Coding Status for Discord
Show what you're working on — at a glance, on Discord.
A VS Code extension that turns your editor activity into Discord Rich Presence: the language you're in, the time you've been at it, and a rotating spinner word borrowed from Claude Code's loading animation — so your status reads Cogitating..., Moonwalking..., or the occasional Flibbertigibbeting... while you code.
Features
- Zero configuration — install and it works
- 187 spinner words from Claude Code, rotating every 15 seconds (configurable)
- Language detection with per-language icons for 43 languages (and growing)
- Session elapsed time shown on your Discord profile
- Smart state: changes the status line when you're debugging, reviewing a diff, or focused on the terminal
- Idle handling: slows down, pauses, or clears presence when VS Code loses focus for too long
- Toggle command: hide presence any time from the command palette
- Auto-reconnects if Discord is restarted
- Silently does nothing if Discord isn't running — no errors, no noise
- No telemetry, no network calls beyond the local Discord IPC socket
How it works
When VS Code is open and Discord is running on the same machine, the extension connects to Discord over its local IPC socket and sets your Rich Presence. Every 15 seconds it rotates to a new spinner word. No accounts, no API keys, no setup.
Commands
| Command |
Description |
Toggle Coding Status Presence |
Pause or resume the presence. Paused clears the presence from Discord entirely. State does not persist across VS Code restarts. |
Settings
All settings live under the claudeSpinner.* namespace (internal ID, kept stable across renames) and live-reload on change.
| Setting |
Type |
Default |
What it does |
claudeSpinner.enabled |
boolean |
true |
Master switch. Off → disconnect from Discord. |
claudeSpinner.cycleSpeed |
number (5–120) |
15 |
Seconds between word rotations. 5s minimum respects Discord's rate limit. |
claudeSpinner.cycleWords |
boolean |
true |
Rotate the word. Off → pick one word on activation and keep it. |
claudeSpinner.customWords |
string[] |
[] |
Extra words mixed into the rotation. Each entry 1–125 characters. Case-sensitive — "working" and built-in "Working" both appear. |
claudeSpinner.showLanguage |
boolean |
true |
Show the Working in X line beneath the cycling word. |
claudeSpinner.showWorkspace |
boolean |
false |
Append the workspace folder name to the status line. Off by default for privacy. |
claudeSpinner.showElapsedTime |
boolean |
true |
Show the session elapsed time on your profile. |
claudeSpinner.showLanguageIcon |
boolean |
true |
Use a per-language icon as the small overlay. Falls back to the Claude logo. |
claudeSpinner.smartState |
boolean |
true |
Vary the status line when debugging, reviewing a diff, or focused on the terminal. |
claudeSpinner.idleBehavior |
slow / pause / clear / none |
slow |
What happens when VS Code loses focus past the idle threshold. |
claudeSpinner.idleThresholdMinutes |
number (1–60) |
5 |
Minutes of inactivity before idle mode engages. |
claudeSpinner.wordRarity |
boolean |
false |
Opt-in weighted pick — common (~70%), uncommon (~25%), rare (~5%). |
claudeSpinner.timeBasedPools |
boolean |
false |
Opt-in bias by session length — warming-up, in-the-zone, deep-session word groups. |
Smart state priority
When smartState is on, the status line follows this priority:
- Debug session active →
Debugging in {language}
- Active tab is a diff editor →
Reviewing in {language}
- Terminal is the active panel →
In the terminal
- Otherwise →
Working in {language}
Toggle showWorkspace to append — {workspace} to rules 1–4 above. When no language is detected and no smart trigger is active, the entire state line is omitted — there is no standalone workspace-only line.
Idle behaviors
When VS Code loses focus for idleThresholdMinutes:
slow — the cycle interval quadruples (clamped to 120s)pause — cycling stops, last presence stays visibleclear — cycling stops, presence cleared from Discordnone — no change, keep cycling normally
Re-focusing pushes a fresh presence immediately and restores the normal cycle.
Language icons
Dedicated icons for 43 languages and frameworks — anything else falls back to the Claude logo while keeping its name in the tooltip.
Full list
TypeScript, JavaScript, React (.tsx / .jsx), Vue, Svelte, Astro, Python, Rust, Go, Java, C, C++, C#, HTML, CSS, Ruby, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, Dart, Lua, Elixir, Haskell, Scala, Shell (+ bash, zsh, fish), SQL, JSON, YAML, Markdown, R, MATLAB, Julia, OCaml, F#, Clojure, Erlang, Perl, Groovy, PowerShell, Objective-C (+ Objective-C++), GraphQL, Docker, LaTeX.
Missing one you use? Open an issue and I'll add it.
The Word List
All 187 words (click to expand)
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 Channelling 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
Requirements
- Discord desktop app running on the same machine as VS Code
- That's it
Privacy
- No telemetry, ever
- No network calls beyond the local Discord IPC socket
showWorkspace is off by default — your folder name never leaves your machine unless you turn it on
Thanks
Thanks for installing! If you enjoy it, a star on GitHub goes a long way — it's honestly how I decide what to keep polishing. Bugs, feature requests, and new-language suggestions are all welcome in issues.
Credits
The spinner word list comes from Claude Code by Anthropic. Most language icons are from Devicon; a few data-format icons (JSON, YAML, SQL) come from the Material Icon Theme — both MIT-licensed. The Anthropic logomark is from Simple Icons (CC0), and the VS Code logo is from Devicon. Rich Presence integration is powered by @xhayper/discord-rpc.
Huge thanks to every maintainer of those projects.
License
MIT
