List of 187 Claude spinner verbs (leaked)
No idea who leaked the Claude Code codebase, but I came across this list of spinner verbs Claude uses from this post on X. And it's super cool.
- Accomplishing
- Actioning
- Actualizing
- Architecting
- Baking
- Beaming
- Beboppin'
- Befuddling
- Billowing
- Blanching
- Bloviating
- Boogieing
- Boondoggling
- Booping
- Bootstrapping
- Brewing
- Bunning
- Burrowing
- Calculating
- Canoodling
- Caramelizing
- Cascading
- Catapulting
- Cerebrating
- Channeling
- Channelling
- Choreographing
- Churning
- Clauding
- Coalescing
- Cogitating
- Combobulating
- Composing
- Computing
- Concocting
- Considering
- Contemplating
- Cooking
- Crafting
- Creating
- Crunching
- Crystallizing
- Cultivating
- Deciphering
- Deliberating
- Determining
- Dilly-dallying
- Discombobulating
- Doing
- Doodling
- Drizzling
- Ebbing
- Effecting
- Elucidating
- Embellishing
- Enchanting
- Envisioning
- Evaporating
- Fermenting
- Fiddle-faddling
- Finagling
- Flambéing
- Flibbertigibbeting
- Flowing
- Flummoxing
- Fluttering
- Forging
- Forming
- Frolicking
- Frosting
- Gallivanting
- Galloping
- Garnishing
- Generating
- Gesticulating
- Germinating
- Gitifying
- Grooving
- Gusting
- Harmonizing
- Hashing
- Hatching
- Herding
- Honking
- Hullaballooing
- Hyperspacing
- Ideating
- Imagining
- Improvising
- Incubating
- Inferring
- Infusing
- Ionizing
- Jitterbugging
- Julienning
- Kneading
- Leavening
- Levitating
- Lollygagging
- Manifesting
- Marinating
- Meandering
- Metamorphosing
- Misting
- Moonwalking
- Moseying
- Mulling
- Mustering
- Musing
- Nebulizing
- Nesting
- Newspapering
- Noodling
- Nucleating
- Orbiting
- Orchestrating
- Osmosing
- Perambulating
- Percolating
- Perusing
- Philosophising
- Photosynthesizing
- Pollinating
- Pondering
- Pontificating
- Pouncing
- Precipitating
- Prestidigitating
- Processing
- Proofing
- Propagating
- Puttering
- Puzzling
- Quantumizing
- Razzle-dazzling
- Razzmatazzing
- Recombobulating
- Reticulating
- Roosting
- Ruminating
- Sautéing
- Scampering
- Schlepping
- Scurrying
- Seasoning
- Shenaniganing
- Shimmying
- Simmering
- Skedaddling
- Sketching
- Slithering
- Smooshing
- Sock-hopping
- Spelunking
- Spinning
- Sprouting
- Stewing
- Sublimating
- Swirling
- Swooping
- Symbioting
- Synthesizing
- Tempering
- Thinking
- Thundering
- Tinkering
- Tomfoolering
- Topsy-turvying
- Transfiguring
- Transmuting
- Twisting
- Undulating
- Unfurling
- Unravelling
- Vibing
- Waddling
- Wandering
- Warping
- Whatchamacalliting
- Whirlpooling
- Whirring
- Whisking
- Wibbling
- Working
- Wrangling
- Zesting
- Zigzagging
If you don't remember seeing these anywhere, take a look at the screenshot below.
Yes, this is shown when you ask Claude Code to do something and then it's working on it. I believe these spinner verbs are randomly selected from the above list and shown.
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