dashboard: show meta-update progress in the META INPUTS panel

post_meta_update returns 200 immediately and runs the nix flake
update + agent-rebuild ripple in a background task, so the META
INPUTS panel looked idle for the whole multi-minute window (#259).

Track in-flight runs with a Coordinator atomic counter, exposed via
an RAII MetaUpdateGuard held across run_meta_update. Surface it as
the meta_update_running snapshot field plus a MetaUpdateRunning SSE
event (flipped only when the count crosses 0, so concurrent runs
flip the flag once). The panel shows a pulsing in-progress banner
and disables the update button while a run is active.

hive-c0re/assets/app.js

@@ -454,11 +454,18 @@
   // avoids ordering races between a same-tick destroy + purge.
   let tombstonesState = [];
   let metaInputsState = [];
+  // True while a dashboard-triggered meta-update (flake lock bump +
+  // agent rebuild ripple) runs in the background. Cold-loaded from
+  // `s.meta_update_running`, then flipped live by the
+  // `meta_update_running` event. Drives the META INPUTS panel's
+  // disabled "updating…" state (issue #259).
+  let metaUpdateRunning = false;
   function syncTombstonesFromSnapshot(s) {
     tombstonesState = (s.tombstones || []).slice();
   }
   function syncMetaInputsFromSnapshot(s) {
     metaInputsState = (s.meta_inputs || []).slice();
+    metaUpdateRunning = !!s.meta_update_running;
   }
   function applyTombstonesChanged(ev) {
     tombstonesState = (ev.tombstones || []).slice();
@@ -468,6 +475,10 @@
     metaInputsState = (ev.inputs || []).slice();
     renderMetaInputsFromState();
   }
+  function applyMetaUpdateRunning(ev) {
+    metaUpdateRunning = !!ev.running;
+    renderMetaInputsFromState();
+  }
   function renderTombstonesFromState() {
     renderTombstones({ tombstones: tombstonesState });
   }
@@ -1482,6 +1493,11 @@
       root.append(el('p', { class: 'empty' }, 'meta repo not seeded yet'));
       return;
     }
+    if (metaUpdateRunning) {
+      root.append(el('p', { class: 'meta-update-running' },
+        '⏳ meta-update running — flake lock bump + affected agents rebuilding. '
+        + 'watch the agent cards for per-rebuild progress.'));
+    }
     const form = el('form', {
       method: 'POST',
       action: '/meta-update',
@@ -1528,11 +1544,13 @@
       type: 'submit',
       class: 'btn btn-meta-update',
       disabled: '',
-    }, '◆ UPD4TE & R3BU1LD');
+    }, metaUpdateRunning ? '⏳ UPD4T1NG…' : '◆ UPD4TE & R3BU1LD');
     form.append(btn);
     function refreshDisabled() {
       const any = form.querySelectorAll('input[data-meta-input]:checked').length > 0;
-      if (any) btn.removeAttribute('disabled');
+      // Stay disabled while an update is already in flight — no
+      // stacking a second run on top of the rebuild ripple.
+      if (any && !metaUpdateRunning) btn.removeAttribute('disabled');
       else btn.setAttribute('disabled', '');
     }
     form.addEventListener('change', refreshDisabled);
@@ -1857,6 +1875,7 @@
         container_removed:       (ev) => { applyContainerRemoved(ev); },
         tombstones_changed:      (ev) => { applyTombstonesChanged(ev); },
         meta_inputs_changed:     (ev) => { applyMetaInputsChanged(ev); },
+        meta_update_running:     (ev) => { applyMetaUpdateRunning(ev); },
       },
       // Both history backfill and live frames flow through here, so the
       // inbox section ends up populated correctly on first paint and

hive-c0re/assets/dashboard.css

@@ -446,6 +446,17 @@ code {
   opacity: 0.35;
   cursor: not-allowed;
 }
+/* In-progress banner for the META INPUTS panel: shown while a
+   dashboard-triggered meta-update runs in the background (issue #259). */
+.meta-update-running {
+  margin: 0 0 0.7em;
+  padding: 0.4em 0.7em;
+  border: 1px solid var(--purple);
+  background: rgba(203, 166, 247, 0.12);
+  color: var(--purple);
+  font-size: 0.85em;
+  animation: badge-pulse 1.6s ease-in-out infinite;
+}
 .history-note {
   margin-left: 1.8em;
   margin-top: 0.2em;