samiandClaude Sonnet 5
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Two run.sh fixes plus the xfail prune, all requested together:
1. VELOX_PAIR_AUTO=1 for the isolated veloxd. Pairing is the D1 dev stub
(EnvAutoApprover) and denies without it, so session.pair never issued
a token and the WS half of the veloxd step could never even connect.
2. WS_PORT was hardcoded to 52080 with no free-port search, so one leaked
mockd made every future run fail EADDRINUSE. free_port() binds :0 and
asks the kernel instead. The EXIT trap's stop() used `pkill -P "$pid"`,
which only reaps direct children — tsx's actual listener is often a
grandchild, which that missed and left holding the port. Every server
(mockd, slow mockd, veloxd) now launches under `setsid`, making it the
leader of its own process group, so stop() does `kill -TERM -"$pid"`
(a process-group kill) and reaches everything it spawned in one shot.
3. Pruned the xfail list now that D2, D4b and most of D3 have landed.
Pruning surfaced two more bugs than expected, both in the test harness
itself, not veloxd — worth recording since they were indistinguishable
from real daemon hangs until isolated:
- errors/session.hello.version-mismatch.json documents that the *server*
closes the connection after replying (correct, intended behavior). The
harness replays every fixture on one shared connection per transport,
so once this fixture ran, every later UDS fixture sent into the dead
socket and just sat there until its own timeout — including ones still
on the xfail list, which applyXfail waved through as "expected -32603"
regardless of the real reason. Fixed with a `closesConnection` fixture
flag: replay() reconnects (fresh session.hello) right after such a
fixture instead of leaving the rest of the run to time out one by one.
This is what was actually behind queue.*/session.*/download.remove
appearing to hang — none of them do; verified individually and via a
raw probe script before finding the real cause.
- category.remove.json (deletes the "firmware" category) sorted before
category.upsert.json (creates it) alphabetically, so it was failing
-32602 "no such category" against a fresh DB — never a daemon bug.
Added it to DESTRUCTIVE so it now replays after every other fixture.
Also fixed while verifying "confirm each really passes": download.addBatch.json's
`defaults.categoryId` was "compressed", a category nothing ever creates —
real veloxd correctly enforces the FK on tasks.category_id, so all three
batch items failed instead of the two expected. Changed to "programs" (a
migration-seeded builtin).
Of the 15 fixtures named for pruning, 10 turned out to cleanly pass and
are gone from the list entirely: download.pause/resume/start/cancel,
download.remove, download.addBatch, queue.upsert/stop, download.probe's
success path (D2, including errors/download.probe.probe-failed.json),
and category.upsert. Two do NOT cleanly pass and are kept, with reasons
rewritten to match what's actually happening now instead of the stale D3
text: download.probe.json (see below) and errors/download.provideAuth.not-found.json,
a real bug — on_download_provideAuth never checks the task exists, so an
unknown taskId gets a normal `{ok:false}` result instead of -32010.
Five more fixtures newly needed xfail entries to reach green, none of
them stubs:
- category.list.json — documented gap (deferrals.md's D3a note): the
categories table has no mimeTypes/sortOrder columns.
- download.probe.json, download.get.json, download.list.json,
session.hello.json — not bugs. Each golden depicts a richer lifecycle
state (a probed/in-progress download, a daemon with media/grabber/
Secret Service implemented) than this harness's bound tasks, which are
always fresh and never started, can produce. Optional/omit-if-absent
fields (effectiveUrl, requiresAuth, capabilities) are correctly absent;
the mismatch is against the golden's illustrative values, not the
contract.
- queue.start.json, category.remove.json — same class: startedTaskIds /
reassignedTaskIds are correctly empty because this run's queue/category
have no real membership.
`ctest -L conformance` is green: 100% (2/2), 81.7s (down from ~240s now
that pairing and the port/reconnect fixes remove the retries and the
5-10s timeouts the connection-death bug was producing).
One thing NOT fixed here, flagged for a follow-up decision rather than
touched mid-task: download.add.json's fixture is `startMode: "now"`
against a real, large (~6GB) Ubuntu ISO on the real internet, with
saveDir hardcoded to /home/sami/Downloads/Programs. Every run against a
real veloxd writes a real multi-GB file into that path — confirmed by
running this repeatedly during verification. Isolating the daemon's XDG
dirs doesn't isolate this. Worth its own change (startMode: "later"
would still exercise the add path without the transfer) but out of scope
for a fixture I wasn't asked to touch beyond what blocked this task.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SFeUKLbdHizrJjLBeK7ffz
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.