Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Spinner TipsArea: what it touches
RemovedKind: in v2.1.318,
RemovedSection of the release
What
While Claude works, an animated status line (the spinner) shows a verb such as "Reading" for the tool it is using. A tool is one of the actions Claude can take, like reading a file or running a shell command. The list that matches tools to verbs no longer has entries under these older internal names: