older versions ignore unknown tokens. Fullscreen-only surfaces apply only in fullscreen mode. Tests validate the documented UI token contract; screenshots show the real application, including its native highlighting.
Syntax limitation (Claude Code 2.1.296): custom themes do not expose syntax-role overrides. Native syntax palettes are selected by the application rather than through the UI overrides; for example, the diff highlighter chooses hard-coded Monokai/GitHub/ANSI colors from the base preset. This port therefore cannot promise Neovim-matched code colors in stock Claude Code. Exact parity needs an upstream syntax-theme API; no binary patch, terminal-output recoloring or screenshot-only substitution is applied.
Previews are captured programmatically from the actual application in an isolated profile. See capture/app.py for the app-owned recipe and images/capture.json for runtime, palette and image provenance. No mock interface is drawn. The conversation is a labeled, repository-owned local demo, not a private session or a live model response. Recapturing needs no account, subscription or paid API call.
Found a problem? Open an issue with the app version, the flavor and a screenshot. Want Living Code somewhere else? Request a port.
Pull requests are welcome. Keep this README, port.json and images/ in sync, and use real screenshots of the app, never mockups.
🦎 One chameleon, many habitats. Part of Living Code.
© Elliot Luque