claude-verbs

Replace Claude Code's thinking verbs with Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, and more.

Works with both Claude Code CLI and the VSCode Claude extension. Supports macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Usage

🚀 Just run this command:

npx claude-verbs

A menu will open — use arrow keys to pick a theme and press Enter.

✅ That's it.

Optionally, use CLI commands directly:

npx claude-verbs list              # List available themes
npx claude-verbs use <theme>       # Apply a theme
npx claude-verbs reset             # Reset to Claude Code defaults
npx claude-verbs current           # Show currently applied verbs

Themes

| id | name | sample | |----|------|--------| | lotr | Lord of the Rings | "🌿 Waiting for the Ents to decide" | | sw | Star Wars | "✨ May the tokens be with you" | | dune | Dune | "🏜️ Tokens must flow" | | matrix | Matrix | "📞 Looking for an exit" | | bb | Breaking Bad | "🧪 99.1% pure coverage" | | got | Game of Thrones | "🗡️ What do we say to PO? Not today." | | br | Blade Runner | "🌧️ All those prompts lost in time... like tears in rain" |

How it works

Claude Code reads spinner verbs from ~/.claude/settings.json. The VSCode Claude extension reads them from your VS Code settings.json under claudeCode.spinnerVerbs.

When you apply a theme, claude-verbs updates both:

• ~/.claude/settings.json → spinnerVerbs (CLI)
• ~/AppData/Roaming/Code/User/settings.json (Windows) or ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json (macOS) → claudeCode.spinnerVerbs (VSCode extension)

reset restores both to their defaults.

Uninstall

npx claude-verbs reset
npm uninstall -g claude-verbs

License

MIT