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

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