The first five minutes, as the product and not as a developer's first run

The first launch was a code box with a link under it, then an empty
Live screen with 'No cameras' in amber in a far corner, then a form
asking for an IP address, and for the first few minutes of all of it
the engine silently downloading 275 MB with nothing on screen but a
stopped-looking status. Walked in a browser with the new mock; nobody
who was not an installer would have got through it.

Now: a welcome that asks the one question a shop owner can answer -
managed from a head office, or on this PC only - with each path in a
sentence; a Getting Started checklist on Live that reads its three steps
from the engine and ticks them itself (recognition ready, camera added
and connected, camera proven by a walk-past), with the one button for
the next step, and that disappears the moment somebody is recognised;
and the model download reported as a percentage in the tray, the
sidebar and the checklist, parsed by the supervisor from the engine's
own progress lines.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KGcjxF1cNLcuwc3DAPcnfj

agent/pkg/engine/supervisor.go

@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ import (
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
+	"regexp"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
@@ -77,6 +79,7 @@ type Supervisor struct {
 	restarts int
 	cancel   context.CancelFunc
 	done     chan struct{}
+	progress Progress
 }
 
 func New(opts Options) *Supervisor {
@@ -110,6 +113,37 @@ func (s *Supervisor) Start() {
 	go s.supervise(ctx, done)
 }
 
+// Progress is what the engine is busy with before it answers - on first run,
+// downloading ~275 MB of models. Empty once the engine is up.
+type Progress struct {
+	What    string `json:"what"`
+	Percent int    `json:"percent"`
+}
+
+var progressRe = regexp.MustCompile(`download: (.+?) (\d{1,3})%`)
+
+func (s *Supervisor) noteProgress(line string) {
+	m := progressRe.FindStringSubmatch(line)
+	if m == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	pct, _ := strconv.Atoi(m[2])
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	if pct >= 100 {
+		s.progress = Progress{}
+	} else {
+		s.progress = Progress{What: m[1], Percent: pct}
+	}
+	s.mu.Unlock()
+}
+
+// Progress reports the current first-run download, if any.
+func (s *Supervisor) Progress() Progress {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	return s.progress
+}
+
 // Stop asks the engine to exit and waits for it.
 func (s *Supervisor) Stop() {
 	s.mu.Lock()
@@ -233,6 +267,7 @@ func (s *Supervisor) runOnce(ctx context.Context) error {
 		for sc.Scan() {
 			line := sc.Text()
 			fmt.Fprintln(s.opts.LogWriter, line)
+			s.noteProgress(line)
 			tailMu.Lock()
 			tail = append(tail, line)
 			if len(tail) > 12 {
@@ -244,6 +279,9 @@ func (s *Supervisor) runOnce(ctx context.Context) error {
 
 	s.setState(Running, nil)
 	waitErr := cmd.Wait()
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	s.progress = Progress{}
+	s.mu.Unlock()
 	<-pumped
 
 	// A context cancel terminates the child through exec's own handling; the