diff --git a/v2/crates/cog-person-count/cog/README.md b/v2/crates/cog-person-count/cog/README.md
index 04774ade..48da6840 100644
--- a/v2/crates/cog-person-count/cog/README.md
+++ b/v2/crates/cog-person-count/cog/README.md
@@ -47,6 +47,17 @@ Downstream consumers can render the **most-likely count** when confidence is hig
 
 `cog-person-count health` will load the real safetensors and report `backend: candle-cpu` rather than `backend: stub`, so the cog-gateway can verify the model loaded — but operators should treat the v0.0.1 count outputs as scaffold-validation rather than production data. The 2.36 MB binary + 392 KB weights + 16 KB ONNX are all real and reusable as soon as more data lands.
 
+## Relationship to the in-process `csi.rs::score_to_person_count` heuristic
+
+This Cog runs **out-of-process** alongside `wifi-densepose-sensing-server`. The two are complementary, not competing:
+
+- The sensing-server keeps emitting its existing slot-count heuristic from `csi.rs::score_to_person_count` (PR #491's RollingP95 + `dedup_factor`). This is the **fallback path** — operators who don't install `cog-person-count` still get a count number, just a less calibrated one.
+- `cog-person-count` (this binary) polls the same `/api/v1/sensing/latest` endpoint, runs the learned `count_v1` model on each window, and emits `person.count` events on stdout. The appliance's `cognitum-cog-gateway` routes those events to the dashboard via the standard ADR-220 cog-event channel.
+
+Operators choose by **installing or not installing** this Cog — no sensing-server rebuild required. Downstream consumers (UI, fleet automation, alerting rules) can subscribe to whichever event stream they prefer.
+
+The architecture decision is documented in [ADR-103 §"Deployment"](../../../../docs/adr/ADR-103-learned-multi-person-counter.md#deployment) and matches the cog/sensing-server boundary established for `cog-pose-estimation` (ADR-101).
+
 ## Security
 
 The cog has a very small attack surface — by design, it's a pure consumer of CSI data, not a server:
diff --git a/v2/crates/cog-person-count/src/lib.rs b/v2/crates/cog-person-count/src/lib.rs
index d5d107aa..168696cc 100644
--- a/v2/crates/cog-person-count/src/lib.rs
+++ b/v2/crates/cog-person-count/src/lib.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 pub mod fusion;
 pub mod inference;
 pub mod publisher;
+pub mod runtime;
 
 pub const COG_ID: &str = "person-count";
 pub const COG_VERSION: &str = env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION");
diff --git a/v2/crates/cog-person-count/src/main.rs b/v2/crates/cog-person-count/src/main.rs
index 976d2098..5bbb030b 100644
--- a/v2/crates/cog-person-count/src/main.rs
+++ b/v2/crates/cog-person-count/src/main.rs
@@ -103,10 +103,31 @@ fn cmd_health() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
     Ok(())
 }
 
-fn cmd_run(_config_path: PathBuf) -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
-    // Long-running mode is wired in the v0.0.1 release follow-up — same
-    // approach as cog-pose-estimation's runtime.rs. For now, the cog
-    // satisfies the four-verb contract; downstream consumers integrate
-    // via the in-process `InferenceEngine` API.
-    Err("`run` subcommand wiring is pending v0.0.1 — for now consume via the InferenceEngine library API".into())
+fn cmd_run(config_path: PathBuf) -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    let raw = std::fs::read_to_string(&config_path)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("failed to read config at {}: {}", config_path.display(), e))?;
+    let cfg: RunConfig = serde_json::from_str(&raw)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("failed to parse config at {}: {}", config_path.display(), e))?;
+
+    let engine = InferenceEngine::with_weights(cfg.model_path.as_deref())?;
+    publisher::run_started(
+        COG_ID,
+        &cfg.sensing_url,
+        cfg.poll_ms,
+        &cfg.model_path
+            .as_ref()
+            .map(|p| p.display().to_string())
+            .unwrap_or_else(|| "(auto-discover)".to_string()),
+    );
+
+    let rt = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
+        .enable_all()
+        .build()?;
+    rt.block_on(cog_person_count::runtime::run_loop(
+        cog_person_count::runtime::RunConfig {
+            sensing_url: cfg.sensing_url,
+            poll_ms: cfg.poll_ms,
+        },
+        engine,
+    ))
 }
diff --git a/v2/crates/cog-person-count/src/runtime.rs b/v2/crates/cog-person-count/src/runtime.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dfc04376
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v2/crates/cog-person-count/src/runtime.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+//! Long-running inference loop. Polls the appliance's sensing-server,
+//! slides a CSI window, runs the count head, and emits `person.count`
+//! events. Same shape as `cog-pose-estimation::runtime`.
+//!
+//! Multi-node fusion is single-node only in v0.0.1 — the appliance's
+//! `/api/v1/sensing/latest` endpoint already aggregates across nodes
+//! before serving, so per-cog fusion is deferred until each node ships
+//! raw frames separately (ADR-103 §"Multi-node fusion" v0.2.0).
+
+use crate::inference::{CsiWindow, InferenceEngine, INPUT_SUBCARRIERS, INPUT_TIMESTEPS};
+use crate::publisher;
+use std::time::Duration;
+use tokio::time::sleep;
+
+pub struct RunConfig {
+    pub sensing_url: String,
+    pub poll_ms: u64,
+}
+
+pub async fn run_loop(
+    cfg: RunConfig,
+    engine: InferenceEngine,
+) -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    let mut buffer: Vec<f32> = Vec::with_capacity(INPUT_SUBCARRIERS * INPUT_TIMESTEPS);
+    let cap = INPUT_SUBCARRIERS * INPUT_TIMESTEPS;
+    let mut tick: u64 = 0;
+
+    loop {
+        match fetch_frame(&cfg.sensing_url).await {
+            Ok(amplitudes) => {
+                tick += 1;
+                buffer.extend(amplitudes);
+                while buffer.len() > 2 * cap {
+                    let extra = buffer.len() - cap;
+                    buffer.drain(0..extra);
+                }
+                if buffer.len() >= cap {
+                    let window = CsiWindow { data: buffer[buffer.len() - cap..].to_vec() };
+                    if let Ok(pred) = engine.infer(&window) {
+                        // v0.0.1 ships single-node — fusion is a no-op for
+                        // N=1. v0.2.0 will append additional per-node
+                        // predictions to a vec and call
+                        // `fusion::fuse_confidence_weighted` before emit.
+                        publisher::person_count(tick, &pred, 1);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            Err(e) => {
+                tracing::warn!(error = %e, "sensing-server fetch failed");
+            }
+        }
+        sleep(Duration::from_millis(cfg.poll_ms)).await;
+    }
+}
+
+async fn fetch_frame(url: &str) -> Result<Vec<f32>, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    let url = url.to_string();
+    let body = tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || -> Result<String, ureq::Error> {
+        Ok(ureq::get(&url).call()?.into_string()?)
+    })
+    .await??;
+    let json: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_str(&body)?;
+    let snapshot = json.get("snapshot").unwrap_or(&json);
+    let nodes = snapshot
+        .get("nodes")
+        .and_then(|v| v.as_array())
+        .ok_or("missing nodes[]")?;
+    let amplitude = nodes
+        .first()
+        .and_then(|n| n.get("amplitude"))
+        .and_then(|v| v.as_array())
+        .ok_or("missing nodes[0].amplitude[]")?;
+    Ok(amplitude
+        .iter()
+        .filter_map(|v| v.as_f64().map(|f| f as f32))
+        .collect())
+}