rajamesandClaude Opus 5.5
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The final review of step 6e, by a fresh reviewer told to break it, and what was ruled: fix them all, test first. Each has a test that failed before the mend. - Two texts from one node could be begun in the wrong order when room for their answers came between the node's look at the first and at the second. Texts whose answers go by the same port are begun in the order they came: (D-MASK), quit.v4. 102 of 700 timings were wrong before. - A word written with PORT! to a node that speaks whole messages, or to a console's port, blocked its writer for ever and cut off every node beyond it. It is error 18 now, whether that node is asleep, running or stuck: fabric.c, node.c. - A node asleep for room on one wire is woken when another of its wires is cut. - A line there was no room for on the lone node's wire was reported as a fault and ended the hosted program. It is Message refused, and the prompt comes back: V4_BOOT_LINE_REFUSED. hosted-check has the case; no bare-metal boot has typed it. - Ruled: text behind held output for the same port is refused though it would fit. MESH.md 7d.4 said otherwise and is corrected. - The removal test also cuts and re-makes a wire, and has an exchange in which output is held at a full wire: 26,814 disturbances in all. - MESH.md and v4/README.md no longer say that a stuck node holds up no other node, that only printing waits, or that no node is left waiting on one that is gone; 7d.6 lists the limits and what the products do that they did not before. make -C v4 test and sanitize at both widths, hosted-check, lint. Three bare-metal boots: logs/20261013-194827 (amd64), -195131 (aarch64), -195518 (riscv64). POST 538 of 538, word_count=317, dict_hash=0xe5a57f3eb72ff94a on all six; the three sessions are the same character for character. The boots were built with the working tree's uncommitted change to kernel/Makefile that adds the ISA to the kernel's version line. 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 and the
word-level ACL system design. (Note: the fleet is now Hera/Artemis/Hestia post-
reshuffle; the old Hera/Hermes/Artemis framing in older docs is historical. The older,
triaged copy of this tree is
working/architecture/03-architecture/.) - 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
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INDEX.mdis a dated triage snapshot (2026-06-16) and is stale. The authoritative current status lives in.claude/CLAUDE.mdanddocs/fabric/FABRIC-2.md/FABRIC-3.md/FABRIC-3.5.md/FABRIC-3.6.md— not in the status tags inINDEX.md.
- LithosAnanke M7.1 — live — init capsules, the Tripod fleet, Stadium physics-economy,
and word-level ACL (Phases 1–7 complete; Phase 8 Ed25519 PKI pending). See
lithosananke/ROADMAP.mdand the FABRIC documents above. - Tripod VMs (post-reshuffle) — Hera (governor), Artemis (memory/block storage),
Hestia; the Hermes VM was removed and messaging moved into the kernel as kernel-Hermes.
See
.claude/CLAUDE.md. - StarForth v4 — the F18-derived 32-opcode engine with the node/mesh design. See
v4.0.0/and../v4/README.md. - Word-level ACL system — see
03-architecture/word-acl/andlithosananke/ROADMAP.md.
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.