anthropics / anthropics/claude-code
Atlassian connector widgets render with a white background in dark mode and are always expanded inline
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Description
### What's Wrong?
Every tool call to the Atlassian (Jira) claude.ai connector renders an inline card
labelled "Widget from Atlassian ``" in the Claude Code desktop app. Two
independent problems with it:
1. **The card ignores the app theme.** It is drawn with a white/near-white background
and light grey text, inside a dark-themed UI. The contrast is poor, the text is hard
to read, and the block is visually jarring against the rest of the transcript.
2. **The card is always expanded.** It renders in full on every call, including when a
ticket is only referenced in passing. There is no way to get a one-line reference
that expands on click.
In one session with roughly eight Jira calls the transcript became difficult to read
back, because every call contributed another large, low-contrast block.
### What Should Happen?
Either of these would resolve it, and both would be better:
- The widget follows the app's light/dark theme.
- The widget renders collapsed by default and expands on click, the way the ordinary
`Used : ` rows already behave.
A setting controlling inline MCP widget rendering would also be sufficient.
### Steps to Reproduce
1. Use the Claude Code desktop app with a dark theme.
2. Enable the Atlassian claude.ai connector.
3. Ask Claude to do anything that calls a Jira tool, e.g. read an issue.
4. A "Widget from Atlassian getJiraIssue" card renders inline, white-on-dark and fully
expanded.
### Additional context: no setting controls this
I looked for a way to turn the rendering off, and there does not appear to be one:
- `~/.claude/settings.json` — nothing display-related
- project `.claude/settings.json` and `settings.local.json` — nothing
- the desktop app's own preferences — 26 keys covering browser tools, scheduled tasks,
sidebar mode and permissions; nothing about MCP widget display
`mcp-user-tool-toggles.json` can disable individual MCP tools, but that removes the tool
itself rather than its rendering.
### Workaround
Disable the Atlassian connector entirely and configure the Atlassian MCP server directly
instead:
```
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http atlassian https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/mcp
```
Same Jira site, same tools, and its results render as an ordinary collapsed tool row.
Worth noting: "disable the connector" is implemented by writing all 41 of the connector's
tool names into `mcp-user-tool-toggles.json`, rather than as a single connector-level
flag. A newly added connector tool would therefore not be covered by an existing toggle.
This is a poor workaround regardless, because it means giving up the connector in order
to control its presentation.
### Claude Code Version
2.1.156
### Is this a regression?
Unsure. The widgets appeared recently, but I do not have a specific last-working version
to cite.
### Environment
- Claude Code desktop app (Code tab), version 2.1.156
- macOS (Darwin 25.6.0), Apple Silicon
- Theme: auto, resolving to dark
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the Atlassian connector behavior in the Claude Code desktop app's Code tab with a dark theme, then compare it with the direct Atlassian MCP server workaround. The payload names no implementation file or test; review the relevant rendering entry point and existing collapsed tool-row behavior. Done means connector widgets respect the theme and/or collapse by default without disabling the connector.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100