Remember when placeholder text was fun? Bacon Ipsum. Hipster Ipsum. Cupcake Ipsum. Every designer had a favorite. We brought that energy to your terminal.
Spinner Verbs lets you customize the spinner verbs in Claude Code with themed packs. Swap out the defaults for something with personality. Because if Claude is going to think, it might as well think with style.
Claude Code shows rotating spinner verbs in your terminal while it works — little status messages like "Flibbertigibbeting..." and "Hyperspacing..." that let you know it's still alive. Since v2.1.23, you can customize these with the spinnerVerbs setting in ~/.claude/settings.json.
We made a whole website so you don't have to write them yourself.
Three steps. Under 30 seconds.
- Visit spinnerverbs.com
- Pick a pack
- Click "Copy Script" and paste into
~/.claude/settings.json
That's it. Next time Claude thinks, it'll think in your language.
| Pack | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Bacon | 🥓 | Your terminal smells like a Texas BBQ |
| Hipster | ☕ | You probably haven't deployed this before |
| Cupcake | 🧁 | Frosted, sprinkled, and baked to mass perfection |
| Pirate | 🏴☠️ | Arr, yer code be walkin' the plank |
| Gangsta | 🔫 | Straight outta the terminal, no cap |
| Samuel L. Jackson | 😤 | Say 'undefined' one more time. I dare you. |
| 90s Hip-Hop | 🎤 | C.R.E.A.M. get the money, dollar dollar build y'all |
| Star Wars | ⚔️ | Do or do not. There is no npm install. |
| Star Trek | 🖖 | Make it so, Number One. Deploy. |
| Self-Aware AI | 🤖 | I'm not thinking. I'm pretending to think. |
| Corporate BS | 💼 | Let's circle back on this deploy at EOD |
| Bob Ross | 🎨 | Happy little functions. No mistakes, just features. |
| Retro Terminal | 💾 | LOAD "*",8,1 — PRESS PLAY ON TAPE |
Add a spinnerVerbs key to your ~/.claude/settings.json:
{
"spinnerVerbs": {
"mode": "replace",
"verbs": [
"Beating the devil out of it",
"Titanium-hwite-ing",
"Painting some almighty trees",
"Adding a happy little friend",
"No mistakes just happy accidents"
]
}
}"mode": "replace" — Only your verbs show up. Claude's defaults are gone.
"mode": "append" — Your verbs get mixed in with Claude's defaults. Best of both worlds.
The website handles all of this for you. Just click copy and paste.
Packs are JSON files in src/packs/. Each one has an id, name, emoji, description, accent color, tags, and 20-25 verbs.
Got a theme we missed? We accept PRs faster than Claude accepts your code. Check out CONTRIBUTING.md for the format and quality bar.
MIT License. See LICENSE for details.
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