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The two items aimed at pointing GUI at a real veloxd instead of mockd.
rpc/event_hub — per-subscription fan-out shared by both transports.
subscribe() registers a connection with no interest; set_filter()
(session.subscribe, replaces not adds) turns on event kinds and an
optional per-task id filter; publish() delivers a pre-built
notification to every matching subscriber. session.subscribe on both
UdsServer and WsServer now does the real thing — registers/updates a
subscription, tears it down in close_conn.
sched/scheduler — the on_engine_state hook now actually publishes:
- transition() is the one place a task's row changes state; it reads
the store's own prior row for previousState (authoritative
regardless of engine/scheduler timing), writes the error columns,
and — when a hub is supplied — publishes event.task.state with
{taskId, state, previousState, summary, error}. Wired into every
transition: scheduler-driven (admission -> probing, resume ->
connecting, pause) and engine-reported (on_engine_state).
- progress_snapshot(): one row per task the engine is tracking
(EnginePort::progress(), a new interface method backed by
DownloadHandle::progress()), plus a store side-effect
(Tasks::update_progress) so download.list/get stay current between
state transitions. Returns rows; does NOT publish itself — batching
into one array message is the caller's job, per the schema's
x-maxRateHz: 4 and AGENT-DAEMON.md item 5 ("one message per task per
tick burns a core"). main.cpp's 250 ms timerfd is that caller: one
event.task.progress per tick, only when there's something to say.
dispatcher::on_download_add now publishes event.task.added (schema:
"summary is always present so a client can insert the row without a
follow-up download.get").
store/categories, store/queues — the two D3 handlers GUI's panels
call. category.list projects the six seeded built-ins; queue.list
derives taskIds from tasks.queue_id/queue_position (Queue's own schema
note: a queue's stored row never carries membership, download.update
/ queue.reorder do).
Verified live end to end against tools/testserver: a subscribed client
sees event.task.added on add, then the full event.task.state sequence
(queued -> probing -> connecting -> downloading -> assembling ->
verifying -> complete) with correct previousState at every step, and
real category.list / queue.list results.
Tests: event_hub (filter-by-kind, filter-by-task-id, replace-not-add,
unsubscribe), store_categories_queues, plus new sched_scheduler cases
for event.task.state publishing and progress_snapshot's store
side-effect. 38 daemon/cli tests green; sched_scheduler / event_hub /
ws_server / uds_roundtrip TSan-clean.
deferrals.md: D5 mostly closed (event.task.removed and the
still-unpublished events wait on their owning D3 handlers); D3 down to
the remaining download.* verbs, rules/settings/limiter/schedule,
queue mutation, category mutation, grabber, media.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Upd9WhG9oppieig5nRDLig
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.