You can customise Claude’s spinner messages to display wording that better suits your preferences. The configuration location depends on the tool you use.
Claude Code CLI
Add the following to ~/.claude/settings.json for your user account, or .claude/settings.json for a specific project. Please note that Claude Code CLI is currently unavailable in our environment.
"spinnerVerbs": {
"mode": "replace",
"verbs": ["Thinking", "Writing code"]
}