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Spinner verbs

Spinner verbs are the animated status words Claude Code shows while working. They could simply say “processing,” but instead carry motion, sound, and personality.

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Natural translation

English remains the source layer while the interface shows one reading language at a time. Translation favors natural phrasing over stacked literal equivalents.

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Verified

Verified means the base meaning and etymology were checked against dictionary references. Editorial notes mark coinages, creative verb forms, or interpretations that are not official Anthropic explanations.

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187 entries

This is a growing open lexicon. The count always comes from the data, and discoveries enter through review in the public content repository.

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Provenance

This is a community archival and educational project, not an official Anthropic project. Anthropic's official Claude Code docs confirm that spinnerVerbs is configurable in settings, but they do not publish the built-in default spinner list.