Cortex is installing itself

Every step below names what it's doing and why — this is the same live, streaming pattern as an AI-Quorum query, applied to your install. Nothing is hidden behind a spinner.

Installing · 22s elapsed

Honest latency: a step shown as running is actually still running — nothing here fakes progress. If a step is slow, it stays "running," not stalled or silently skipped.

DONE

Provision runtime

Spinning up the compute this install runs on.

4s
RUNNING

Install engine subsystems

Orchestration, Agent Manager, and the KB engine — the core machinery that runs your business on Cortex.

18s so far
QUEUED

Seed identity + capability ledger

Setting up the ledger so Cortex can prove which model is allowed to do what.

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QUEUED

Wire model / wrapper layer

Connecting the model providers behind a single wrapper, so nothing in your business logic talks to a vendor SDK directly.

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QUEUED

Health-check

Confirming everything that just installed actually works before handing you the setup questions.

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Auto-advances to Guided Setup the moment the last step finishes — or continue now once install completes.

Continue to setup

On screen	Where it comes from	What it means to you
Step status chips (DONE / RUNNING / QUEUED)	the actual state of each install step, reported live by the install process	tells you exactly what's finished, what's happening now, and what's next
"Why" line under each step	a plain-English reason for that step	explains what that piece of Cortex does, not just its name
Elapsed time	the real clock time each step has taken so far	flags if a step is taking unusually long
"Installing · Xs elapsed" live badge	the running total since install started	one-glance read on overall progress
Honest-latency note	a promise about how this screen behaves	tells you a slow step will show as still running, never faked or hidden
"Continue to setup" button	whether the last step has actually finished	unlocks once install is really done, not before

On screen

Where it comes from

What it means to you

Step status chips (DONE / RUNNING / QUEUED)

the actual state of each install step, reported live by the install process

tells you exactly what's finished, what's happening now, and what's next

"Why" line under each step

a plain-English reason for that step

explains what that piece of Cortex does, not just its name

Elapsed time

the real clock time each step has taken so far

flags if a step is taking unusually long

"Installing · Xs elapsed" live badge

the running total since install started

one-glance read on overall progress

Honest-latency note

a promise about how this screen behaves

tells you a slow step will show as still running, never faked or hidden

"Continue to setup" button

whether the last step has actually finished

unlocks once install is really done, not before

Cortex is installing itself

What's on this screen