Add a setting to disable promotional/referral spinner tips separately from helpful tips
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Activity 0 comments · opened Aug 30, 2026
I'm a paying Claude Code user. The spinner injects referral/marketing lines into the tip rotation, e.g.:
Tip: Share Claude Code and earn €10 in usage credits · /passes
This is advertising inside the working UI of a paid product, and there is no way to remove it without also losing the genuinely useful tips. The only controls today are:
spinnerTipsEnabled: false— kills all tips, including the helpful ones;spinnerTipsOverride— forces me to hand-maintain a curated tip list just to exclude your promos.
Both are all-or-nothing workarounds for what should be a first-class toggle.
Request
Add a dedicated setting that suppresses only promotional/referral/upsell content while keeping functional tips — e.g. promotionalTipsEnabled: false (or referralTipsEnabled / marketingTipsEnabled). Ideally, referral promos should be off by default for paid subscribers.
Helpful tips: welcome. Marketing in a paid terminal: not welcome. Please separate the two.
Environment
- Claude Code native install, Windows 11
- gh/CLI feedback filed on behalf of a paying user