MathWorks-ify your Claude Code verbs


It turns out you can very easily change the list of verbs Claude Code uses to display when it's thinking. I've had fun replacing them with some MathWorks-specific verbiage. Comment below if you have any ideas to add to the list!
You just add the following to your settings.json file:
"spinnerVerbs": {
"mode": "replace",
"verbs": [
"MATLABing",
"Simulinking",
"MathWorking",
"MathWorkin' on it",
"Pre-allocating arrays",
"Checking 1-based indexing",
"Vectorizing",
"Eigenvaluing",
"FFT-ing",
"Transposing",
]
  }
Hans Scharler
Hans Scharler on 29 Jun 2026 at 15:06
This is awesome... it inspired me to make my own spinnerVerbs.
"spinnerVerbs": {
"mode": "replace",
"verbs": [
"Suppressing with semicolons",
"Checking out a license",
"Reshaping the matrix",
"Squeezing singleton dimensions",
"Broadcasting implicitly",
"Meshgridding",
"Stepping the solver",
"Tuning PID gains",
"Compiling MEX",
"Profiling hot loops",
"Clearing the workspace",
"Plotting in figure 1"
]
}
Duncan Carlsmith
Duncan Carlsmith on 7 May 2026 (Edited on 7 May 2026)
"Mathacking", "MatTwerking", "MATClodding"...

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