- session open: centered spinner in MessageList while chat.loading
- image paste/drop: imagesProcessing counter (chat store, shared);
  FilePreviewStrip shows spinner placeholder tiles where the resized
  previews will land
- file upload: indeterminate sliding bar instead of the fake static 60%
- send → run start gap: "Sending…" hint with spinner, cleared on
  stream_start / message_queued / stream end / error / session switch
- content-card images: skeleton with spinner until @load (reset on src
  change); wrapper keeps min-height while the img is empty

vitest 96 passed.

- client/ → old_webclient/ (vanilla JS client preserved as reference)
- webclient/ — new Vue 3 + Pinia webclient (source + dist build)
- vite.config.js: outDir changed to webclient/dist/
- main.py: serve /assets and /images from webclient/dist/,
  index.html from webclient/dist/index.html
- .gitignore: exclude webclient/node_modules/, include webclient/dist/

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>