# Claude Code on desktop gets custom themes built with mods

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Claude Code's desktop app can now be restyled with [custom themes](<https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2121392666244186327>), built as mods.

A theme can change the app's colors and add an animated background. You don't have to write one by hand. Tell Claude how you want the app to look and it builds the theme for you. If you'd rather start from something that already works, the theme-examples plugin gives you examples to begin with. The demo, which is labeled illustrative, shows a /custom-theme command being typed into a desktop session.

This is for the desktop app. Themes build on [mods](<https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-code-mods>), the small TypeScript functions Claude Code [added earlier this month](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/claude-code-added-mods>) for changing how it behaves and looks. Mods run with the same access to your machine as Claude Code and aren't sandboxed, so install themes only from a source you trust.

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