Add a configurable verb for the post-turn completion line
Summary
The end-of-turn completion line (e.g. "cogitated for 12s") uses a hard-coded rotating list of whimsical verbs, with no way to customize it via settings.json.
Note: spinnerVerbs is not the right place for this — the spinner verb is present tense ("Working…" while the turn is live) and the completion verb is past tense ("worked for 12s" once the turn ends). They're semantically distinct and should stay as separate settings.
Request
Add a new settings.json key (e.g. completionVerbs) with the same { mode: "replace" | "append", verbs: [...] } shape as spinnerVerbs, controlling only the post-turn completion line.
Motivation
Users who set spinnerVerbs to a plain verb already signal a preference for non-whimsical text. A matching key for the completion line would let them opt out of the rotating verbs end-to-end.
Environment
Claude Code CLI, macOS
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Would be very useful, especially since one can modify the spinner verbs.
would love to see this!
Strong +1, with a localization angle that makes this more than cosmetic.
claude-medarbek uses
spinnerVerbsto replace the spinner with ~290 Hebrew verbs. It works beautifully mid-turn — but every turn still ends with an EnglishBrewed for 36s, which breaks the whole effect. Any non-EnglishspinnerVerbsuser hits this: the live verb localizes, the completion verb cannot.I checked the current binary (v2.x, win32): the completion words are a hard-coded 8-item array —
[Baked,Brewed,Churned,Cogitated,Cooked,Crunched,Sautéed,Worked]— with no settings key referencing it, confirming nothing insettings.jsoncan reach it today.Agree with the OP that this belongs in a separate key rather than inside
spinnerVerbs: grammatical past tense is language-specific, so a simplecompletionVerbs: string[]that the CLI picks from at random (mirroring the current behavior) would cover every language without needing any tense logic.Seconded. Please add. "Whimsical" is getting old real fast :)
Apparent duplicate of #24968