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index 0000000000..b56331f4ab
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diff --git a/packages/tui/src/routes/session/index.tsx b/packages/tui/src/routes/session/index.tsx
index ade1ac5480..ec037110ef 100644
--- a/packages/tui/src/routes/session/index.tsx
+++ b/packages/tui/src/routes/session/index.tsx
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import { SplitBorder } from "../../ui/border"
 import { useTuiPaths, useTuiTerminalEnvironment } from "../../context/runtime"
 import { Spinner, SPINNER_FRAMES } from "../../component/spinner"
 import { PatchDiff } from "../../component/patch-diff"
-import { ThemeContextProvider, useTheme, useThemes } from "../../context/theme"
+import { createSyntaxStyleMemo, ThemeContextProvider, useTheme, useThemes } from "../../context/theme"
 import { BoxRenderable, ScrollBoxRenderable, addDefaultParsers, TextAttributes, RGBA } from "@opentui/core"
 import { Prompt, type PromptRef } from "../../component/prompt"
 import type {
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ import { withTimestampedFallback } from "@opencode-ai/util/session-title-fallbac
 import { useSessionTabs } from "../../context/session-tabs"
 import { createSingleFlight } from "../../util/single-flight"
 import type { SessionPending } from "@opencode-ai/schema/session-pending"
+import { generateThinkingSyntax } from "./thinking-syntax"
 
 addDefaultParsers(parsers.parsers)
 
@@ -1432,6 +1433,7 @@ function SessionReasoningGroupView(props: {
   const ctx = use()
   const theme = useTheme()
   const { currentSyntax: syntax } = useThemes()
+  const thinkingSyntax = createSyntaxStyleMemo(() => generateThinkingSyntax(syntax(), theme.text.subdued))
   const renderer = useRenderer()
   const [expanded, setExpanded] = createSignal(false)
   const [hover, setHover] = createSignal(false)
@@ -1527,7 +1529,7 @@ function SessionReasoningGroupView(props: {
                             filetype="markdown"
                             drawUnstyledText={false}
                             streaming={part()?.time?.completed === undefined && message()?.time.completed === undefined}
-                            syntaxStyle={syntax()}
+                            syntaxStyle={thinkingSyntax()}
                             content={content()}
                             conceal={ctx.markdownMode() === "rendered"}
                             fg={theme.text.subdued}
@@ -2060,6 +2062,7 @@ function ReasoningPart(props: {
 }) {
   const theme = useTheme()
   const { currentSyntax: syntax } = useThemes()
+  const thinkingSyntax = createSyntaxStyleMemo(() => generateThinkingSyntax(syntax(), theme.text.subdued))
   const ctx = use()
   // Collapsed by default in hide mode: a single line throughout, so the
   // layout never shifts. Click to open the full markdown block, click to close.
@@ -2112,7 +2115,7 @@ function ReasoningPart(props: {
                 filetype="markdown"
                 drawUnstyledText={false}
                 streaming={true}
-                syntaxStyle={syntax()}
+                syntaxStyle={thinkingSyntax()}
                 content={content()}
                 conceal={ctx.markdownMode() === "rendered"}
                 fg={theme.text.subdued}
diff --git a/packages/tui/src/routes/session/thinking-syntax.ts b/packages/tui/src/routes/session/thinking-syntax.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b6835de694
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/tui/src/routes/session/thinking-syntax.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import { SyntaxStyle, type RGBA } from "@opentui/core"
+
+export function generateThinkingSyntax(syntax: SyntaxStyle, foreground: RGBA) {
+  return SyntaxStyle.fromStyles(
+    Object.fromEntries(
+      syntax.getRegisteredNames().map((name) => [name, { ...syntax.getStyle(name), fg: foreground }]),
+    ),
+  )
+}