/loanword:ticker — a card in the status line

Claude Code's status line re-runs a command every refreshInterval seconds and prints its first line under the prompt. Loanword has a command that prints one card from the open deck's snapshot — weakest first, cycling on a fixed clock, never opening the database:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/peek.mjs" --line

How long a word stays is the tickerEvery setting (seconds, 5…300, default 30), changed in the trainer's Settings or with ticker_every in the plugin options. --interval=N on the command line overrides it; leave the flag off so the setting rules. The status line cannot redraw faster than its own refreshInterval, so keep that at or below tickerEvery.

It prints Loanword · front — back · reading · 63% (or · new, · leech), or an empty line when there is nothing to show. --pick= narrows it like the peek setting (starred,slipping,B2).

Turning it on

1. Resolve ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} to an absolute path now — settings.json does not substitute variables.
2. Read ~/.claude/settings.json (create {} if missing). Ask the user once, in one line, before writing to it.
3. Merge — never overwrite other keys:

"statusLine": {
  "type": "command",
  "command": "node <absolute plugin root>/scripts/peek.mjs --line",
  "refreshInterval": 10
}

If a statusLine.command already exists, offer to chain it instead of replacing it, and remember the previous command in statusLine.loanwordPrevious:

"command": "<existing command> | tr -d '\n'; printf ' · '; node <absolute plugin root>/scripts/peek.mjs --line"

/loanword:ticker 30 writes 30 into tickerEvery (PATCH the trainer's settings, or edit settings.json beside the deck) and sets refreshInterval to the same number. The minimum Claude Code accepts is 1.

Turning it off

/loanword:ticker off removes the statusLine key Loanword added. If loanwordPrevious is present, restore that command instead of removing the key. Say in one line what was restored.

Nothing here spends a model call: the line comes from the snapshot the trainer already writes after every commit.