ENGINE step 4 Phase 1, Tasks 5b-5d, and the edge cases (Captain Bob, 2026-11-13: "Build it to proper spec"; "Check for the edge cases"; "Yes, add it to v4-checks"). - v4/system/mesh.c, v4/include/v4/mesh.h: the nucleus assembled by the ROM and given to Hera as F18 cells; Hera born empty at place 0, the kernel on port 0, the console on port 1; told she is 10, in the registry, the kernel's words, FORTH-79, sealed, POST, the kernel's capsules. NODE-BORN / NODE-KILL in the owner's room. - No scheduler: v4_mesh_tell returns once the node told says how its text ended, and v4_mesh_step / v4_mesh_busy let the host step the fabric while it waits, so nodes run between lines as during them. A text left "waiting" is owed its end: the next line ends it "Interrupted" and is then run (MESH.md 7b.6). - kernel: sk_v4.c boots through the mesh; its idle steps the fabric while a node can run, and halts only when none can (#151 kept). stadium_return_quota and stadium_ops_forget on a kill. - Tests: v4/tests/test_mesh_boot.c (32 checks: the boot, births, kills, rebirth, a live number, a fault, no such node, Hera not killing herself, no room, a line too long, a node running for ever, a wait broken by the next line), run by `make -C v4 test` and under ASan+UBSan by `sanitize` (v4-checks); kernel/tests quota return; scripts/qemu_session.py births() and the edges on bare metal. - Docs: ENGINE.md 6 "who runs next" struck (settled: no scheduler); the Phase 1 plan; FABRIC-3 XLVIII.23; .claude/memory/rules.md: alpha.5 closed to new work. - Evidence: v4-checks 80 programs under the sanitizers, 0 failures; the hosted builds alike; two stopped v4-checks runs labelled STOPPED; three development amd64 boots labelled. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017RzZgrf7V7Zk2iczBXDRbm
experiments/
Design of Experiments (DoE) campaign data and analysis for the LithosAnanke kernel.
bare_metal/— the bare-metal DoE experiment: blind full-factorial 2⁴ runs measuring the L8 Jacquard mode selector's effect on the Steady-State Machine across amd64/aarch64/riscv64. Seeexperiments/bare_metal/README.mdfor the full directory layout (runs/,latest/,analysis/{charts,tables,report}).
Hosted-VM DoE campaigns (factorial/heartbeat/ablation studies) live under
docs/working/experiments/ instead — this top-level directory is
specifically the kernel/bare-metal side.