rajamesandClaude Opus 5.5
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A v4 node no longer reads its own command line or prints a prompt. Its host puts a line of text in the node's input buffer and starts it at (LINE); the node interprets it and stops at (IDLE), leaving in (LINE-STATUS) how it ended: completed, an error, or QUIT. The host says " ok" or " ERROR" and prompts, as the kernel's REPL does for a v3 VM. A line may be 1024 characters, a block, as v3's. Ruled 2026-10-05 (V3-PARITY.md 1b); design ENGINE.md 3.1. - quit.v4: (REPL), the node's prompt loop, is gone; (LINE) (IDLE) (DONE) - image.h/.c: v4_line_begin, v4_line_done, v4_line_status; the node is idle at switch-on - boot.c: v4_boot_line, the one loop the hosted binary, the kernel and the capsule loader hand a line with; the code that took " ok" and the prompt back out of the node's output is gone - hosted.c, sk_v4.c: the prompt and the line editing are the host's - test_host_quit.c: the tests are the node's host; two tests of the old 80-character prompt line now test a whole line, 1024 and 1025 characters Verified: make -C v4 test passes at both widths; hosted-check passes on three ISAs; clean qemu with STARFORTH_V4=1 on amd64, aarch64 and riscv64 passes POST (550 of 550) with the same hashes as hosted, and three lines typed at each bare-metal prompt through the serial port are answered correctly (logs/20261005-180922, -181152, -181541). Still the lone node: kernel_main.c starts it before the fleet tables. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
StarForth / LithosAnanke Documentation
This is the lithosananke branch: the bare-metal StarKernel side of the project
(contrast master, which is the hosted-VM-only side). Documentation follows the
two-tier model described in docs/CLAUDE.md: formal/ is the polished,
citable LaTeX tier; working/ is living design notes and drafts that feed it.
Everything else in this directory is branch- or subsystem-specific material that
doesn't fit either tier.
Layout
- formal/ — Three-volume LaTeX documentation set (research volumes,
practitioner books, standalone reports) plus the
scraps/fragment library it's assembled from. Audience: patent counsel, SSRN reviewers, licensees, hobbyists with hardware in hand. Seeformal/CLAUDE.mdfor authoring conventions. - working/ — Living documents: architecture design notes, DoE
experiment logs, hardware/platform notes, draft specs, academic-paper source
material, and an archive of superseded docs. Source material for
formal/. - 03-architecture/ — Tripod VM architecture constraints (Hera/Hermes/Artemis) and the word-level ACL system design.
- lithosananke/ — LithosAnanke kernel branch documentation: milestone roadmap, system architecture, HAL reference, kernel command-line argument design, and the amd64 APIC-timer ISR postmortem.
- birthing/ — VM birthing plan and status for the Hera-spawns- Hermes/Artemis constellation, plus three-architecture QEMU acceptance logs.
- patent/ — Provisional patent application source. Legal hold — ask Bob before touching anything in this directory.
- api/ — Generated Doxygen tag file and warnings log (gitignored; not part of the tracked doc tree).
- pptx/ — Elevator-pitch and deep-dive slide decks for different audiences (technical, non-technical, academic, PhD-level).
Current Active Work
- LithosAnanke M7/M7.1 — VM parity validation and init capsule architecture.
See
lithosananke/README.mdandlithosananke/M7.1.md. - Word-level ACL system — Phase 6 complete on
master; Phase 7 (LithosAnanke parity) is the next step. See03-architecture/word-acl/README.md. - Tripod VMs — Hera (governor), Hermes (messenger), Artemis (memory/block
storage). See
03-architecture/tripod/README.mdandbirthing/.
Contributing
- Place new material in
working/first; promote toformal/only when it's ready to be cited (seeformal/CLAUDE.mdfor promotion criteria). - Never touch
patent/,formal/patent/,formal/scraps/legal/, orworking/legal/without Bob's explicit instruction. - Add a
README.mdto any new category-level subdirectory, following the format used throughout this tree: orientation paragraph + bullet list of real files with one-line descriptions.