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
YouandCodex - 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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