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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 2c1b3cd695 Four bugs found live verifying the 8 identity thumbdrives (FABRIC-3.md §IX)
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All found by actually running the identity workflow §VII/§VIII made
possible, not by code review:

1. Zuse/WIREBIND cross-contamination on detach: capsule_zuse_boot_logout()
   and capsule_wirebind_unclean_detach() both had no device parameter, so
   an unrelated device detaching (while the real owner's own stayed
   attached) incorrectly tore down the wrong session. Both now compare
   the departing device against their own tracked one, mirroring
   capsule_wirebind.c's pre-existing g_wirebind_attached_dev precedent.

2. Dictionary-entry memory leak: vm_create_word()'s sf_malloc()'d
   DictEntry (plus a second per-entry allocation for transition_metrics)
   was never freed by vm_cleanup(), in both the hosted and kernel
   implementations. Caused a real kernel PANIC after 8-9 repeated VM
   birth/kill cycles in one boot. Fixed by walking vm->latest in both.

3. sf_malloc/sf_free (alloc_kernel.c) was a 4MB bump arena with a
   deliberate no-op free, sized on "VM born once, never killed" -- fix #2
   alone didn't stop the panic because free() itself discarded the
   pointer regardless. Given a real free list (first-fit reuse).

4. Headless-console gate didn't re-engage after a mid-boot logout: the
   original fix (sk_console_mark_login(), one-way sticky) only gated the
   first login of the boot. Replaced with a live check
   (sk_console_identity_present()) re-evaluated continuously, including
   inside sk_console_readline()'s own blocking idle loop -- the console
   is normally sitting blocked there when a hot-unplug logout happens, so
   checking only at the top of the REPL loop wasn't enough.

Also: MINT now verifies its own write (verify_mint(), capsule_mint.c) by
reading back through the same check a real attach performs, rather than
trusting blkio_write()'s BLK_OK alone -- logged via log_message(), not
console_println(), per direct instruction.

Verified live, amd64: the full 8-identity repeated attach/detach cycle
that previously panicked at the same point every time now completes
clean, and a full serial-log sweep found zero bare unauthenticated
prompts anywhere in the run. Three-arch clean-qemu acceptance passed.

Still open, not fixed here: a 3+-simultaneous-device USB enumeration
failure found in a separate live test, not yet root-caused.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018EjXFo7mPXjUMjfJeuUUz4
2026-09-06 01:49:13 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 9e81de3f43 xHCI/BOT driver: genuine multi-device support (FABRIC-3.md §VII)
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Per-slot registry (xhci_msc_slot_t/dev->msc_slots, sized off the
controller's own reported max_slots) replaces the single-device scalar
fields the driver carried since Milestones 2e-2h. Boot-time port scan no
longer stops at the first connected device; a connect/disconnect that
arrives while the Command Ring is busy is now queued and drained instead
of dropped. blkio_usb.c and repl.c's own single-device state (device
descriptor buffers, blkio_dev_t, attach bookkeeping) became per-slot
registries the same way.

Live multi-device testing (not just compiling) surfaced a second, more
severe bug outside the original plan: transfer_purpose and next_action
were also single scalars shared across the whole controller. Two devices
enumerating concurrently could have one's completion silently overwrite
the other's still-outstanding one, permanently stalling it with no error.
Fixed by moving both per-slot and, critically, reading the Transfer Event
TRB's own real Slot ID field instead of trusting external bookkeeping.

Verified live, all three architectures, mandatory clean-qemu acceptance:
existing single-device path unchanged, and two devices attached
simultaneously (amd64) both progress independently through enumeration
without corrupting or stalling each other.

Also in this pass (implemented and verified in earlier turns this
session, committed together per direct instruction):
- Headless-until-login console policy: no prompt/banner until a real
  identity logs in via an attached thumbdrive (WIREBIND or Zuse, neither
  special), reusing EMERGENCY_CONSOLE_ENABLED as the debug/recovery
  escape hatch (now default-off).
- KILL/g_repl_active_vm dangling-pointer fix: killing the VM the console
  is currently USE'd onto now detaches back to Hera first, matching the
  existing EJECT/UNCLEAN precedent.

FABRIC-3.md §VII/§VIII carry full closure notes for all three.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018EjXFo7mPXjUMjfJeuUUz4
2026-09-05 22:14:14 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 4d4ab59189 Build the FIRSTTOUCH overflow trigger flagged in FABRIC-2.md §I.2
The overflow-triggered migration path (a WIREBIND-attached identity's own
drive running low on space) was scoped but never built -- only the
trigger-detection call site was missing, per this section's own text.

- capsule_wirebind.c now tracks the attached blkio_dev* alongside the
  already-tracked VM id, set in try_attach() and cleared in both
  EJECT/UNCLEAN paths.
- New capsule_wirebind_overflow_idle_check(), called once per idle tick
  in repl.c right alongside blk_migration_idle_check() (same cadence):
  reads the attached drive's free/total via blk_get_device_free_blocks(),
  and if free space is below a fixed 10% threshold, extends the
  identity's pool with a one-time blk_firsttouch_claim() of 8 additional
  devblocks on Artemis's system-resident device.
- New blk_owner_has_claim(owner_fp) in block_subsystem.c answers the
  debounce question blk_firsttouch_claim()'s own doc comment had left
  open: a disk scan, not a RAM flag, so the already-extended answer
  survives reboot/reattach, matching BMAPFMT's "ownership travels with
  the block" model.

Premise checked before building (does a WIREBIND-attached drive actually
give a real free/total signal, or does it stay PROVISIONAL/raw): traced
repl.c's attach sequence and confirmed blk_subsys_attach_device() runs on
the same dev pointer right after WIREBIND, and a WIREBIND-eligible drive
is always already STFR/v2-formatted, so the signal is real. Premise held,
unlike the BAM item's overstated one.

Verified with the mandatory 3-arch QEMU acceptance (identical dictionary
hashes, no regression) plus a live logic test of blk_owner_has_claim():
a temporary TEST-OWNER-CLAIM word, run once via SK_CMD and reverted,
confirmed it correctly detects the claiming owner and rejects an
unrelated one. The low-disk-space-triggers-a-claim path itself is not
verified end-to-end -- that needs a real minted WIREBIND-user thumbdrive
with deliberately tiny capacity, out of scope for this pass; noted as
such in the FABRIC-2.md §I.2 closure note rather than overclaimed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018EjXFo7mPXjUMjfJeuUUz4
2026-09-05 16:17:19 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 b031b802e3 Rename FABRIC series: FABRIC.md->0, FABRIC-2.md->1, FABRIC-3.md->2, FABRIC-4.md unchanged
FABRIC.md -> FABRIC-0.md
FABRIC-2.md -> FABRIC-1.md
FABRIC-3.md -> FABRIC-2.md (the current/living document)
FABRIC-4.md unchanged (new #3 to follow separately)

Every cross-reference repo-wide updated to match, including doc-comment
citations inside kernel source (.c/.h) files -- done via an ordered
placeholder substitution (FABRIC-3.md->placeholder2, FABRIC-2.md->
placeholder1, FABRIC.md->placeholder0, then placeholders resolved to
final names) in a single pass per file to avoid double-shifting
already-renamed references.

One line in capsules/font.4th grew past the 64-char block-format limit
as a side effect of the longer filename; shortened it and reverified
with mkcapsule --lint (34/34 pass) before rebuilding.

Verified 3-arch boot to ok> (amd64/aarch64/riscv64, each in the
foreground) after the fix; logs and DoE CSVs from this session's
verification runs included per this repo's own audit-artifact
convention.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YcT3H2PQeyujrzjqS3Var
2026-09-04 11:22:51 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 eeceec21a5 FABRIC-3.md §I.5: Milestone 7 trust tiers (QEMU-vs-real-hardware), closing it
Closes the contributor-capsule/trust-tier punch-list item. Decided
direction: QEMU-vs-real-hardware conditional enforcement.

Found before building on that decision: the obvious mechanism (expose
TimerInfo.vm_mode) only works on amd64 -- aarch64 and riscv64 both had
vm_mode hardcoded to 1 unconditionally, meaning they'd always report
"running under QEMU" even on real hardware. Built real detection for
both instead of shipping that: aarch64 checks the ACPI RSDP's OEM ID
for QEMU's "BOCHS " SeaBIOS-heritage signature; riscv64 checks the
devicetree root compatible property for "qemu". Confirmed vm_mode was
otherwise unread anywhere else in either file first -- zero risk to
existing timing behavior.

CAPSULE_FLAG_CONTRIB (mkcapsule.c: FLAG_CONTRIB) path-matches on
capsules/contrib/, mirroring FLAG_MAMA_INIT's exact-match pattern.
contrib_capsule_refused() (capsule_birth.c) enforces: no additional
check under QEMU (same WARN-only as everything else); on real hardware,
a contrib capsule additionally requires CAPSULE_SIG_OK, since it has no
other provenance to fall back on. Wired into capsule_birth_baby() and
capsule_run_experiment().

Also updates §I.7 (Milestone 9): its stated precondition (Milestone 7
closing) is now met, flagged as stale rather than treated as a green
light to design networking from nothing.

Verified 3-arch boot to ok> (amd64/aarch64/riscv64, each in the
foreground) -- compile/boot verification only; the real-hardware
enforcement branch is unverifiable from this environment, same as all
of §I.6. logs and DoE CSVs from this session's verification runs
included per this repo's own audit-artifact convention.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YcT3H2PQeyujrzjqS3Var
2026-09-04 11:04:25 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 1d468a65b1 FABRIC-3.md §I.1: (user) console prompt segment, closing the 4.4s->4.3->1.11 chain
Extends the REPL prompt to "[VM name] (user) ok>" (e.g. "[Hera]
(zuse) ok>") per the locked FABRIC.md §4.4s spec, unblocked by this
session's own §I.3/§I.8 identity-tracking work. Adds
capsule_wirebind_attached_username() alongside the existing tracked
VMUuid, and a new sk_print_prompt() helper (repl.c) that all three
prompt call sites now go through -- checks Zuse first, then a WIREBIND
user, prints nothing when neither is attached.

Closes 4.4s, 4.3 (console umbrella), and formally settles 1.11
(dirty-event granularity) as region-based per FABRIC-2.md's own "no
independent path" ruling -- a decision closure only, not an
implementation, so §17.4 (framebuffer heat/decay physics) stays open,
re-scoped precisely: blocked on the dirty-region-tracking mechanism
existing, not on 1.11's decision.

Documents a reported-but-unreproduced terminal defect (§I.9) as a new
punch-list item -- investigated the readline/keyboard-bridge code
paths, found nothing conclusive, needs a live repro with a serial log
before it's actionable.

Verified 3-arch boot to ok> (amd64/aarch64/riscv64, each in the
foreground); logs and DoE CSVs from this session's verification runs
included per this repo's own audit-artifact convention.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YcT3H2PQeyujrzjqS3Var
2026-09-04 09:42:26 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 60d9c2520e FABRIC-3.md §I.3/§I.8: WIREBIND EJECT/detach + EXPIRE re-scoped as logout
Closes §I.3 (Milestone 5 remainder): WIREBIND now tracks which VM is
attached via the home-blocks USB path, and a new EJECT word plus the
existing hot-unplug signal both flush/reset-console/kill through it
(FABRIC-3.md §F.10).

Closes §I.8 (EXPIRE/ACL), re-scoped: the original "admit the zuse
session as a Stadium patron and reap on TTL" plan was invalidated a
second time -- Zuse authenticates directly onto Hera, who is patron
zero and permanently pinned, so there is no patron for a reap sweep to
ever find. Built instead as a detach-triggered logout
(capsule_zuse_boot_logout()), the same trigger EJECT/hot-unplug use for
regular WIREBIND users, so neither identity is a special case. Required
a companion fix: install_and_activate() used to skip re-running
ACL-ZUSE-BOOT whenever the cert was already installed, which made a
logout permanent for the rest of the boot; the outer re-attach gate now
checks zuse_session (clears on logout) instead of zuse_cert_installed
(a deliberate permanent one-way ratchet, left untouched).

Verified 3-arch boot to ok> (amd64/aarch64/riscv64, each in the
foreground) after both steps; logs and DoE CSVs from this session's
verification runs included per this repo's own audit-artifact
convention.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YcT3H2PQeyujrzjqS3Var
2026-09-04 09:21:01 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 2b9fa02354 §H.12 steps 21-22: ELEVATE-REQUEST + ELEVATE-GRANT + SEND-ELEVATE-REQUEST
Phase 7 complete, closing out §H.12's punch list. MSG-DELIVER turned out
to VM-EXEC payload text directly rather than dispatching by type, so the
"handler" is ELEVATE-GRANT, a word the delivered text calls. New Hera-only
C primitives (ZUSE-ELIGIBLE?, NAME>XT, ELEVATE-PUBKEY-UNPACK) stay plain
and unconditional; capsules/zuse-eligibility.4th composes the actual
eligibility check + ACL-ALLOW!/ACL-TTL! grant in FORTH.
SEND-ELEVATE-REQUEST (common:messaging.4th) builds the payload text and
sends it via the item-20-gated CH-REQUEST.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QgooKd5hJNtTYqB6CyK5f9
2026-09-03 13:15:40 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 7d53344875 §H.12 step 19: ZUSE-ELIGIBILITY-ADD word, no gating (corrected mid-step)
Plain FORTH word wrapping zuse_eligibility_add() unconditionally. Two
wrong first attempts (C-level zuse_session check, then a FORTH wrapper
checking it) both corrected: zuse_session isn't a special axis needing
its own gate anywhere -- Zuse's authority is the absence of any ACL
restricting her, not a flag any word checks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QgooKd5hJNtTYqB6CyK5f9
2026-09-03 11:38:07 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 f4615cf605 §H.12 step 18: zuse_eligibility.c -- read/add/membership-check
is_member() (fail-closed) and add() (idempotent, chains new devblocks
onto the tail as needed) over the item-17 eligibility-list devblock
chain, mirroring capsule_zuse_boot.c's magic/version/CRC-64 validation
convention. No callers yet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QgooKd5hJNtTYqB6CyK5f9
2026-09-03 11:24:24 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Opus 5 a268abe925 §H.12 steps 10-11: creator-ceiling enforcement, birth-time ACL snapshot
dictionary_snapshot_acl_from_parent(child, parent): walks the child's
dictionary, copies acl_allow/acl_mode/acl_pinned/acl_ttl from the
parent's matching word (by name, via vm_find_word() -- FIND's own
lookup, not modified) onto the child's entry. One-time snapshot at
birth, no live sync, matching H.3's decided rationale (a program
developed against one ACL set must not have it silently changed by
later parent changes).

Called once, after dict_hash/parity logging rather than before -- the
snapshot depends on the parent's current ACL state, which can vary
run-to-run once Zuse elevations exist, so applying it earlier would
break the "same capsule twice produces the same dict hash" determinism
invariant.

Verified 3-arch boot to ok> (amd64/aarch64/riscv64).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-03 06:44:58 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Opus 5 ed86a759e1 §H.12 steps 7-9: thread real parent VMUuid through the birth call chain
Session.parent now comes from the actual birthing VM's own
stadium_vm_id, not a hardcoded vm_uuid_hera(). Added a VMUuid parent
parameter to capsule_birth_baby() and, one level up, to
capsule_console_birth()/capsule_runcap_birth() (neither had a VM* in
their own signature, but every caller did). Updated all 6 real call
sites: BIRTH, CAPSULE-BIRTH, CONNECT-ARTEMIS, CONNECT-HERMES,
RUNCAP-TEST, PAIR-TEST (mama_forth_words.c) and the console+user birth
pair in capsule_wirebind_try_attach() (capsule_wirebind.c). Two
functions had their vm parameter marked __attribute__((unused)), now
genuinely used -- attribute removed.

Steps 8 (Session.name from capsule name) and 9 (identity defaults to
installed=0) were already satisfied by step 5's existing
session_register() call and its identity-zeroing -- confirmed by
inspection, no further code needed.

Verified 3-arch boot to ok> (amd64/aarch64/riscv64).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-03 06:38:32 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Opus 5 09998af999 §H.12 steps 5-6: pin Hera/Hermes/Artemis in generic capsule-birth admission
capsule_birth.c's generic admission block now registers a session for
every born VM (session_register) and pins it (session_set_pinned) when
the birthing capsule is Hera/Hermes/Artemis.

Bug found and fixed via a temporary probe (written, run, captured,
reverted): the fleet-foundation name check first used an exact-match
comparison against "Hermes"/"Artemis", but capsule_name is actually
"hermes:init.4th"/"artemis:init.4th" (the real namespace:filename
convention) -- the check silently never matched, both would-be-pinned
VMs stayed unpinned. Fixed with a new vm_name_prefix_eq_nocase() helper
matching everything before a literal ':'. Probe confirmed pinned=0 before
the fix, pinned=1 after, on all relevant VMs.

Session.parent is hardcoded to vm_uuid_hera() for now (every birth
through this path is Hera-initiated today); step 7 generalizes this to
the actual birthing VM's own id.

Verified 3-arch boot to ok> (amd64/aarch64/riscv64) on the final,
probe-free code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-03 06:26:50 -04:00
Robert Allan James 09857b7228 G.2 (v2.0.0): unified rng_get_bytes() entropy entry point; virtio-rng sole backend
The QEMU-verifiable slice of the real-hardware RNG driver (per FABRIC-3.md
§G.2). New include/starkernel/rng.h + src/starkernel/rng/rng.c provide the
single entropy entry point: rng_init() probes the backend set (v2.0.0:
virtio-rng only) and, on no backend, prints a loud boot-time warning while
rng_get_bytes() returns RNG_ERR_NO_BACKEND - never silently degrading to a
deterministic seed. The backend-selection switch in rng.c is the exact seam
v2.5.0's per-arch drivers (amd64 RDRAND, riscv64 Zkr, aarch64 peripheral) plug
into without touching the call path.

Consumers route through the unified layer instead of virtio-rng directly:
capsule_mint.c (identity seed + drive_uuid) and kernel_main.c phase 8
(rng_init()). virtio_rng.c stays as the sole backend. Built clean on
amd64/aarch64/riscv64. QEMU amd64 boot: POST 1012/0/0 + ok>, "rng: backend =
virtio-rng" + "entropy: ready", Zuse identity confirmed from thumbdrive -
mint/cert behavior unchanged.

FABRIC-3.md §G.2 v2.0.0 slice marked BUILT+VERIFIED.
2026-08-29 09:57:17 -04:00
Robert Allan James 5689c397fc Bug-fix sweep: repl reentrancy, virtio/blocksys bounds, identity CRCs, LOG_LINE_MAX
Code review fixes, all compile clean (hosted gcc + aarch64/riscv64 kernel flags):

- repl.c (H1): reentrancy guards on the MSG-TICK idle pump. sk_repl_idle()
  now defers when Hera is mid-interpret (g_mama_interpreting) or when its
  own vm_interpret is on the stack (g_idle_pump_active), so a blocking
  KEY/EXPECT/QUERY inside a dispatched line can no longer re-enter the
  interpreter and clobber the in-flight input buffer.
- virtio_rng.c: clamp device-returned used_len to VRNG_BUF_SIZE before the
  caller's data_buf copy, closing a device-controlled OOB read.
- block_subsystem.c: first-write path now keys off created_time==0 instead
  of dead magic==0 so fresh blocks get a real created_time stamp; first_free/
  last_allocated fixed to absolute Forth LBNs (set in blk_compute_fresh_geometry
  from slot->start_lbn, no longer the wrong physical-BAM-index values from
  compute_totals_from_B); physical-bounds guard on blk_meta_zone_read/write
  prevents unsigned underflow on a corrupt fence >= device size.
- capsule_zuse_boot.c / capsule_wirebind.c: identity seed validated magic ->
  version -> CRC-64 (compute_crc64 over offsetof(crc)) before trusting it,
  so a corrupt/format-mismatched record is refused, never loaded.
- log.h / starkernel/log.h: unused LOG_LINE_MAX 256 renamed LOG_MSG_LINE_MAX
  to lift the include-order collision with vm.h's LOG_LINE_MAX 64; stale
  include-order comments dropped (kernel_main.c, shim.c, capsule_birth.c).
- FABRIC-3.md: three stale-doc carry-forward items closed [x] with cbe7b49
  notes.

Real KEY/?TERMINAL/QUERY/EXPECT bodies (console WIP):
- repl.h/repl.c: sk_console_getkey()/sk_console_key_available()/
  sk_console_readline() public bodies; non-destructive peek buffers the
  found byte so a following KEY returns it.
- shim.c: getchar()/fgetc()/fgets()/sf_terminal_ready() routed through the
  real console paths instead of stubs; sf_terminal_ready() in platform_io.h
  with sf_terminal_ready() implemented for the hosted build (linux/io.c,
  POSIX select on fd 0) wired into Makefile.
- io_words.c: ?TERMINAL now returns actual terminal-readiness, not constant 0.

Artifacts: minted disk/artemis.img + rebuilt lfs kernel; BLOCK_MAP.md,
doe csv + qemu log regenerated.
2026-08-28 23:28:10 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 d00e6cb50d MINT: default personality now loads common:messaging.4th (fixes MSG-TICK error-spam)
capsule_mint_identity()'s MINT_DEFAULT_PERSONALITY only ever defined
WELCOME, unlike capsule_console.c's own CONSOLE_IDENTITY_SRC. The moment
WIREBIND made a freshly-minted identity's VM live, Hera's per-idle-tick
MSG-TICK pump (repl.c Phase C) began erroring on it every tick forever --
UNKNOWN WORD: 'MSG-TICK'. Every identity minted before this fix would hit
the same infinite error-spam on going live, not just this one.

Fixed by loading common:messaging.4th + calling MSG-CD-INIT before
WELCOME, mirroring capsule_console.c's own pattern exactly.

Found and verified minting the first real second identity end to end:
disk/captain-bob.img, hot-attached via QMP alongside an already-
authenticated Zuse session, MINTed, WIREBIND-attached, switched into
live with USE, WELCOME confirmed. Zero MSG-TICK errors over 18+ seconds
of idle-loop cycling after the fix (was immediate and continuous before).
Full three-architecture regression clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KBjfeLPo71sUQ8zC7V7P5m
2026-08-28 22:05:55 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 849b83b727 Zuse default-attach: xHCI initial-port-scan fix, ZUSEDISK wiring, mismatched-marker resync
xhci_bringup() now scans for already-connected ports at bring-up
(xhci_scan_ports_for_already_connected()), not just later hotplug events,
so a USB device present on the QEMU command line at launch is detected.
Makefile.starkernel attaches disk/zuse.img on the xhci0 bus by default in
all three arch qemu targets (ZUSEDISK=, empties for a bare boot).

capsule_mint_identity() gained a drive_known_blank param to skip a fully
redundant second homeblocks_sig_check() when the caller already confirmed
HOMEBLOCKS_SIG_BLANK itself.

Root-caused what looked like a hang after the drive attached: Artemis's
fence still carried a genesis marker from before a mid-session reformat,
while the reformatted disk/zuse.img read back BLANK -- a mismatched pair
capsule_zuse_boot_try_attach() correctly declined to act on, leaving the
boot idling at a plain ok> with nothing left to log (indistinguishable
from a hang under slow TCG). Fixed by zeroing both disk/artemis.img and
disk/zuse.img at their original sizes, giving a matched blank pair.
Verified full three-architecture acceptance: amd64 fresh genesis-mint,
aarch64/riscv64 clean reload against the same now-minted images.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KBjfeLPo71sUQ8zC7V7P5m
2026-08-28 21:42:14 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 09d78c99d0 BINDSTEP + fence-persistence fix: identity arc closed end to end
Two items, closed together per direct instruction.

1. Fence-persistence root cause, found and fixed: meta_fence_blocks
   (the field gating whether blk_meta_zone_write() can succeed at all)
   was carved out of what used to be unused padding in blk_volume_meta_t
   -- the code's own comment already documented this. disk/artemis.img
   was formatted before that field existed, so its on-disk bytes there
   have always read back as 0, and the existing-volume load path
   (blk_format_or_load_disk()) never recomputes it -- only a fresh
   format does. Every "fence write FAILED" message this entire session,
   old block-fence flow and new zuse_genesis_marker_t alike, traces to
   this one thing. Patching the field in place without redoing the rest
   of the geometry would risk corrupting whatever's already allocated
   near the top of the volume, so the only safe fix is a genuine
   reformat -- done, with explicit confirmation, since it discards
   disk/artemis.img's accumulated persistent test state (regenerated
   fresh at next boot regardless, not real data). Verified: fence write
   now succeeds with no failure suffix, and the full mint-once ->
   reboot -> reattach -> re-authenticate cycle works for the first time
   this session ("Zuse: identity confirmed from attached thumbdrive",
   ZUSE-SESSION? goes 0 -> -1 without re-minting).

2. BINDSTEP (FABRIC-3.md §F.9): capsule_wirebind_verify_cert() extracted
   as a shared function so WIREBIND (the original attach) and BINDSTEP
   (every USE of an identity-locked VM) check the exact same thing the
   exact same way. mama_word_use() now re-verifies live, not cached,
   whenever the target VM has VMIdentity.installed=1 -- reads whatever
   drive is CURRENTLY attached, re-verifies its cert, compares owner
   pubkey against the target's own installed identity, refuses on any
   mismatch or no drive attached. A target with installed=0 (Hera,
   Hermes, Artemis, any console VM) stays freely targetable, unchanged.

Two related bugs found and fixed live while testing BINDSTEP, not
assumed away: USE was Mama-only, so a console-paired session (§F.22)
had no way back to Hera at all -- any attempt to call USE from inside
a console VM hit "UNKNOWN WORD: USE", a genuine dead end. Per direct
instruction, USE isn't console-specific -- it should work VM-to-VM
universally, same as VM-EXEC already does -- so it's now registered in
register_child_vm_words() too. That alone wasn't enough: the console
relay (sk_repl_dispatch_line()) would have captured a bare USE call and
sent it to the paired user VM as a message instead of running it.
Fixed with a small suffix-match guard (sk_repl_line_calls_use()) --
real FORTH syntax always puts USE last, so a trailing-token check
reliably recognizes it without needing a full tokenizer, and it always
runs directly, never relayed.

Verified live end to end: USE on an unlocked VM works unconditionally;
USE escaping a console back to Hera now works; USE on an identity-
locked VM succeeds while its own drive is attached and is refused
once detached ("USE: FinT~user refused -- no matching identity
currently attached"). Clean 3-architecture regression, including
confirming disk/artemis.img's reformatted geometry loads correctly as
an already-recognized volume ("Artemis: LithosAnanke disk -- resuming")
on aarch64 and riscv64 too, not just the amd64 boot it was reformatted
under.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019ZGkimpfyh63EZyRkNbkPD
2026-08-28 18:28:53 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 6fc0ee33a9 WIREBIND: real thumbdrive-attach call site, no manual steps
Assembles pieces already built and individually verified this session
-- CERTVERIFY (vm_identity_from_cert(), Phase A/B), RUNCAP, the
console-VM + user-VM pair (§F.22) -- into one automatic sequence,
replacing the RUNCAP-TEST/PAIR-TEST diagnostic words that exercised
each piece by hand.

New capsule_wirebind_try_attach() (capsule_wirebind.h/.c), called from
sk_repl_idle() alongside capsule_zuse_boot_try_attach() on every
HOMEBLOCKS_SIG_OK attach: sig->cert_offset==0 means this is Zuse's own
genesis-mode drive (no cert region) -- that's already
capsule_zuse_boot_try_attach()'s job, skip. Otherwise, with Zuse already
authenticated this boot (nothing to verify a regular cert against
otherwise), reads the cert devblock(s) and calls vm_identity_from_cert()
against mama_vm's own zuse_cert_pubkey and the drive's own drive_uuid.
On success: reads the drive's own user_identity_seed_t for its
username, births a console VM + RUNCAP-born user VM pair (idempotent --
no-ops if that username is already live this session), installs the
verified VMIdentity onto the user VM, and registers the "<username>~user"
pairing sk_repl_dispatch_line() (repl.c, §F.22) looks for. Deliberately
does NOT auto-USE the new console -- that stays an explicit,
ACL-gated step (BINDSTEP, §F.9), not something a bare attach should
trigger silently.

Verified end-to-end live in QEMU, including a genuine negative case:
attached disk/user1.img (signed by a different, earlier-session Zuse
instance) and got a correct "cert verification FAILED -- drive
refused" -- proof the check is real, not a rubber stamp. Minted a
fresh identity with this boot's own Zuse, reattached, and got
"WIREBIND: SamS attached and ready" printed with zero manual commands,
followed by a working USE + async WELCOME relay end to end (queued,
no UNKNOWN WORD, delivered and executed in the paired user VM on the
next idle tick). Clean 3-architecture regression: Hermes/Artemis both
birth live, no unexpected ACL denials or UNKNOWN WORD.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019ZGkimpfyh63EZyRkNbkPD
2026-08-28 16:57:17 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 b0f12710bb Console-VM + user-VM pair: real async message-passing relay
Console sessions now route through the same general VM-to-VM messaging
system (Phase C) any VM can already use for its own reasons -- not a
synchronous shortcut. Per direct instruction: real async MSG-SEND/
MSG-DELIVER (Option B), not a VM-EXEC-based synchronous relay, because
messaging is a general capability, not a console-specific mechanism.

New CONSOLE-CMD-EVENT message type (common:messaging.4th). New
sk_repl_dispatch_line() (repl.c), called from both sk_repl_step and
sk_repl_run in place of a direct vm_interpret(): if the active VM's own
name has a live "<name>~user" counterpart registered, the raw input
line is wrapped as an S"-embedded CONSOLE-CMD-EVENT MSG-SEND and
interpreted on the console VM instead of being run directly -- the
console's own next MSG-TICK (Hera's idle pump) delivers it into the
paired user VM via VM-EXEC, same mechanism every other message already
uses. Falls back to direct interpretation if there's no pairing, or if
the line contains a `"` (known v1 limitation, warned about explicitly
rather than silently mishandled).

New capsule_console_birth() (capsule_console.h/.c): a bare VM whose
only content is loading common:messaging.4th -- the console side of a
pairing, parallel in shape to RUNCAP's user-VM birth but with fixed
embedded content instead of a devblock read (no identity, no thumbdrive
involved). New PAIR-TEST diagnostic word (mama_forth_words.c, matches
RUNCAP-TEST's own precedent): births both halves of a pairing and
registers the "<name>~user" mapping. Not the real pairing call site --
that's the eventual attach/onboarding flow -- this exists to exercise
the relay live before that flow exists.

Found and fixed a real, serious bug live: console_set_vm_name() stored
the caller's raw pointer instead of copying it. mama_word_use() (USE)
passes a VMRegistryEntry field living on its own stack frame -- once
USE returns, that pointer dangles, corrupting every console tag after
the first USE (observed directly as garbled "[[]" / binary-looking
prefixes instead of "[CaptBob]"). Fixed at the source: console_set_
vm_name() now copies into internal storage. That surfaced a second,
related bug across every console_get_vm_name()-based save/restore call
site in mama_forth_words.c (BIRTH, VM-STEP, VM-EXEC, CONNECT-HERMES,
CONNECT-ARTEMIS): saving just a pointer into the single internal buffer
meant an intervening console_set_vm_name() call silently corrupted the
saved value before the restore ever ran. New console_save_vm_name()
copies into caller-owned storage; every save/restore site updated.

Verified end-to-end, live in QEMU: typed WELCOME at a paired console
VM -- it did not execute directly (no UNKNOWN WORD), printed ok
immediately (queued, async), and on the next idle tick
"[CaptBob~user] Minted identity -- default personality" appeared on
its own -- genuine delivery and execution in the paired user VM through
the real MSG-SEND/MSG-DELIVER pipeline. Console tags confirmed clean
(no garbling) across all three architectures' full regression boot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019ZGkimpfyh63EZyRkNbkPD
2026-08-28 16:39:07 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 cc9521d2cc Retire emergency CLI: Zuse goes thumbdrive-resident, ACL.4th activated
Three tightly-coupled changes, verified together per Captain Bob's own
"getting rid of the emergency cli" direction:

1. Zuse's identity is thumbdrive-resident, never system-resident. New
   zuse_genesis_marker_t (magic/version/zuse_pubkey[32]/crc) replaces
   zuse_cert_devblock_t's slot in the top-of-device fence -- the system
   now remembers only that a root identity exists and its pubkey, never
   a seed. zuse_cert_devblock_t is kept in the repo, marked superseded,
   no longer written by any code path.

   capsule_mint_identity() grows a genesis mode (issuer_vm=NULL): no
   cert is built or written (Zuse isn't verified against a separate
   signer -- she's recognized by pubkey match against the marker) and
   two new optional out-params (out_pubkey/out_seed) let the caller
   install the cert immediately after a genesis mint.

   New capsule_zuse_boot_try_attach() (capsule_zuse_boot.c), called
   from sk_repl_idle() on every fresh USB attach (the only point in the
   boot lifecycle a thumbdrive can actually be detected -- attach
   polling doesn't exist yet at kernel_main.c's old one-shot mint point,
   which is why that whole block is gone): no marker + blank drive ->
   genesis-mint; marker present + matching drive -> read its own
   user_identity_seed_t, install the cert. Either way, re-runs
   ACL-ZUSE-BOOT (zuse.4th) so zuse_session activates exactly like it
   always has for a same-boot cert install -- ACL-PIN only blocks
   redefinition, not re-execution, so no new C-side auth logic needed.

2. ACL.4th activated (capsules/init.4th) -- inactive all session until
   now. Found and fixed a real bug this immediately surfaced: zuse.4th's
   ACL-ZUSE-BOOT tried `['] ACL-ZUSE-BOOT ACL-PIN` from inside its own
   still-compiling definition -- the word isn't findable yet at that
   point, so the whole definition silently failed to compile every
   previous boot this session (dormant, since ACL.4th never loaded).
   Fixed: pin after the definition closes, not from within it -- it
   only needs to happen once anyway, and pinning doesn't block the
   re-invocation genesis/attach needs.

3. The unauthenticated emergency-CLI ACL bypass is retired
   (repl.c): `emergency_console = is_hera ? (zuse_session ? 0 : 1) : 0`
   deleted from both sk_repl_step and sk_repl_run. Every word run from
   Hera's own bare prompt now goes through ordinary ACL enforcement;
   emergency_console is driven only by the genuine C-level fault
   handler again.

Added ZUSE-SESSION? (starforth_words.c), a read-only diagnostic
matching ZUSE-PUBKEY@'s own precedent, to verify the whole chain
directly rather than by inference.

Verified end-to-end live in QEMU: fresh boot, no thumbdrive ->
ZUSE-SESSION? reads 0. Attach a genuinely blank drive via QMP -> genesis
mint fires automatically (no typing) -> ZUSE-SESSION? reads -1 (true).
Hermes/Artemis both birth clean on all three architectures with ACL
now actually enforced for the first time all session -- no denials, no
UNKNOWN WORD beyond the deliberate POST self-test cases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019ZGkimpfyh63EZyRkNbkPD
2026-08-28 16:10:40 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 6fd87923a5 MINT: parameterize with full name, username, email, phone
Extends user_identity_seed_t (version 2) with fixed-size full_name/
username/email/phone fields -- plenty of unused pad space (4016 bytes)
was already there. Deliberately NOT encoded into the DER cert's Subject
field: that would mean building a real X.509 RDNSequence (OIDs for
commonName/emailAddress, PrintableString/UTF8String tagging), well past
this project's own stated "deliberately not a general ASN.1/X.509
[builder]" scope. This human-readable profile data isn't
security-relevant the way pubkey/serial are (the only two fields
CERTVERIFY/BINDSTEP actually check) -- it travels alongside the keypair
in the plain identity record instead.

capsule_mint_identity() takes full_name/username (required, validated
non-empty and within their fixed field widths) and email/phone (NULL or
empty = null, matching the schema's own nullable convention). The MINT
FORTH word's stack signature grows to 4 string pairs
( fname-c fname-u uname-c uname-u email-c email-u phone-c phone-u -- ok? ).

Verified live in QEMU: minted two real identities with real profile
data -- Zuse (full_name "Konrad Suse", username "Zuse",
zuse@pantheon.org) onto disk/zuse.img, and a regular user (full_name
"Captain Bob", username "CaptBob", capt.bob@pantheon.org) onto
disk/user1.img -- then read the raw devblock bytes back off both images
directly and confirmed every field byte-exact at its correct struct
offset. Clean 3-architecture regression boot confirms no side effects.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019ZGkimpfyh63EZyRkNbkPD
2026-08-28 15:33:02 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 f6e2737f1e Phase E: MINT -- real keypair, Zuse-signed DER cert, working default identity
capsule_mint_identity() (new capsule_mint.h/.c): mints a fresh identity
onto a blank/unminted thumbdrive -- real Ed25519 keypair from virtio_rng,
a fresh drive_uuid (independent random draw, not derived from the
identity seed, per FABRIC-3.md §F.8 decision 3), a Zuse-signed DER cert
in the CERTVERIFY format, and a small working default personality (a
real WELCOME word, not a stub -- FABRIC-3.md §F.6/§F.8's own "default
personality content" question stays open, but whatever mints today must
actually do something when RUNCAP births it). Refuses to overwrite a
drive that already reads as a recognized home-blocks drive, mirroring
WRITE(10)'s own refuse-on-non-blank posture (decided now, not just
"reasonable by analogy" as §F.8 left it).

x509_build_user_cert() (x509_ed25519.h/.c): the encode-side counterpart
to the existing decode functions (x509_extract_ed25519_pubkey(),
x509_verify_signature(), x509_extract_serial()) -- a minimal DER TLV
writer producing exactly the fields those functions read. Host-tested
round-trip against the real decoder before trusting it in the kernel,
including a high-bit-serial case that exercises the DER integer-padding
rule; all assertions pass (pubkey/serial round-trip, signature verifies
against the real issuer, correctly rejects the wrong key and a
corrupted signature).

New user_identity_seed_t (user_identity_seed.h): the on-disk record for
a minted identity's own keypair, same magic+version+fields+pad-to-4096+
real-CRC convention as zuse_cert_devblock_t and homeblocks_sig_t. Fixed
devblock layout: sig(1), cert(2), seed record(3), default personality(4).

New MINT word (mama_forth_words.c) and a small accessor
(sk_repl_get_attached_blk_dev(), repl.h/.c) exposing the currently
attached USB device regardless of home-blocks recognition -- MINT's own
target is a blank drive, which by definition never sets Phase D's
sk_repl_get_homeblocks_dev().

Verified end-to-end live in QEMU: MINT on a genuinely blank test drive,
then (after a detach/reattach so the sig cache picks up the fresh
header -- a known workflow gap, not fixed here, flagged for whoever
builds the real Console onboarding flow) RUNCAP birthed a VM from that
drive's own newly-minted content, and VM-EXECing its WELCOME word
printed the default personality banner. The full mint-to-birth Tripod
identity flow works end to end for the first time. Clean 3-architecture
regression boot confirms no side effects on normal boot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019ZGkimpfyh63EZyRkNbkPD
2026-08-28 14:44:59 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 e1e839258d Phase D: RUNCAP -- runtime capsule construction from thumbdrive content
capsule_runcap_birth() (new capsule_runcap.h/.c): builds a heap-only,
single-entry CapsuleDirHeader + CapsuleDesc + CapsuleNameEntry + arena
from a home-blocks drive's identity_src region (skipping the first
devblock, reserved for MINT's user_identity_seed_t record) and hands it
to the existing, unmodified capsule_birth_baby() -- no new birth
mechanism, matching FABRIC-3.md §F.6's own trace.

Found and closed a real gap in that trace along the way:
capsule_birth_baby()'s signature check calls capsule_get_signatures(),
which unconditionally returns the compile-time-baked global array --
meaningless for a heap-built directory, where index 0 would compare
RUNCAP's own content against whatever real capsule happens to occupy
that slot in the baked array (guaranteed-wrong, not a security check).
Added an explicit skip_pki_sig flag (0 for all 4 existing call sites,
1 for RUNCAP): that content's trust comes from CERTVERIFY, a separate
root, not the capsule-PKI chain.

Also found live: capsule_birth_baby() never sets the registry entry's
own .name (every existing caller does this itself afterward via
capsule_vm_registry_set_name() -- RUNCAP now does too), and
capsule_exec_payload() requires a "Block NNNN" header per chunk of
content or it's silently skipped, never executed -- not a bug, but
necessary context for whoever authors MINT's default personality
content next.

Added a small accessor pair (repl.h/.c) exposing the currently attached
home-blocks device/sig -- the same gap F.9's own BINDSTEP scoping had
already flagged, needed by both.

Verified end-to-end live in QEMU: synthetic identity-source content
written directly to a thumbdrive image's raw devblocks (no capsule
build, no mkcapsule) was read, compiled, and executed by a genuinely
new VM via a diagnostic RUNCAP-TEST word -- confirmed via VM-EXEC
invoking a word defined only in that source. Clean 3-architecture
regression boot (no RUNCAP drive attached) confirms no side effects.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019ZGkimpfyh63EZyRkNbkPD
2026-08-28 14:29:42 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 21bca315ff Phase C: distributed messaging capsule + idle-loop pump
Extract the messaging vocabulary (arenas, MSG-*/CH-*/MBR-* words) out of
capsules/hermes/init.4th into a new shared capsules/common/messaging.4th
that Hermes and Artemis each load at birth, giving every VM its own
private MSG-ARENA/CH-ARENA instead of only Hermes having one. Hermes
stays the owner of the one real, canonical COMMON-CH; Artemis subscribes
into it via VM-EXEC at her own birth, and Hermes proactively subscribes
Hera (idx 0) since Hera always exists first.

Hera does NOT get her own copy: register_child_vm_words()'s own doc
comment explains why the STADIUM-* primitives common:messaging.4th
depends on are deliberately never registered in her dictionary (keeps
her dict_hash off item 4.1's baseline). Confirmed live by loading it
into her dictionary anyway first -- every colon-definition referencing
an unregistered Stadium primitive was silently dropped (MSG-HEAT@/!,
CH-HEAT@/!, MSG-COOL-ALL, MSG-TICK all missing after boot). Reverted
that path; she orchestrates via BIRTH/VM-EXEC/VM-CALL instead.

Added capsule_vm_registry_get_by_index() (capsule_birth.c/.h) for
registry enumeration by birth-order position, and a pump in repl.c's
existing idle hook that walks every live VM once per idle beat and
VM-EXECs MSG-TICK into each one except Hera's own entry.

Verified clean (no UNKNOWN WORD / VM-EXEC errors after birth) on all
three architectures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019ZGkimpfyh63EZyRkNbkPD
2026-08-28 13:02:23 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 0ec91b517a Implement CERTVERIFY -- real DER cert verification, tested against OpenSSL
Phase B of the identity pipeline (FABRIC-3.md §F.7/§F.17):

- x509_ed25519.c/.h: two new DER walkers alongside the existing pubkey
  extractor -- x509_verify_signature() (verifies a cert's outer Ed25519
  signature over the raw, exactly-as-encoded tbsCertificate bytes, real
  signature verification against issuer_pubkey, rejects non-Ed25519
  signatureAlgorithm) and x509_extract_serial() (extracts the
  serialNumber INTEGER, stripping a DER padding byte if present, for the
  drive_uuid binding decided in §F.7).

- vm_identity.c: vm_identity_from_cert(), ties the three DER primitives
  together into the actual CERTVERIFY check -- signature verifies against
  issuer_pubkey, serialNumber matches this drive's own drive_uuid,
  subject pubkey extracts cleanly -- and populates a VMIdentity on
  success. acl_caps is caller-supplied, not read from the cert (nothing
  in the decided cert fields encodes capabilities); deciding what a
  verified identity is allowed to do is policy for the caller (WIREBIND,
  not yet built), not this function's job.

Verified two ways: a standalone host-side test harness (not part of the
kernel build) links the real source files against a real openssl-
generated Ed25519 X.509 cert -- extracted pubkey, extracted serial, and
signature verification all match ground truth, plus two negative tests
(wrong issuer pubkey, corrupted signature) both correctly rejected. Then
the actual kernel build verified live on all three architectures: clean
compile, clean boot to ok>, Hermes/Artemis both live with no KILL. Same
pre-existing, unrelated Zuse fence-write anomaly observed on all three
(not caused by this change, not chased here).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019ZGkimpfyh63EZyRkNbkPD
2026-08-28 09:38:18 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 c07184e984 Add VMIdentity type, relocate homeblocks_sig_t off devblock 0
Phase A of the identity pipeline (FABRIC-3.md §F.2/§F.16, §F.13):

- New include/starkernel/vm_identity.h: VMIdentity{owner_pubkey[32],
  installed, acl_caps}, its own header per the project's "give real-shaped
  data its own header" convention (VMUuid's own precedent), embedded by
  value on struct VM. acl_caps is an independent capability bitmask, not
  an ordered privilege tier (decided 2026-08-28) -- Zuse isn't a
  structurally special VM, her identity just has every bit set
  (VM_IDENTITY_CAP_ALL). No individual capability bits assigned yet,
  deliberate slack matching blk_meta_t's own acl_reserved precedent --
  real bits get names once the operation they gate (BINDSTEP, MINT, ...)
  actually gets built.

- Applied the devblock-1 relocation decided in §F.13: new
  HOMEBLOCKS_SIG_START_FBLOCK constant (homeblocks_sig.h), repl.c's
  homeblocks_sig_check() call site updated from the literal 0. Also
  applied the still-owed blockmap_offset/blockmap_devblocks ->
  identity_src_offset/identity_src_devblocks rename decided in §F.6 (no
  other code referenced the old names). Updated the header's own stale
  GPT-relative doc comments to match -- GPT was dropped permanently, this
  location is final, not an interim stand-in.

Verified live on all three architectures: clean compile, clean boot to
ok>, Hermes/Artemis both confirmed live with no KILL (no regression from
last session's session-less fix). One pre-existing, unrelated anomaly
observed consistently on all three arches, not caused by this change (no
code touched here intersects Zuse's own fence-write path): "Zuse: minted
but fence write FAILED (not persistent)" -- flagged for its own
investigation, not chased here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019ZGkimpfyh63EZyRkNbkPD
2026-08-28 09:29:28 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 030a3e6dc0 Milestone 6: hard-refuse flip, scoped to INVALID only -- closes Milestone 6
Before flipping, found CAPSULE_SIG_MISSING (no signature at all) is the
normal state everywhere except this machine -- CI and any other
checkout have no access to the offline key, by design. Refusing on
MISSING the same as INVALID would brick boot everywhere but here.
Decided (on request): enforce ONLY on CAPSULE_SIG_INVALID (a signature
that IS present but doesn't verify -- unambiguous tampering/corruption
evidence). MISSING/NO_ROOT_KEY stay WARN-only permanently.

All three capsule_birth.c call sites now return CAPSULE_RUN_ERR_INVALID
on CAPSULE_SIG_INVALID, after logging the same WARN as before.

Verified on all three architectures, both directions, per the original
rollout commitment: positive case (real signed capsules) reboots clean
with zero warnings on amd64/aarch64/riscv64. Negative case (same
one-byte signature corruption used for the WARN-only proof, on Mama's
own init.4th) now genuinely refuses identically on all three:
"capsule sig: init.4th: INVALID" then "Init: Mama birth FAILED". The
feared "no ok> at all" blast radius didn't materialize -- kernel_main.c
already had graceful error handling for a failed Mama birth (log and
continue, pre-existing code); the kernel reaches a degraded ok> rather
than crashing, on all three architectures. Final acceptance pass (real
signed capsules, tampering reverted) clean on all three.

Milestone 6 is now fully closed except magic-number content-type
detection (shared with Milestone 4, separate scope, not started).
Documented in FABRIC-3.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01U14ET9CWAtbQMbYqomKgXd
2026-08-26 22:08:20 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 2fc55f47e1 Milestone 6: mkcapsule signing + capsule_birth.c wiring, WARN-only
First attempt shelled out to `openssl pkeyutl -sign` (fork/execlp, not
system() -- avoided shell string interpolation of the key path).
Corrected on request: no new external host binary dependency when the
repo's own code can do the job -- same standing preference as the
earlier anti-file correction. Rewritten to link ed25519_sign() (already
verified against OpenSSL in Phase B) directly into mkcapsule.

New tools/pkcs8_ed25519.c: a narrow DER walker (same shape as
x509_ed25519.c, deliberately not shared -- small enough that
duplicating a few TLV-walking lines beat threading a header between the
kernel crypto tree and host tooling) extracting the raw seed from the
intermediate's PKCS#8 private key, plus a minimal self-written base64
decoder (PEM is openssl genpkey's default output; no decoder existed
anywhere in the repo). Verified end-to-end before wiring anything in:
the extracted seed's derived pubkey matches the cert's exactly, and a
full self-contained sign+verify round-trip (zero openssl) passes.

CapsuleDesc had no spare bytes, so signatures live in a new parallel
CapsuleSigEntry array, emitted by a new `mkcapsule --sign-key <path>`
flag (omitted/missing key -> has_sig=0 everywhere, graceful, not a
build failure -- CI has no access to the offline key).

New capsule_sig.c/.h: capsule_verify_signature(), a separate function,
not folded into the already-tested capsule_validate(). Finds and caches
the embedded intermediate cert's pubkey once per boot, then verifies
against it. Wired into all three capsule_validate() call sites in
capsule_birth.c via log_message(LOG_WARN, ...) -- never refuses yet,
per the earlier staged-rollout decision.

Verified independently, both directions, live in the real kernel: a
full clean build (38 signed capsules) boots clean on all three
architectures with zero warnings. Separately, hand-corrupted one byte
of Mama's own init.4th capsule's stored signature (not its payload/hash,
which capsule_validate() already catches and would have masked the
test) and rebuilt just the changed object: produced exactly "capsule
sig: init.4th: INVALID -- signature does not verify" on boot, and the
kernel still reached ok> -- proving warn-only doesn't refuse anything
yet. Reverted before the final, untampered 3-arch acceptance pass.

Still open: flipping WARN to hard-refuse (separate, deliberate step)
and the BLOCK_MAP.md signature-status column. Documented in FABRIC-3.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01U14ET9CWAtbQMbYqomKgXd
2026-08-26 21:32:29 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 3e0966095c Stadium: real VM-patron admission + real COOL dispatch at KILL (FABRIC-3.md §B)
capsule_vm_kill() had zero Stadium involvement (vm_cleanup()/sf_free()
only), and child-VM birth only ever called stadium_grant_quota() -- a
resource pool for the VM's own future word/block patrons, never
stadium_admit() for the VM itself. stadium_birth_hera() looked like a
precedent but admits Hera into her own quota as a permanently pinned
cell 0, which can never reach stadium_evict() -- not a working example
of COOL firing for a VM.

Adds size_t stadium_patron_cell to VMRegistryEntry. At birth, right
after the existing stadium_grant_quota() call, admits a candidate into
the new VM's own quota mirroring stadium_birth_hera()'s shape
(identity=0, mass=1, behaviour=COOL) but deliberately unpinned --
pinning would need a new "unpin" primitive (none exists) to ever evict
it later, and unpinned costs nothing since nothing wires COOL's
dispatch body to kill anything; the worst case of an unrelated natural
eviction is stale bookkeeping, tolerated the same way
stadium_word_forget() already tolerates staleness elsewhere. At
capsule_vm_kill() and capsule_vm_kill_all_nonmama(): stadium_evict()
the tracked cell if still resident, silently tolerating refusal
(already gone). stadium_dispatch()'s COOL case needed no new payload
body -- same as it already is for words, where COOL has no defined
extra action beyond stadium_evict()'s own universal reservoir credit.

On investigation this turned out not to be entangled with the
still-iterating Tripod/Zuse/messaging vision after all -- birth and
kill already funnel through two single choke points, so the earlier
deferral (previous commit) was overcautious.

Verified live: a second, new "Stadium: dispatch cell=... behaviour=
COOL" now fires immediately before every PARITY:KILL line, for both
Hermes and Artemis, distinct from the pre-existing COMMON-CH
word-eviction self-test's own COOL print. Conservation
(resident_sum + reservoir == Q48_ONE) intact throughout. Clean
zero-warning compile and clean boot on all three architectures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CXjAPTEKrgY2Mrk25KoLDn
2026-08-26 02:53:56 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 8d90538801 item 4.6: fix Stadium quota-grant ordering; fix aarch64 PSCI SYSTEM_RESET function ID
Artemis's 30-rep surface stress campaign was failing 100% of trials on all
three architectures: stadium_grant_quota() ran after IDENTITY exec in
capsule_birth.c, but Artemis's init.4th auto-runs the stress campaign as
part of that same IDENTITY exec, so every STADIUM-ADMIT call during it hit
a nonexistent quota slot and refused unconditionally. Moved the grant call
before IDENTITY exec. Verified 30/30 reps PASS on amd64, aarch64, and
riscv64 post-fix (was 30/30 FAIL on all three pre-fix).

Also fixed an independent, real bug found during the same acceptance pass:
aarch64's arch_cold_reset() issued PSCI SYSTEM_RESET using the SMC64
calling convention (0xC4000009), which is not a valid PSCI function ID --
SYSTEM_RESET has no SMC64 variant. Corrected to the SMC32 encoding
(0x84000009). This did not resolve the separate aarch64 BYE cold-restart
exception also found in this pass (root cause not yet found, tested and
refuted an interrupt-race hypothesis, documented in FABRIC-2.md Section I
for follow-up) but is a genuine spec fix worth keeping regardless.

Full writeup, evidence, and the still-open aarch64 crash investigation in
FABRIC-2.md Sections H and I.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 14:53:18 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 89d8c08582 stadium: wire STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK in as a flat threshold, not a scheduler
Closes FABRIC-2.md's last open §12 Q5 question. fleet_heartbeat_tick_count
is fed by every live VM's own vm_tick(), not one VM's, so it was reaching
HEARTBEAT_INFERENCE_FREQUENCY (shared/borrowed from the per-VM inference
gate) several times faster than intended with more than one VM live -
backwards from FABRIC.md §22.4's required ~1000:1 separation.

What's actually gated turned out to be low-stakes: vm_physics_tick()
(capsule_vm_physics.c:397) is a passive statistics refit - re-sorts a
window of past heat-transfer samples and recomputes a median rate
estimate. It doesn't move heat or arbitrate capacity. Firing too often
just meant a noisier statistic recomputed more frequently than planned,
not incorrect behavior.

Considered and explicitly rejected: scaling the threshold by live VM
count at the check site. That's the first brick of a scheduler - reading
fleet state to adjust a rate dynamically - which this project has
deliberately avoided building. Implemented instead: STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK
(existing Kconfig symbol, defined but never read by any code path) now
gates vm_physics_heartbeat_tick()'s call directly, replacing the borrowed
HEARTBEAT_INFERENCE_FREQUENCY. Default bumped 1000 -> 4000, a flat
constant picked once for Tripod's known 4-VM topology, same kind of
placeholder as every other frequency knob in Kconfig.kernel - not
computed from anything at runtime. Renamed fleet_last_inference_tick ->
fleet_last_capacity_tick to match. Still one clock, one counter
(fleet_heartbeat_tick_count) - just a bigger flat divisor on it.

Three-arch QEMU acceptance: all clean to ok>, identical Stadium
conservation invariant on all three (resident_sum=43691 reservoir=21845
sum=65536). logs/20260815-093425/amd64, logs/20260815-093521/aarch64,
logs/20260815-093641/riscv64.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 09:37:58 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 00e657019e stadium: make VM population bound RAM-derived, not a static array of 4
Replaces STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT (Kconfig, hardcoded default 4) with a
boot-time computation, mirroring the pattern stadium_boot_init() already
used for the cell pool. New Kconfig STADIUM_VM_MEMORY_PERCENT (default
50): max_vm_count = (kmalloc_get_stats().free_bytes after the cell array
* STADIUM_VM_MEMORY_PERCENT / 100) / VM_MEMORY_SIZE, floored to 1, no
ceiling (population is not knowable in advance - could be 4, could be
4000). stadium_quotas and word_slots (plus stat_promotions/stat_evictions)
are now kmalloc'd to the computed count instead of declared with a macro.
New accessor stadium_max_vm_count() replaces every STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT
reference, including capsule_birth.c's birth-refusal gate.

Two things found and fixed along the way:

- The existing cell-pool budget was sourced from pmm_get_stats(), which
  reflects physical pages PMM hasn't handed to any subsystem yet - but
  the actual allocation is kmalloc(), which draws from the separate,
  fixed-size heap kmalloc_init() (M6) already carved out of PMM before
  stadium_boot_init() ever runs. Budgeting against PMM's leftover and
  allocating from the kmalloc heap are two different pools. Both the
  cell budget and the new VM-count budget now source from
  kmalloc_get_stats() instead.

- stadium_owner[] (which VM's quota owns each cell) was uint8_t, capped
  at 255 slots by a compile-time assert tied to the old macro. Widened
  to uint16_t (65535 slots of headroom) with a runtime clamp + log if
  the computed count ever exceeds that, since there's no ceiling anymore.

Three-arch QEMU acceptance: all clean to ok>, computed VM count genuinely
differs by actual available RAM (amd64/riscv64: 50 slots at -m 1024,
aarch64: 101 slots), Stadium conservation invariant identical across all
three (resident_sum=43691 reservoir=21845 sum=65536).
logs/20260815-080526/amd64, logs/20260815-080826/aarch64,
logs/20260815-080952/riscv64.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 08:11:21 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 db6640682b mama_forth_words: KILL must not physics-retire Hera before refusing her
S" Hera" KILL called vm_physics_retire(hera_id) before capsule_vm_kill()'s
own Hera guard ever ran. Hera's self-referential parent_vm_id makes
vm_physics_find_root_id() return her own id immediately, so
vm_physics_retire() treated her as an unreachable root and zeroed the
fleet's entire execution_heat_q48 sum -- silently, with only the
harmless-looking "cannot kill Hera" message as output. Guard the retire
call the same way capsule_vm_kill() already guards the actual kill.

Three-arch acceptance boot, all clean to ok>:
logs/20260813-083429/amd64, logs/20260813-083551/aarch64,
logs/20260813-083738/riscv64.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 08:38:33 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 5a28458b21 starkernel: item 4.2 -- Hermes native on the Stadium (complete)
Migrates Hermes's message/channel lifecycle onto the Stadium's unified
heat/capacity economy: MSG-ALLOC/FREE-NODE and CH-ALLOC/FREE-NODE now
route entirely through stadium_admit()/stadium_evict(), replacing the
old local free-list + independent heat-field mechanism. Eight
kernel-only STADIUM-* FORTH primitives (ADMIT, EVICT, RES@, RES-PULL,
RES-PUSH, HEAT@, HEAT!, WORD-HEAT), VM.stadium_vm_id threaded through
all three vm_core.c dispatch sites (replacing item 4.1's hardcoded
vm_uuid_hera()), and the stadium_owner[idx] fix so evict-credit lands
in the VM that actually admitted a patron, not whoever owned cell 0.

This session's own contribution, on top of that pre-existing
implementation: found and fixed two bugs blocking the item's own K≡1.0
conservation self-check (HERMES-K was reading 0, not 65536):

- Q.SLOT admission-heat fix (capsules/hermes/init.4th): MSG-SEND/
  CH-ACCEPT admitted with Q.1 (the entire fleet-wide "1.0" unit) per
  item, a leftover from before the Stadium migration when each
  message/channel had its own unconstrained heat field. Instantly
  drained the shared, finite reservoir.

- Reservoir floor for word-execution admission (stadium_words.c):
  stadium_word_dispatch() (item 4.1) pulls STADIUM_WORD_HEAT_QUANTUM on
  every word dispatch, not just first admission -- exhausts a VM's
  entire reservoir in ~32 dispatches, starving any application-level
  economy sharing that VM's reservoir before it gets a chance to pull
  anything. word_dispatch_pull() now clamps word-execution's own pulls
  to leave a Q48_ONE/3 floor (same fair-share figure COMMON-CH's own
  floor already uses); application-level pulls are unaffected.

- STADIUM-WORD-HEAT primitive + stadium_words_resident_heat(): the
  floor deliberately leaves word-execution residents holding real
  heat, invisible to HERMES-K's original formula (MSG+CH+reservoir,
  no term for word patrons). Adding this term closes K to exactly
  65536 on all three architectures.

Also rules on two open scope questions in FABRIC.md: MBR-ALLOC/
MBR-FREE-NODE stay off the Stadium (membership records have no heat
field, never did -- the acceptance bullet's inclusion of them was a
completeness gesture predating a check of the actual layout), and
records the effort number (12 implementation files, +759/-120 lines).

Verified: all three architectures boot clean, full self-test passes,
Stadium conservation closes exactly (resident_sum + reservoir =
Q48_ONE) at both the C/Stadium level and the FORTH-level HERMES-K
check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 01:49:23 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 2981ada2a5 starkernel: item 4.1a -- quota granting, Hermes's one-time birth grant
Punch list §25 item 4.1a complete.
New prerequisite item, found while scoping 4.2: no quota-granting mechanism
existed at all. Adds stadium_grant_quota(new_vm_id, from_vm_id) -- a
one-time initial grant at birth, distinct from item 1.3's still-unbuilt
recurring capacity-transfer arbitration. Splits the donor's free list evenly
by cell count, reassigns stadium_owner[] for every moved cell, and grants
the new VM a fresh Q48_ONE reservoir (not a split of the donor's -- per-VM
conservation, same pattern as Hera's own boot grant). Wired into every baby
VM's birth in capsule_birth.c.

Verified via a boot-time self-test in kernel_main.c using a synthetic
identity (not the real UUID pool, not a real capsule birth -- item 0.1's
Hera-alone pruning stays intact). All three architectures booted to ok> with
identical output: grant OK, Hera reservoir=0 (already fully committed to
resident words, correctly unchanged), test-vm reservoir=65536 (fresh
Q48_ONE). dict_hash identical across all three and unchanged from item 4.1's
baseline (0x3d4e1daf289da94f) -- confirms no dictionary word was added.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 15:12:30 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 9b305a5be7 starkernel: item 3.8 -- VM identifiers as UUID/GUID
Punch list §25 item 3.8 complete. Added after starting item 4.1
surfaced the need to thread a vm_id into stadium_admit()'s new quota
parameter; Captain Bob ruled UUID/GUID rather than keeping the
narrower uint32_t.

New VMUuid type (vm_uuid.h/vm_uuid.c): two uint64_t halves, RFC-4122-
shaped for logging. Not real randomness -- checked directly against
QEMU 10.2.1's actual CPU feature set: amd64 RDRAND and riscv64 Zkr are
both real, available features here; aarch64 has no RNG property on any
CPU model including "max" (verified exhaustively via QMP
query-cpu-model-expansion). Captain Bob ruled a uniform fallback
across all three ISAs rather than a per-architecture split.

Fallback is a deterministic PRNG (splitmix64) seeded from the Mama
capsule's content hash, pre-filling a 16-entry FIFO pool at boot and
refilling with another batch of the same stream when exhausted --
exactly the shape requested. Same capsule booted twice produces the
same id sequence, preserving the dict_hash reproducibility this
session has relied on throughout.

Hera keeps a fixed, reserved all-zero id, not drawn from the pool --
capsule_birth.c uses vm_id == 0 as a load-bearing sentinel in three
places (KILL protection x2, fleet heat-fanout parent-chain
terminator), found by reading before writing any code.

Two real sentinel-collision bugs caught before shipping, same class as
STADIUM_CONTAINS_NONE: vm_uuid_none() (all-ones, not all-zero) for
"not yet assigned"/"no VM" placeholders; confirmed item 3.7's quota
table already used an in_use boolean rather than a vm_id sentinel, so
no second collision was actually possible there -- the dead,
never-referenced STADIUM_QUOTA_SLOT_EMPTY macro was removed.

Blast radius larger than first scoped, flagged mid-work rather than
silently absorbed: capsule_vm_physics.c/.h (the fleet heat-transfer
layer item 2.1 modified earlier this session) has its own vm_id-keyed
node table and walks parent_vm_id chains through the same identity
space, so it needed the same change, plus its callers in
mama_forth_words.c and sk_vm_bootstrap.c.

One live FORTH word contract changed, by explicit ruling: CAPSULE-BIRTH
was ( capsule-id -- vm-id ), a single cell -- can't hold 128 bits.
Captain Bob picked pushing two cells ("there is doubles support in the
FORTH std word set anyway"): ( capsule-id -- vm-id-hi vm-id-lo ).
MAMA-VM-ID changed the same way: ( -- 0 0 ).

Verified: full (not standalone-file) kernel rebuild to catch cross-file
breakage given the size of this change -- it surfaced the
capsule_vm_physics.c blast radius a narrower check would have missed.
Three-architecture boot (amd64, aarch64, riscv64), all reaching ok>
with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the item-3.7
baseline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 19:50:34 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 b0416794de starkernel: item 2.2 complete -- bound the VM registry
Wires the birth-refusal check into capsule_birth_baby(): calls
vm_registry_live_count() (added in the prior WIP commit) between
capsule validation and vm_registry_alloc(), returning the new
CAPSULE_RUN_ERR_FLEET_FULL and logging via
capsule_parity_log_birth_failed() before any EMBRYO registry slot is
consumed.

Also fixes a gap in that WIP commit: STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT was only
ever defined via a Kconfig .config-driven -D flag, with no fallback
default the way every sibling knob in starforth_config.h has -- a
build with no .config present (this one) failed with the macro
undeclared. Added STARFORTH_CONFIG_STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT_DEFAULT (4,
matching Kconfig.kernel) following the existing HEARTBEAT_INFERENCE_FREQUENCY
pattern exactly.

All three architectures boot clean to ok> with dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f,
matching the item-0.10/2.1 baseline. FABRIC.md item 2.2 checked off.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 13:54:22 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 5572e5e429 WIP: item 2.2 -- bound the VM registry (not complete, do not check off)
Partial work toward FABRIC.md punch list item 2.2. Adds the
STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT Kconfig symbol (default 4, per item 1.5) wired
through Makefile.starkernel, a new CAPSULE_RUN_ERR_FLEET_FULL result
code, and a vm_registry_live_count() helper in capsule_birth.c that
counts LIVE VMs only (distinct from the existing monotonic
vm_registry_count, which never decrements on death).

NOT YET DONE: nothing calls vm_registry_live_count() yet -- the actual
birth-refusal check is not wired into capsule_birth_baby(). Not built,
not boot-tested. FABRIC.md's item 2.2 checkbox is deliberately left
unchecked; this commit exists only to save in-progress work before a
pause, not to claim the item complete.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 13:30:06 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 542d7dbf0d starkernel: restate VM fleet heat transfer on the virtual tick
Punch list §25 item 2.1 complete.
vm_physics_touch() no longer takes a wall-clock timestamp -- it reads
fleet_heartbeat_tick_count internally, which is execution-paced
(vm_runtime.c:143), not wall-clock. VMPhysics.last_active_ns ->
last_active_tick, VMFleetTouchSample.elapsed_us -> elapsed_ticks, and a
new explicit `touched` flag replaces the old `> 0` sentinel (tick 0 is
a legitimate value a first touch can land on, unlike wall-clock ns).

Verified: three-architecture boot (amd64 x2, aarch64, riscv64), all
reaching ok> with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the
item-0.10 baseline. No new compiler warnings in the touched files.

Honestly flagged, not fixed: with Tripod pruned to Hera alone (item
0.1), vm_physics_touch()'s fan-out has no other live VM to pull heat
from, so the fleet-heat-sum acceptance criterion is trivially satisfied
rather than genuinely stress-tested -- a real check needs Phase 4's
multi-VM fleet. fleet_transfer_slope_q48's seed (65536/3) was
calibrated for elapsed microseconds and has not been re-fit for elapsed
ticks; left as-is rather than guessed, deferred to item 5.1's DoE work.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 13:15:50 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 cc6c8c43f3 Fix ABORT to actually unwind to QUIT instead of one level
ABORT is documented and tested in this codebase as standard FORTH-79
behavior -- system_words_test.c:63: "Should clear stacks and return to
QUIT" -- meaning it should unwind all the way back to the outermost
interpreter loop, abandoning whatever's left of the current line/block.
The implementation only unwound one level: every place that checked
vm->abort_requested cleared it the instant it saw it, so it never
survived to propagate past the first nested frame.

This surfaced via Artemis's ART-HALT-UNRECOG (capsules/artemis/init.4th):
on an unrecognized disk it correctly printed "ARTEMIS HALT: unrecognized
disk content" and called ABORT, but WELCOME (the next line in the same
block) ran anyway, and Artemis announced ready to Hermes and joined the
fleet normally -- contradicting .claude/ARTEMIS.md's "Refuse to mount...
do not overwrite it" requirement. Root cause is general, not
Artemis-specific, and present identically in both the hosted and kernel
VM cores.

Fixed at every level execution can nest through, verified by exhaustively
grepping every !vm->error-gated continuation loop and adding the parallel
!vm->abort_requested check:

- execute_colon_word (src/vm.c, src/starkernel/vm/vm_core.c): stop
  clearing the flag on return -- every colon-word call is a recursive
  call to this same function, so leaving it set lets every enclosing
  frame's own check also unwind.
- vm_interpret (src/vm.c, src/starkernel/vm/vm_core.c): stop parsing
  further words in the current input string once the flag is set.
- exec_block_with_retry (src/starkernel/capsule/capsule_loader.c):
  capsule birth's line-by-line block executor -- stop processing further
  lines in the current block, but return 0 (not -1), so
  capsule_exec_payload still loads later blocks in the same capsule
  payload. Returning -1 here would have silently broken word definitions
  in blocks that come after the aborting one for reasons unrelated to
  why it aborted (concretely, Artemis's ART-PING/LOAD-DOE in blocks
  4851/4852, which follow the entry block 4133).
- THRU and --> (src/word_source/block_words.c): stop processing further
  blocks/lines in their own loops.
- DODOES (src/word_source/defining_words.c): the CREATE...DOES> runtime
  has its own hand-rolled execution loop, separate from
  execute_colon_word -- same bug class, same fix. Also guarded the
  post-loop "if (vm->rsp < base_rsp) vm->rsp = base_rsp" clamp so it
  doesn't fire on an abort exit -- ABORT's own reset_vm_state() already
  set rsp; restoring it to base_rsp would have partially undone that.
- Both REPL loops (src/repl.c, src/starkernel/repl.c x2 call sites):
  clear the flag after each line, mirroring the existing vm->error
  pattern, so a mid-line abort doesn't silently freeze subsequent
  interactive input.

Verified directly: ": AB-TEST 1 2 3 ABORT 999 . ;  AB-TEST 42 . CR
777 . CR" -- 999 never prints (stops mid-colon-word), 42 never prints
(stops the rest of the same line), 777 prints fine (next line
unaffected). Artemis: WELCOME/"Artemis ready" no longer fires after the
halt message. No regression: all three architectures still show PASS:
persist-read, PASS: E2E msg flow, and matching dict_hash on the normal
(non-aborted) boot path; hosted test suite 965 passed / 0 failed.

Known follow-up, not fixed here (see memory for details): Artemis still
announces ready to Hermes via a separate call path (CD-INIT, block 4141)
that never went through capsule_exec_payload's block chain in the first
place, and the disk file still picks up incidental writes even on a
correctly-halted boot -- likely generic block-subsystem housekeeping,
not traced yet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-02 10:07:18 -04:00
Robert Allan James a5ed8c3d87 Initial commit — LithosAnanke kernel 2026-08-01 07:49:56 -04:00