Add a setting to disable the randomized live activity spinner verbs
What
Please add a supported way to disable the randomized live activity spinner verbs — the whimsical words shown next to the spinner while Claude Code is working, e.g. "Flibbertigibbeting…", "Ideating…", "Manifesting…", "Conjuring…", "Noodling…".
Why
Multiple users find these genuinely annoying and distracting, not charming. This isn't a one-off complaint — I and several colleagues are all bothered by them and want them gone. We'd like a single static word (or no word) instead.
What we tried (and why it doesn't work)
spinnerVerbs looks like the right knob but does not control the live activity verb. Per the changelog, every spinnerVerbs entry (v2.1.141, v2.1.152) applies it to turn-completion / post-turn messages, not the in-flight spinner verb.
Confirmed empirically:
~/.claude/settings.jsoncontains"spinnerVerbs": { "mode": "replace", "verbs": ["Working"] }and"spinnerTipsEnabled": false- Upgraded to the latest version
- Fully restarted the app multiple times
- The randomized live verbs ("Flibbertigibbeting…" etc.) still appear
Request
One of the following:
- Extend
spinnerVerbs(or add a new setting) to also override/disable the live activity verb, not just completion messages, or - A boolean like
spinnerVerbsEnabled: falsethat turns the randomized live verbs off entirely (falling back to a plain spinner or a single static word).
Environment
- Claude Code in the VSCode extension
- macOS (Darwin)
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