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Updated Thinking Status Messages

The whimsical thinking messages ("Consulting the rubber duck…", "Reticulating splines…", "Staring thoughtfully into the middle distance…") have been replaced with straightforward status indicators: "still thinking", "thinking more", "thinking some more", "almost done thinking". This gives a cleaner, more professional feel during extended thinking.

Evidence

New messages (search for "still thinking") — replaces old rS7 array

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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