The harness statusline is a user-level setting no plugin can inject, but ahoy install could offer it as an owned transparent-confirm ConfigChange (same pattern as the PATH symlink): point statusLine at a new 'abcd statusline' verb consuming the harness stdin JSON and appending guard health, version skew, and update-available. Event-driven refresh (300ms debounce, min 1s interval) rules out live download progress; steady-state health only.

The harness statusline is a user-level setting no plugin can inject, but ahoy install could offer it as an owned transparent-confirm ConfigChange (same pattern as the PATH symlink): point statusLine at a new 'abcd statusline' verb consuming the harness stdin JSON and appending guard health, version skew, and update-available. Event-driven refresh (300ms debounce, min 1s interval) rules out live download progress; steady-state health only.

Grounds

• pursued: the offered verb is the wiring every later status element hangs on; if the line is declined more often than taken at install, the offer's placement in onboarding was wrong