Improve Documentation: Clarify "Flavor Text" Status Messages
Status Closed — not planned
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Activity 11 comments · opened Jul 23, 2025 · closed Jan 8, 2026
DISABLE_NON_ESSENTIAL_MODEL_CALLS=1 disables "flavor text" but the documentation doesn't provide any information about what "flavor text" means or examples of it.
My goal is to disable the random (somewhat funny) messages Claude Code shows while working. For instance, the word "Creating" in :*Creating (90s 100 tokens esc to interrupt)"
I do not want to create an issue for that if this does it. On the other hand, I'd like to know what else I am disabling.
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I don't think that env var exists anymore but they haven't updated the docs see https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/5025#issuecomment-3148995126
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this is a request to document or remove.
DISABLE_NON_ESSENTIAL_MODEL_CALLS is still listed at https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/settings
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I confirm this is still present in the documentation
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DISABLE_NON_ESSENTIAL_MODEL_CALLSis still mentioned in the docsWhy would this be "not planned"? Is the plan of Claude Code to have incorrect documentation? What would be the benefit of that?
The ratio of time and effort users have spent asking for this vs. the time and effort to do it is too damn high!
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