Turn off annoying progress messages?

[hejtmii]

Hi, I cannot be the only one who hates the current overly creative progress messages such as * Sparkling..., * Blooping..., * Blipping ... * Whatevering...

Is there a way to turn them off and show something "normal" instead, such as just a boring, but professional * Working... or similar? Could some feature toggle be added for it?

I am normally not (too much) OCD, but these are extremely annoying and distracting my focus by even noticing them...

No offense to whoever invented those, I am sure the intention was good, but you deserve to know that it is harming the UX to some people using it...

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1. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/4181
2. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/5474

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[hejtmii]

I don't think this is a duplicate, because:

• This bug says the flavor text is no longer generated with the model calls https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/5025
• The feature request is for startup tips, not for progress messages

[GlassBeaver]

Yes please, they're very annoying.

[disappointment]

I would appreciate a way to disable them as well, I find the flavor text very distracting.

[smolin]

Upvote. I've been working with this utility for about 10 minutes now and I'm ready to scream. Please add the option to turn off this feature.

[gus-avela]

Please provide an option to disable the flavor text. DISABLE_NON_ESSENTIAL_MODEL_CALLS does not disable it. The flavor text is horribly grating and makes using claude code a frustrating experience.

[hargunoberoi]

Hi, love claude code but hate the annoying loading messages. Posting here just to keep the issue alive. It's such a terrible way of degrading user experience. It's okay if the developers want to have fun as long as you let us decide we find it funny or annoying (by giving us the option to disable it) If anyone has a quirky hack or a fork that we can use until an official fix is in place, please elucidate us.

[seleniumRnD]

You are not the only one - we all hate them!

They might have seemed cute in an early prototype, but it shows a lack of judgement foisting them on their users .

Why the Anthropic employees using the system for their development put up with it is beyond me. Possibly just don't want to create waves with the gods who build this tool.

We were all thinking they would correct this sophomoric gimmick for months, but it didn't happen. Some of us submit an issue, then it is ignored, and finally and closed as a duplicate.

[hargunoberoi]

Hey, has anyone found a remedy? I came back here after one of the messages were: "Tomfoolering"; Like what? guys, please!

[mikebrotzman]

Seconding this, today I got "razmatazzing" and "skedaddling" among many others, super cringe, please make this toggle-able. I even went back and forth with the AI to see if it could configure itself to not do this and while it said it could (and even seemed to go down a path of terrible self-talk where it chastised itself in a frankly over-the-top way), it apparently can not because I just got "Burrowing" and then "Dilly-dallying" :(

[smolin]

Re "anyone found a remedy", I started using https://opencode.ai/ as a front-end to Claude, and I don't see these messages anymore. As a bonus, you can easily try out alternatives to Claude, Lol

[hargunoberoi]

Thank you @smolin. Appreciate the recommendation

[paulduv]

It's completely unacceptable that this is not a setting. To the nerds trying to enforce their "humour" on others: guys, throw on your Tilley hats, tighten up those lanyards, deliver a few lame puns a little too loudly to get it out of your system, and make the hard realization that some people would like to not read your joke 285 times a day.

[jakubbortlik]

The annoying "thinking verbs" can be configured with the tweakcc tool (see this comment for a similar customization). This requires a local npm install though, it doesn't work with the "native install" of Claude Code.

I've successfully configured it to just show "Generating..." all the time.

[jv2222]

OMG so annoying. To spell out how to get rid of this.

1. npx tweakcc
2. arrow down to "Thinking verb"
3. Hit enter
4. Hit enter again (to edit)
5. Delete and type a sensible word like "Working..."
6. Enter to save
7. Escape
8. Hit enter when "*Apply customizations to cli.js:" is selected.

[aerskine]

Re "anyone found a remedy", I started using https://opencode.ai/ as a front-end to Claude, and I don't see these messages anymore. As a bonus, you can easily try out alternatives to Claude, Lol

Thanks - no meaningful feedback since Aug 29 means the issue is effectively closed. Please everyone upvote this response to uninstall and try a different front-end, eg @smolin recommendation

[GlassBeaver]

@jv2222 You're a scholar and a saint.

[ilyakogan]

This is infuriating, it steals so much of my focus! I'm using Claude Code as a Cursor add-on. Haven't found a way to use tweakcc to configure it...

[GlassBeaver]

@ilyakogan If you're on Windows, you have to use the node version as the native windows exe / installer won't work since tweakcc needs to edit cli.js

[bl-ue]

@GlassBeaver Actually, as of yesterday, tweakcc 3.0.0 now supports native CC installations on all platforms!

@ilyakogan Are you using the Claude Code UI extension in Cursor?

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[petertoth-dev]

@anthropic-xabi will we get this in official packages? Really very annoying

[zipperloo]

Bit late to this party but i thought I would try Claude Code out (as an extension in VSCode) and i am not liking it at all. Feels very disconnected to the code and I much prefer Copilot Agent. I am not convinced the context size is that different/impactful versus using Opus 4.5 in Coplit - and I am workingon a large app in a complex area and I find CC makes the same errors that need guiding as Copilot. And i just miss allt he native feel of Copilot. Why am I at this thread>>>> Well is the chipper messages that drove me over the edge. I find it incredibly distracting when i am code reviewing to see ""Noodling" "Pondering" "Vibing" "Disconbobulating" "Puzzling" "HONKING" "Wibbling" - i was looking for a reason to say 'thanks and bye for now' and that is it.