Your box, your console, your evidence

Everything runs on your machine. The console opens in your browser, the panel sits on your desktop, and nothing leaves the box unless you export it.

Setup — ten minutes, one machine

1. Place the estate. Put the zday-lab folder where it will live (for example C:\zday-lab). It needs Python 3.11+ and nothing else for the core watch — the panel's graph uses two common imaging libraries.
2. Start the supervisor.

   cd C:\zday-lab
   python api.py 8788

   The API, the watcher and the overseeing eye come up together. The overseer seals a manifest of every organ and heartbeats each pass.
3. Open the console. Browse to http://127.0.0.1:8788/console?key=YOUR-KEY — your key is issued with the install. The address bootstraps the key and strips it from the bar. Every keyed request after that is sealed into the audit chain.
4. Start the desktop panel.

   pythonw desk_hud.py

   A small window docks on your desktop: agents on this box, the watch graph, the critic's verdict. It is the proof-of-watch you can glance at.
5. Watch a normal day. The homepage answers the daily questions: how many agents are on the box, which countries they talk to, anything new, anything drifting. Quiet is normal — quiet with a heartbeat is the point.
6. When something happens, open the dossier. An incident card names who, where and why, and links the sealed evidence rows. Mark it REAL or NOISE — your verdict is itself sealed and teaches the learners. Unsure is allowed; it is never treated as a signal.
7. Export when someone asks. The export builds a zip: incident dossier, CSVs, receipts, manifest, public key. Hand it to an auditor, an insurer or a customer — they verify it without an account and without calling us.