The static gray `running…` gave no sense anything was happening. Replace it
with a RunningIndicator: an animated ellipsis (Pondering → . → .. → ...) and a
curated, on-brand verb that rotates every few seconds (Pondering, Conjuring,
Brewing, …).
The verbs are clide-owned, not the Claude Code CLI's — that list is a TUI
cosmetic the stream-json protocol doesn't surface, and reusing the bundled
strings is a licensing gray area, so a curated list keeps us self-contained
(own-the-rendering-stack, D-75). Animation is driven off a single
AnimationController's value (no timers) so tests advance it with bounded
pumps; reduced-motion shows a static verb and the a11y label stays stable.
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