Don't falsely declare a dependency build stale (#1568) (#1768)

Installing a heavy dependency like vllm crashes in a "stale — restarting" loop:
it restarts mid-install, reuses the cached wheels, then stalls again.

The download/install watchdog (cookbookRunning.js) keyed its stall signal purely
off the downloaded-byte counter ("1.81G/2.49G"). A dependency install spends long
stretches with NO byte counter — pip dependency resolution and the native CUDA
build/compile — so the signal froze and after STALE_PROGRESS_MS the watchdog
declared it stale and auto-restarted it mid-build, looping forever.

Extract the signal into a pure computeProgressSignal (cookbookProgressSignal.js):
keep the byte counter for the download phase (so a genuinely stuck download is
still caught, and an animating-but-frozen ETA frame is NOT mistaken for progress),
and when there's no byte counter fall back to a fingerprint of the output tail so
resolver/compile lines count as progress. Only a truly frozen tail now reads as
stalled.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

static/js/cookbookProgressSignal.js

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// static/js/cookbookProgressSignal.js
+/**
+ * Liveness signal for a running cookbook download/install. The watchdog treats a
+ * task as stalled when this signal stays unchanged for too long, so it must move
+ * whenever the task is genuinely making progress.
+ *
+ * During a model DOWNLOAD the honest signal is the downloaded-byte counter
+ * ("1.81G" from "1.81G/2.49G"): it climbs while transferring and freezes when
+ * stuck — and unlike a % bar or speed/ETA it doesn't keep animating on a frozen
+ * frame. That path is kept exactly as-is.
+ *
+ * But a dependency install (e.g. vllm) spends long stretches with NO byte
+ * counter — pip dependency resolution and the native CUDA build/compile. A
+ * byte-only signal freezes there, so the watchdog falsely declares the install
+ * stale and restarts it mid-build, looping forever (#1568). When there's no byte
+ * counter, fall back to a fingerprint of the output tail: resolver/compile lines
+ * keep changing while the process is alive, and only a truly hung process leaves
+ * the tail frozen.
+ *
+ * Pure (string in, string out) so it's unit-testable; cookbookRunning.js pulls
+ * in browser-only modules and can't load under node.
+ */
+export function computeProgressSignal(bytes, dlAgg, lastPct, snapshot) {
+  if (bytes) return bytes;
+  const base = dlAgg != null ? String(dlAgg) : (lastPct || '0');
+  // No byte counter → use the output tail so a build/resolve phase that emits new
+  // lines counts as progress instead of a false stall (#1568).
+  return base + '|' + String(snapshot || '').slice(-300);
+}

static/js/cookbookRunning.js

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import uiModule from './ui.js';
 import { _diagnose, _showDiagnosis, _clearDiagnosis } from './cookbook-diagnosis.js';
 import { registerMenuDismiss } from './escMenuStack.js';
+import { computeProgressSignal } from './cookbookProgressSignal.js';
 
 // Human-friendly badge label for a task's internal status. Avoids surfacing
 // the word "error" in the sidebar — a server the user stopped or one that
@@ -2443,7 +2444,11 @@ async function _reconnectTask(el, task) {
             // back to %/aggregate only when no byte counter is present.
             const _byteMatches = [...snapshot.matchAll(/([\d.]+\s?[KMGT])B?\s*\/\s*[\d.]+\s?[KMGT]B?/gi)];
             const _bytes = _byteMatches.length ? _byteMatches[_byteMatches.length - 1][1].replace(/\s/g, '') : null;
-            const curProgress = _bytes || (_dlAgg != null ? String(_dlAgg) : (lastPct || '0'));
+            // When there's no byte counter (pip resolve / native build phase of a
+            // dependency install), key off the output tail so new build lines count
+            // as progress — otherwise a long quiet build is falsely declared stale
+            // and restarted mid-build, looping forever (#1568).
+            const curProgress = computeProgressSignal(_bytes, _dlAgg, lastPct, snapshot);
             const _fetchPctMatches = [...snapshot.matchAll(/Fetching\s+\d+\s+files:\s*(\d+)%/g)];
             const _fetchPct = _fetchPctMatches.length ? parseInt(_fetchPctMatches[_fetchPctMatches.length - 1][1]) : null;
             const _startupStalled = !_bytes && ((_dlAgg === 0) || (_fetchPct === 0)) && curProgress === '0';