samiandClaude Sonnet 5
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Closes build order items 7 (the systemd half) and 9 (D11 in deferrals.md). velox-nmhost (nmhost/src/main.cpp, 185 lines): a poll()-driven byte pump between Firefox's native-messaging framing on stdio (4-byte native-byte-order length prefix) and veloxd's own NDJSON framing on the Unix socket. Reframes each direction, no JSON parsing, no retry/backoff (the extension relaunches a fresh host on its own reconnect), exits the moment either side closes. Deliberately dependency-free — no veloxd_* library, no nlohmann_json — since it runs unconfined outside Firefox's sandbox regardless of packaging format. Two real bugs found and fixed while getting the integration test to actually pass rather than hang, both exactly the class of bug a "trivial pump" invites: 1. Never set the pumped fds non-blocking, so the "drain what's available" read loop blocked on its own second read() instead of returning to poll(). 2. stdin and stdout are two different descriptors (0 and 1), not one — an early draft polled POLLOUT on fd 0, which is opened read-only, so EOF and writability were never both observable through the same pollfd entry. packaging/nativehost/com.velox.host.json + its own README.md supersede AGENT-DAEMON.md's stale "four locations" line: spike S1 / ADR 0003 found only three manifest locations are real (~/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/ for BOTH deb/tarball and snap Firefox, /usr/lib/mozilla/... for deb/tarball only, the flatpak sandbox path) — the fourth, ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/..., is not read by snap Firefox at all. The README spells out the per-user-manifest / postinst enumeration implication for PKG/QA (postinst runs once as root; the two ~/-relative locations are per-user) and flags that docs/07-packaging.md's own install-layout line only shows the one root-owned path. Socket activation: rpc/systemd_activation.cpp is a from-scratch sd_listen_fds() (env vars only — LISTEN_PID/LISTEN_FDS, fd 3 — no libsystemd link) that UdsServer::start() checks first, skipping its own create/bind/chmod/listen when systemd already bound the socket. packaging/systemd/velox.socket + velox.service are the unit pair, verified both by systemd-analyze verify and by an actual fork/dup2/execve simulation of the activation handshake — a real session.hello round-tripped over the handed-off fd with no bind() ever called inside the daemon for that run. velox.service deliberately skips ProtectSystem=/ProtectHome=/ReadWritePaths=: saveTo.allowedRoots is user-configurable to anywhere on the filesystem, and a sandbox here would turn a legitimately-configured save location into an opaque EROFS/EACCES instead of the daemon's own clear -32011. cli/man/velox.1 documents the CLI as it actually exists today (add/ls/pause/resume/rm, --json) — the queue/settings subcommands AGENT-DAEMON.md's build order originally sketched aren't implemented in cli/src/main.cpp yet, so the page doesn't claim they are. Checked warning-free with groff -mandoc -ww -z. Full ctest: 57/57 (excluding the pre-existing, unrelated conformance failure noted in earlier commits). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GRDjHGgpYmMoPE2UFbe7pP
Velox Download Manager (VDM)
An IDM-class download manager for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: multi-segment accelerated HTTP(S) downloading, resume, categories and automatic file distribution, queues and scheduler, speed limiter, a Firefox extension that captures downloads automatically, and clipboard link capture.
Name is a placeholder. Binaries are
veloxd,velox-gui,velox,velox-nmhost. Rename before first release if you want something else — do it in M0, never later.
Status
Phase M0 — scaffolding. No implementation code exists yet. This repository currently contains the architecture, the wire contract, the roadmap, and one brief per build lane so that several agents can work in parallel without colliding.
Start here:
| Document | What it answers |
|---|---|
| docs/01-architecture.md | Process model, why four binaries, framework choices and why |
| docs/02-roadmap.md | Milestones M0–M7, what runs in parallel, exit gates |
| docs/03-gui-spec.md | IDM-parity UI: every window, dialog, column, menu |
| docs/04-engine-design.md | Segmentation, resume, buffers, rate limiting, disk I/O |
| docs/05-extension-spec.md | Firefox capture, transports, pairing, media grabber |
| docs/06-risks-and-spikes.md | Snap Firefox, Wayland clipboard, and the other landmines |
| docs/07-packaging.md | .deb/PPA, Flatpak, AMO signing, install layout |
| contracts/README.md | The interface. Both sides build against this |
| CLAUDE.md | Rules of engagement for agents working in this repo |
Per-lane briefs live in docs/agents/ — one per agent, each with an owned directory list, a definition of done, and the files it must never touch. To dispatch the agents, use docs/agents/PROMPTS.md — six copy-paste prompts plus the worktree commands and the wave order.
Architecture in one picture
┌────────────────────┐ native messaging (stdio JSON) ┌──────────────┐
│ Firefox extension │◄───────────── or ──────────────►│ velox-nmhost │
│ (MV3, TS) │ loopback WS 127.0.0.1 + token └──────┬───────┘
└────────────────────┘ │
│
┌────────────────────┐ ▼
│ velox-gui (Qt 6) │◄──── JSON-RPC 2.0 over Unix socket ──► ┌─────────────┐
└────────────────────┘ $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/velox/velox.sock │ veloxd │
│ (daemon) │
┌────────────────────┐ │ │
│ velox (CLI) │◄───────────────────────────────────────┤ libveloxcore│
└────────────────────┘ └──────┬──────┘
│
SQLite + sparse files
The daemon owns all state and all sockets. The GUI is a view — closing it does not stop a download. The extension never touches the disk; it hands URL + headers + cookies to the daemon and gets a task id back.
Repository layout
vdm/
├── contracts/ ⭐ Wire contract: JSON Schema, fixtures, codegen. Frozen per version.
├── core/ C++23 libveloxcore — engine. No UI, no RPC, no SQL.
├── daemon/ C++23 veloxd — RPC server, scheduler, queues, SQLite store.
├── gui/ C++23 velox-gui — Qt 6 Widgets, IDM-parity UI.
├── cli/ C++23 velox — scriptable client.
├── nmhost/ C++23 velox-nmhost — Firefox native-messaging bridge (thin pipe).
├── extension/ TS Firefox MV3 WebExtension.
├── tools/
│ ├── mockd/ TS mock daemon — lets GUI + extension work before veloxd exists.
│ ├── testserver/ Deliberately hostile HTTP server (no Range, flaky, redirects, auth).
│ ├── bench/ Throughput and CPU benchmarks.
│ └── fuzz/ libFuzzer targets for parsers.
├── tests/
│ ├── conformance/ Protocol suite. Every lane must pass it. Gate for merging.
│ ├── integration/ veloxd + testserver.
│ └── e2e/ Playwright: real Firefox + real daemon + real file on disk.
├── packaging/ debian/, flatpak/, appimage/, native-host manifests.
└── docs/ Everything above, plus adr/ and agents/.
Toolchain bootstrap
Surveyed on this machine 2026-09-09 — most of it is already installed:
| Present | Version |
|---|---|
| git · cmake · ninja · g++ · gdb | 2.53.0 · 4.2.3 · — · 15.2.0 (C++23 ready) |
| qt6-base-dev · qt6-tools-dev · qt6-tools-dev-tools | ✓ |
| libcurl4-openssl-dev · libsqlite3-dev · nlohmann-json3-dev · libssl-dev | ✓ |
| libavformat-dev · libavcodec-dev · ffmpeg | ✓ |
| clang-format · clang-tidy · python3 · pkg-config | ✓ |
| python3-jsonschema · python3-referencing (conformance static runner) | ✓ |
Only these four are missing:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y \
qt6-svg-dev \ # GUI: SVG icon rendering
libsecret-1-dev \ # DAEMON: Secret Service for site logins
nodejs npm \ # EXT + PROTO: extension build, mockd, conformance runner
clang # optional: libFuzzer targets in M7
Node in the 26.04 archive may lag; if the extension toolchain needs 22+, use nvm.
Verify with cmake --preset dev && cmake --build --preset dev once lane CORE lands its
first target. Note CMake 4.2.3 is installed — newer than the 3.28 floor in
CMakeLists.txt, and it hard-errors on cmake_minimum_required below 3.5, so no
dependency may ship a pre-3.5 CMake file.