Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Reachability verified live before writing any code, per this project's own standing rule (grep cannot establish reachability alone): FIND SEND-ELEVATE-REQUEST / FIND ELEVATE-GRANT / FIND CH-REQUEST all resolve on a live Hera boot, though grep across capsules/experiments/docs found zero callers of SEND-ELEVATE-REQUEST -- a real, complete, directly-callable entrypoint (H.5/H.8's own design) with no current automatic trigger, not dead code. Correction to a prior finding, made in the course of this check: task 3.8's write-up claimed "Hera's own pre-existing inability to load common:messaging.4th" -- false. capsules/init.4th (Hera's own MAMA_INIT capsule) loads it directly, and SEND-ELEVATE-REQUEST lives and works in her dictionary right now. Task 3.8's own actual scope is unaffected by this correction. Cutover: SEND-ELEVATE-REQUEST (messaging.4th) no longer ends in CH-REQUEST's COMMON-CH/MSG-SEND path; it now calls KH-ELEVATE-SEND (repl.c), a new C word wrapping sk_hermes_send_one(), registered unconditionally for every VM. from/to are derived from the calling VM and sk_get_mama_vm() directly in C, never taken from the stack -- a real correctness improvement over CH-REQUEST's own initiator-only gate, which only existed because a caller COULD pass the wrong from value; deriving it in C makes that spoof structurally impossible. SK_HERMES_MSG_TYPE_ELEVATE_REQUEST reuses ELEVATE-REQUEST's own value (8), same partition-rule reasoning as tasks 3.8/3.9. Delivery is unchanged task 3.4 machinery. No new static-buffer lifetime caveat -- the payload-aliasing fix landed before this task started. CH-REQUEST (messaging.4th) is now dead code, its one real caller just removed -- found, not fixed, per Captain Bob's Law. Verified live on all three architectures: 0 0 0 0 S" DUP" SEND-ELEVATE-REQUEST (deliberately-invalid pubkey, so ELEVATE-GRANT correctly refuses -- the check is the pipeline running, not a grant succeeding) fires the evidence line and completes cleanly, DUP unaffected afterward. Zero UNKNOWN WORD, dict_hash identical across all three architectures (changed uniformly from prior runs -- one new word registered -- not diverged, matching SXXXIV.6's own rule). This closes task 3.11 (Phase 3 gate): all of messaging.4th's live FORTH-owned message types (BLK-ATTACH-EVENT, CONSOLE-CMD-EVENT, ELEVATE-REQUEST) are now real kernel-Hermes cutovers. Phase 4 may begin. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
include/
Public headers for the hosted StarForth VM (src/). Kernel-only headers
live under include/starkernel/.
Core VM
vm.h— theVMstruct and all core types (DictEntry,DictPhysics, stacks, dictionary state); the central header most other files include.vm_api.h— external VM API surface.vm_host.h,vm_debug.h,startup.h,version.h— host integration, debug utilities, startup sequencing, version string.cli.h,repl.h,io.h,log.h— CLI parsing, REPL loop, I/O, logging.word_registry.h— word registration system shared by everysrc/word_source/*.cfile.compudynamics.h— the generic compudynamics module: tuning-word/config lookups (cd_tuning_word(),cd_tuning_vm()) consumed byssm_jacquard.c.
Memory / blocks
memory_management.h,dictionary_management.h— dictionary allocator and search.block_subsystem.h,blkcfg.h,blkio.h,blkio_factory.h— logical→ physical block mapper and pluggable block I/O backends (file/RAM).platform_alloc.h,platform_lock.h,platform_time.h— platform abstraction shims (hosted vs. kernel allocation/locking/timing).
Physics-driven adaptive runtime (7 feedback loops)
physics_runtime.h— main physics coordinator.physics_hotwords_cache.h— Loop #1, execution-heat hot-words cache.physics_metadata.h— per-wordDictPhysicsmetadata tracking.physics_pipelining_metrics.h— Loop #4, word-transition prediction.physics_execution_hooks.h— execution instrumentation hook points.rolling_window_of_truth.h,rolling_window_knobs.h— Loop #2 circular execution-history buffer and its tuning knobs.inference_engine.h— Loops #5/#6, window-width and decay-slope statistical inference.dictionary_heat_optimization.h— Loop #1 heat counters.ssm_jacquard.h— L8 Jacquard steady-state mode selector.doe_metrics.h— Design of Experiments (2^7 factorial) metrics.profiler.h— performance profiling hooks.
Arithmetic / codegen
q48_16.h— Q48.16 deterministic fixed-point arithmetic (used instead of IEEE-754 float specifically to keep cross-architecture behavior bit-identical).math_portable.h— portable math helpers.arch_detect.h,starforth_config.h— architecture detection and the build-flag fallback-default layer (used when a.cfile is compiled by hand withoutmake).vm_asm_opt.h,vm_asm_opt_arm64.h,vm_asm_opt_riscv64.h,vm_inner_interp_asm.h,vm_inner_interp_arm64.h,vm_inner_interp_riscv64.h— per-architecture assembler-optimized inner interpreter (USE_ASM_OPT=1).
See include/starkernel/README.md for the bare-metal kernel headers.