refactor(query): replace redundant provider/model status with spinner verbs

Replace "Calling {provider} ({model})" status message with a deterministic spinner verb selected from SPINNER_VERBS. The verb is chosen via hash of provider_id and model_id, eliminating redundancy with the model/provider info already shown in the footer.

Author: jhult

src-rust/crates/core/src/lib.rs

@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ pub mod format_utils;
 pub mod crypto_utils;
 pub mod status_notices;
 pub mod auto_mode;
+pub mod spinner;
+pub use spinner::{SPINNER_VERBS, TURN_COMPLETION_VERBS, sample_spinner_verb, sample_completion_verb};
 
 // Remote session sync and cloud session API (T3-1, T3-2).
 pub mod remote_session;

src-rust/crates/core/src/spinner.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/// Spinner verbs displayed during processing.
+pub const SPINNER_VERBS: &[&str] = &[
+    "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", "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",
+];
+
+/// Past-tense verbs shown in the status row after a turn completes.
+pub const TURN_COMPLETION_VERBS: &[&str] = &[
+    "Baked", "Brewed", "Churned", "Cogitated", "Cooked", "Crunched",
+    "Pondered", "Processed", "Worked",
+];
+
+/// Select a random spinner verb.
+pub fn sample_spinner_verb(seed: usize) -> &'static str {
+    SPINNER_VERBS[seed % SPINNER_VERBS.len()]
+}
+
+/// Select a random completion verb.
+pub fn sample_completion_verb(seed: usize) -> &'static str {
+    TURN_COMPLETION_VERBS[seed % TURN_COMPLETION_VERBS.len()]
+}

src-rust/crates/query/src/lib.rs

@@ -689,6 +689,8 @@ const MAX_TOKENS_RECOVERY_MSG: &str =
      you were doing. Pick up mid-thought if that is where the cut happened. \
      Break remaining work into smaller pieces.";
 
+// Spinner verbs are imported from claurst_core::spinner
+
 /// Run the agentic query loop.
 ///
 /// This sends the conversation to the API, handles tool calls in a loop, and
@@ -1055,9 +1057,12 @@ pub async fn run_query_loop(
                 if let Some(provider) = provider {
                     debug!(provider = %provider_id_str, model = %model_id_str, "Dispatching to non-Anthropic provider");
 
-                    // Notify TUI that we're calling the provider
+                    // Notify TUI that we're calling the provider using a random spinner verb
                     if let Some(ref tx) = event_tx {
-                        let _ = tx.send(QueryEvent::Status(format!("Calling {} ({})…", provider.name(), model_id_str)));
+                        use claurst_core::sample_spinner_verb;
+                        let seed = (provider_id_str.len() ^ model_id_str.len()) as usize;
+                        let verb = sample_spinner_verb(seed);
+                        let _ = tx.send(QueryEvent::Status(format!("✳ {}…", verb)));
                     }
 
                     // Build ProviderRequest from the already-assembled request data.

src-rust/crates/tui/src/app.rs

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ use crate::{agents_view::{AgentInfo, AgentStatus, AgentsMenuState, AgentsRoute},
 use claurst_core::config::{Config, Settings, Theme};
 use claurst_core::cost::CostTracker;
 use claurst_core::file_history::FileHistory;
+use claurst_core::{sample_completion_verb, sample_spinner_verb};
 use claurst_core::keybindings::{
     KeyContext, KeybindingResolver, KeybindingResult, ParsedKeystroke, UserKeybindings,
 };
@@ -1084,55 +1085,7 @@ pub struct App {
     pub exit_key_sequence_start: Option<char>,
 }
 
-const SPINNER_VERBS: &[&str] = &[
-    "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", "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",
-];
-
-fn sample_spinner_verb(seed: usize) -> &'static str {
-    SPINNER_VERBS[seed % SPINNER_VERBS.len()]
-}
-
-/// Past-tense verbs shown in the status row after a turn completes.
-/// Mirrors `TURN_COMPLETION_VERBS` from `src/constants/turnCompletionVerbs.ts`.
-const TURN_COMPLETION_VERBS: &[&str] = &[
-    "Baked", "Brewed", "Churned", "Cogitated", "Cooked", "Crunched",
-    "Pondered", "Processed", "Worked",
-];
-
-fn sample_completion_verb(seed: usize) -> &'static str {
-    TURN_COMPLETION_VERBS[seed % TURN_COMPLETION_VERBS.len()]
-}
+// Spinner verbs are now imported from claurst_core::spinner
 
 /// Format a duration in milliseconds to a human-readable string.
 ///