CLI TUI: Clearly distinguish user prompts from Codex responses

Open 💬 1 comment Opened Jul 25, 2026 by pobbye-star
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What variant of Codex are you using?

CLI (codex-cli 0.145.0-alpha.2) on Windows.

What feature would you like to see?

Please make user prompts and Codex responses clearly distinguishable in the interactive CLI transcript.

In long sessions, a user question and the following assistant response can visually run together, making it slow to scan the conversation and verify what was asked versus what Codex answered.

A terminal-native solution could combine one or more of:

  • stable role labels or prefixes, such as You and Codex
  • a clear divider or consistent spacing at each turn boundary
  • subtle, accessible role-specific styling that remains readable in common terminal themes
  • optional configuration for users who prefer a minimal interface

The goal is not a full-screen replacement UI: it is faster visual parsing of a normal terminal scrollback while preserving native selection, copy, and scrolling behavior.

Additional information

This is a usability request from a Korean Windows CLI user who frequently reviews long conversations. Clear turn boundaries would reduce mistakes when following multi-step work.

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github-actions[bot] contributor · 1 month ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #34150

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