Saturday, 11 July 2026

How to stop Claude "Flibbertigibbeting" in VS Code

Geez, but this is annoying...

To stop it in Visual Studio Code:

  1. Press Ctrl+Shift+P, to open the command palette
  2. Type "User Settings" and select the JSON option
     
  3. Add a string array block for "claudeCode.spinnerVerbs" with a mode and a set of verbs.
     

I have just one: "Thinking deeply". Example block:

  "claudeCode.spinnerVerbs": {
    "mode": "replace",
    "verbs": [
      "Thinking deeply",
    ]
  }