[BUG] The "Not responding" status bar message during hot-reloads Is misleading since Claude Code is actually waiting for the build to finish, not frozen.

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?

When Claude is doing a hot-reload of the application is is saying 'Not Responding' in orange. This is misleading since Claude Code is actually not hung.

What Should Happen?

Claude should either give the regular working message or say busy waiting ...

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

When Claude trys to restart a nodejs backend application with auto-reload

Claude Model

None

Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

2.1.87

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

VS Code integrated terminal

Additional Information

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