feat(node): transfer leases, pools and a queue for downloads and uploads

Step 2 of ~/next/improve-downloads.md. A download is invisible to the node: it
is a series of independent `file_req` messages, with nothing saying one started
or ended, so there is nothing to count and nothing to cap. The lease is that
missing object.

`meshbay_node/transfers.py` holds the decisions and has no asyncio and no
transport in it, on purpose. The failure modes this has to survive — a slot the
node never gets back, a client waiting on a grant the node has forgotten — are
races through a DataChannel and unprovable there; here the clock is a parameter
and every method returns what changed, so the caller does the I/O and the tests
drive the worst case directly.

What it decides:

- two pools, downloads and uploads, separate from the stream pool: different
  resources with different costs, and merging them makes both caps meaningless;
- per-member cap checked *before* the node-wide one, so a member at their own
  limit queues behind their own transfers rather than holding a slot a second
  member has none of. Per account across their devices, or the cap becomes a
  function of how many tabs somebody opens;
- a queue that skips a member at their cap instead of waiting for them —
  granting strictly in arrival order lets one member's limit stall everyone;
- `tr` drawn by the client and idempotent, which is what makes a reconnect safe;
- bounded per member, because unbounded queues are how a node runs out of
  memory politely.

Every way a slot comes back, with the session teardown as the one that matters
(a closed tab, a quit browser and a dead network all arrive at
`shutdown_tasks`, and none of them needs a timer): explicit close, session
gone, a grant nobody took up in 30 s passed to the next in line, and a granted
transfer silent for 120 s reclaimed with its peer told, so a widget can offer a
resume rather than sit on a lie.

`GET /api/transfers` is the operator's window: when somebody reports a transfer
stuck at waiting, it is the only thing that says whether the node ever had them
in a queue — a log cannot, when the symptom is that nothing is happening. It
carries no filename and no path, which a test pins, because this is exactly
where one would be tempting.

Three things found while writing it, two of them mine:

- the randomised property test rejected `in_use <= cap` at once, and it was
  right to: lowering a cap never interrupts a running transfer, so the count
  legitimately sits above the new value. The invariant is that a *new* grant
  never happens past the cap;
- the sweeper was started with `self._spawn`, which ties a task to one
  session's set. It died with whichever peer opened the first transfer, and
  every other peer's abandoned lease then stopped being reclaimed — a node that
  fills up over days with nothing in the log. It belongs to the node now, with
  its strong reference on the transport context;
- the pools are node-wide while `_peer_registry` is per group (finding H1), so
  a slot freed in one group can grant one in another and the peer to notify is
  not in the notifier's registry. Silently wrong in the first version.

Nothing enforces a lease yet: `file_req` is untouched, no client asks, and the
node grants everything. That is step 4's flag day, and this lands alone.

1148 node, 793 hub, 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST

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diff --git a/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/protocol.py b/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/protocol.py
index e092353..4890d3b 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/protocol.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/protocol.py
@@ -96,6 +96,20 @@ class MNP:
     # never serve the GEK in plaintext. Members obtain it by unwrapping their own
     # ECIES bundle. The constants lingered after the handlers were deleted, leaving
     # the wire contract looking as though the endpoint still existed.
+    # Transfer slots. A download is otherwise invisible to the node -- a series
+    # of independent file_req messages, with nothing saying one started or
+    # ended -- so there is nothing to count and nothing to cap. The lease is
+    # that missing object: `tr` is drawn by the client like `upload_id`, covers
+    # a job rather than a file, and dies with the connection.
+    #
+    # One reply type with a state field, not four: a client that must switch on
+    # the message type to discover it is still waiting is a client that will get
+    # one branch wrong. Carries no filename and no path -- `tr` is opaque,
+    # `bytes` and `chunks` are numbers -- so it stays in clear like
+    # INDEX_PROGRESS, for the same stated reason.
+    TRANSFER_OPEN    = "transfer_open"     # client -> node: I want a slot
+    TRANSFER_CLOSE   = "transfer_close"    # client -> node: I am done with it
+    TRANSFER_STATE   = "transfer_state"    # node -> client: granted/queued/closed
     FILE_UPLOAD      = "file_upload"       # client pushes file chunk to node
     FILE_UPLOAD_ACK  = "file_upload_ack"   # node acknowledges chunk receipt
     DIR_CREATE       = "dir_create"        # client → node: make a directory