CORE stage 8 merged, so vdm::Engine is linkable. This closes D4a and narrows D4b: `velox add <url>` now actually downloads. - sched/engine_port_core.hpp — the real EnginePort: forwards to a live vdm::Engine, keeps the DownloadHandle per task for pause/resume/ cancel/provide_auth/decide/refresh_url, drives set_task_order / set_max_active_segments / set_host_segment_cap via engine.segment_budget(). CORE confirmed the admission model: DAEMON decides when to start(); the engine's own download_task calls register_task/set_want internally — DAEMON never touches per-task budget calls. EnginePort gains release(TaskId) so the port drops a handle when the task goes terminal. - rpc/event_loop — EventLoop::post(fn): thread-safe, runs fn on the loop thread next iteration. The marshaller for engine-thread callbacks. - main.cpp — constructs vdm::Engine + EnginePortCore + Scheduler (post_to_loop = loop.post). At startup: reconcile_after_restart() (ADR 0013 §5), reload_config(), tick(). A 1 s timerfd on the loop re-runs tick() (schedule windows, missed nudges); download.add nudges via dispatcher.set_on_mutation. End-to-end verified against tools/testserver: `velox add http://127.0.0.1:.../file/512K` -> task queued -> scheduler admits -> engine downloads 524288 bytes -> complete, file on disk. First byte-path all the way through the project. safepath-adversarial.md: re-verified per its own note — CORE landed O_NOFOLLOW on the target open (core/src/io/sparse_file.cpp), so the leaf-symlink TOCTOU is now closed; residual is down to one intermediate-dir gap (documented post-M1 chase). 36 daemon/cli tests green; scheduler + uds_roundtrip TSan-clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Upd9WhG9oppieig5nRDLig
Owner: lane DAEMON. See ../docs/agents/AGENT-DAEMON.md. Owns all state: RPC, scheduler, queues, SQLite, pairing.