Sessionboxer

Themes, shared with VS Code

Eleven light and dark themes: Sessionboxer, GitHub, Catppuccin, Solarized, Dracula, Nord and One Dark, or follow the system with a light and a dark pick. The whole UI follows, chat, terminal and diagrams, and the VS Code running in the box switches to the same palette live.

Global settings in the Catppuccin Latte light theme: the Color theme grid with eleven themes and a Follow the system's light or dark setting checkbox
The theme grid in Global settings, here in Catppuccin Latte.

Things you can do with it

Match the editor you already use

Pick Catppuccin Mocha or One Dark and the chat, the terminal and the VS Code in the box look like your desktop VS Code.

Light by day, dark by night

Follow the system with a light and a dark choice, and the UI switches with your operating system.

Different on the phone

The choice is stored per browser, so the phone can stay dark while the laptop is light.

Read code in a palette you know

Code blocks in the chat, the terminal and the editor share the colours, so a diff looks the same everywhere.

How it works

The palette is shipped into the box as a VS Code color theme, so the editor starts in the theme you have and switches live when you change it. The choice is per browser, stored there rather than in config.json; a theme picked in VS Code's own picker is overridden by the session's. An older box gets the themes on Stop and Resume.

The Code pane with VS Code in the Nord dark palette, matching the chat next to it
VS Code in the box takes the same palette, and switches live when you change it.
The Code pane with VS Code in a light theme, matching a light Sessionboxer UI
A light theme applies to the editor too.

Compared with other products

SessionboxerDevinCursor Cloud AgentsCodex cloudClaude Code on the webOpenHandsT3 Code
Theme also applied to the built-in VS Code✓—n/an/an/an/an/a
VS Code and terminals inside the sandbox✓✓————your own
Open sourceMIT✗✗✗✗MITMIT

Most products offer a light and a dark mode for their own UI. Among the hosted ones only Devin also has an editor in the task view; Cursor Cloud Agents, Codex cloud and Claude Code on the web have none to theme. Sessionboxer ships the same palettes to the UI and to the VS Code in the box, and since it is MIT-licensed you can add your own.

Based on each product's public documentation, September 2026; ✓ = offered, ✗ = not offered, — = not found in the docs. Corrections welcome as an issue.