prismantis

Sees 16 colors. Your terminal only had 8.

Colorful, themeable replies for Claude Code: tables, code, diagrams, charts and tool calls, in 15 themes, with copy buttons on everything.

Features

Try it: ask Claude to print docs/demo.md verbatim as its whole reply. Every feature is in there.

Install

Requires Claude Code 2.1.287 or later.

/plugin marketplace add NahumLitvin/prismantis

/plugin install prismantis@prismantis

To update, run claude plugin marketplace update prismantis && claude plugin update prismantis@prismantis, then /reload in every open session. A session keeps the version it loaded until it reloads.

Tested in the terminal on macOS; CI runs the tests on macOS, Linux and Windows. The desktop app, VS Code and mobile should work through the same mod API but have not been checked by hand yet. Turn it off any time in /plugin, and Claude Code's own renderer comes back. Press ctrl+o on a reply to see the original.

It's a Claude Code mod in plain TypeScript. It bundles two MIT libraries, beautiful-mermaid for diagrams and Prism for highlighting. It makes no network calls, reads no files and runs no commands. It redraws text already on your screen and, with diagramHints on, attaches a short model-only note to your prompts.

Themes

Dark: catppuccin-mocha (default), dracula, nord, tokyo-night, gruvbox-dark, rose-pine, everforest, github-dark, one-dark, solarized-dark.

Light: catppuccin-latte, gruvbox-light, rose-pine-dawn, github-light, solarized-light.

Switch on the spot with /prismantis theme nord, or run /prismantis for the help screen with every theme. mono uses no color, only bold and dim. Every palette is MIT licensed and credited in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.

Tables

Header cells take the tableHeader color, and every cell sits in a box with a double line under the header (tableStyle: box, or rules, grid and minimal for lighter looks), and :---:/---: alignment is honored. Numbers inside cells are colored like everywhere else. Columns shrink to fit the terminal.

Code

Code blocks get a header row with the language on the left and a copy button on the right, and the code sits indented below with no frame, so selecting it with the mouse copies only the code.

• Prism highlights JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX/TSX, Python, Go, Rust, Java, Kotlin, Swift, C, C++, C#, Ruby, JSON, YAML, TOML, SQL, HTML, CSS, Dockerfile, HCL and diff: keywords, strings, numbers, comments, keys, functions and properties each get a theme color.
• Shell blocks (bash, sh, zsh, unlabeled) color the command word, --flags, quoted strings and # comments, and restart after |, && and ;.

Diagrams and charts

Code blocks tagged mermaid draw as colored text art:

• flowcharts (graph LR, graph TD, decisions), sequence, state, class and ER diagrams
• bar and line charts with xychart-beta, sized to the terminal width
• each box and participant gets its own theme color, the same at both ends of a sequence diagram
• each bar gets its own color, gridlines stay dim, axis numbers use the number color

Diagrams too wide for the window, or over 80 lines, stay as code. mermaidAscii swaps box-drawing characters for + - |. Pie charts are not supported.

Layout

When tables and diagrams follow each other, they share a row and wrap to the next line once the terminal runs out of width. A wide terminal shows a table, a flowchart and two charts side by side.

Copy buttons

[ ⧉ copy ], drawn in Claude Code's accent color, sits on code blocks, tables, lists and quotes and puts the raw markdown on your clipboard. Quotes copy without their > markers, ready to paste as a message. Diagrams get two: ⧉ source copies the mermaid code and ⧉ art copies the drawn art, ready to paste into a chat code block. Tables get ⧉ art too: a plain boxed table that reads right in Slack, where pasted markdown does not. Replies end with ⧉ copy reply, which copies the reply as Claude wrote it (one-line English narration gets none). Use it for Hebrew and Arabic: selecting right-to-left text on screen copies the letters in the order they are drawn, not the order they are read. Clicking works where the terminal passes clicks through (fullscreen mode does); terminals with copy-on-select, such as Warp, may grab the word "copy" instead. Without a mouse, /prismantis copy copies the last reply and /prismantis copy code its last code block. Since Claude Code 2.1.291 ctrl+x then tab focuses the area above the prompt, not the buttons in replies.

Tool rows

Each tool call draws as one line: a bold verb and its target, Ran with a colored shell command, Read and Edited with the path. The dot is green when done, hollow while running and red on failure. Output still draws below. Collapsed groups draw one line too, Ran 3 commands, read 2 files · last: npm test, with a red count when any call failed. Expand a group (ctrl+o or --verbose) and its calls draw with Claude Code's own rows, inline output included.

toolStyle keeps tool rows apart from what Claude says. The default, chat, puts them dimmed on the right, like the other side of a chat, and leaves Claude's sentences on the left. Rows are capped at 60% of the width.

tree-dim tucks them under the sentence with ⎿ and dims them.

tree-bold is tree-dim with one-line sentences in bold.

classic is the original look: a bold verb and a status dot, at full brightness.

Turn footer

The line that closes a turn keeps Claude Code's word and colors the duration: ✻ Baked for 6m 20s. Terminal only, since that's the only surface that draws it.

Slash commands

Output from slash commands, built-in or from other plugins, is parsed as markdown and drawn like a reply, copy buttons included. Errors keep Claude Code's own red line.

Other mods

A mod that draws markdown in its own pane or band can have prismantis draw it, in the user's theme, by calling $.prismantis.markdown with the surface, the text and the columns it has.

• It answers the tree to draw, or undefined when prismantis is disabled or the text holds nothing to draw.
• It throws when prismantis isn't installed, so call it in a try.
• columns is the width of your content. Prismantis draws at least 20 columns wide.
• Theme, RTL and number and path highlighting follow the user's prismantis settings.
• Copy buttons are left out, because a button can't cross from one mod to another.

let drawn
try {
  drawn = await $.prismantis.markdown({ surface: e