[BUG] settings to change the spinner verbs to a single verb are not respected.

Preflight Checklist

• [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
• [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
• [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

My request / prompt:
add/modify the claude settings file with this
"spinnerVerbs": { "mode": "replace", "verbs": ["Working"] }
I don't want to see the silly distracting verbs that change all the time - we did that last time and it was supposed to be permanent, but apparently not.

Claude's Answer:
Read Claude settings configuration file

It's already there — the setting is correctly set in ~/.claude/settings.json right now. The spinner will just show "Working" with no rotating verbs.

It may have looked like it disappeared because settings only take effect in new sessions. If you saw the rotating verbs earlier in this conversation, that would be why — it was already set before you asked. Should be stable going forward.

me:
no in previous interactions right here in this session the distracting silly verbs were still here

Claude:
That's a Claude Code bug then — the setting was already present in the file, so it should have been respected from the start of this session. Nothing to fix on your end; it's just not being honored consistently. Worth filing at https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues if it keeps happening.

What Should Happen?

spinner verbs should be replaced to only one

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

get claude to change the settings
then start a different session and notice the spinner verbs are still the idiotic / silly / stupid / distracting collection of useless verbs

Claude Model

Opus

Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

I don't know

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

Additional Information

_No response_