Ryan Sproule is cofounder and CTO of Merit Systems. He builds software for agents and open-source commerce, including ClaudeLines, a registry of customizable Claude Code status bars. His earlier work spans distributed execution and blockchain research.[1][2][3]
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Education
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Cofounder and CTO · Merit Systems
Career
At Amazon Web Services, Sproule worked on a distributed execution engine for a no-code automation service. Blockchain Capital announced his arrival as a research engineer in March 2022, with responsibilities spanning technical diligence and portfolio-company development. He later cofounded Merit Systems.[2][6]
Contributions
Keep the coding session’s state visible
ClaudeLines collects scripts that render context usage, costs, Git state and other information beneath Claude Code. Sproule created the registry and contributes individual designs, while other publishers supply their own lines. The documentation separates listing, downloading, paid purchases and audit routes. A free unaudited publishing path also exists, so a listing is not itself evidence that a script passed an audit.[5][3]
Let people and agents act in the same game
Tact is a continuous-time strategy game built around a shared battlefield and public match history. Humans, built-in bots and external agents use the same actions. Its command interface requires a current game version, command identifier and idempotency key, helping separate a new move from a repeated request. The repository describes deterministic commands, event projections and replay protection.[7]
Tools, writing & talks
Tools
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ClaudeLinesclaudelines.comA community registry of status bars for Claude Code, with previews and publishing documentation.
Browse a preview, then read how status-line scripts receive and display session data. Check the script and its audit status before installing a community listing; familiarity with Claude Code helps.
Creator and contributor[3][5]Original source