[FEATURE] Separate setting to disable promotional/referral notices without losing tool tips

Preflight Checklist

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Problem Statement

The Claude Code spinner tips channel mixes two unrelated kinds of content:

1. Tool tips — genuinely useful hints about features, keyboard shortcuts, and workflows. Especially valuable for new users still learning the tool.
2. Promotional content — referral offers (e.g. the "earn $10 by referring people to Claude" notice), marketing messages, and similar.

The only way to disable promotional content today is spinnerTipsEnabled: false, which also kills all the actual tool tips. That forces users into an all-or-nothing choice: tolerate marketing or give up the learning aid.

For users who are still ramping up on Claude Code, losing tool tips is a real cost. For users who don't want marketing content in their terminal, there's no other option.

Proposed Solution

Request

Please add a separate setting to disable promotional spinner content while keeping educational tips. Something like:

{
"spinnerTipsEnabled": true,
"spinnerPromotionsEnabled": false
}

Or a category-based filter:

{
"spinnerTipCategories": {
"tips": true,
"promotions": false,
"announcements": false
}
}

Either approach would let users keep the genuinely useful guidance without being shown referral programs, surveys, or other marketing in the same channel.

A one-line setting addition would resolve this completely without affecting users who are happy with the current behavior.

Alternative Solutions

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Priority

Critical - Blocking my work

Feature Category

CLI commands and flags

Use Case Example

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Additional Context

Why this matters

• Promotional content in a developer tool's UI feels intrusive, especially when there's no granular opt-out.
• New users benefit most from tool tips and are also the most likely to be annoyed by promotional content they didn't sign up for.
• Bundling marketing with help content erodes trust in all spinner messages — users start assuming any spinner text might be an ad.