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docs/CLAUDE.md Phase 1 output, after the reorganisation. - docs/README.md: rewritten as the map -- where each kind of document lives, which one to believe (CLAUDE.md, FABRIC, v4.0.0, reference/, BRINGUP, code), how to retire a document. - docs/INDEX.md: regenerated from the tracked tree, 489 rows, every document with a status (the 2026-06-16 snapshot was stale). - docs/DEAD-AND-REVISED.md (new): what was abandoned (L4Re, the hal_* contract, ACL RWT, the Hermes VM, elevation, the knowledge factor, ...) and what was corrected (ACL overhead, versions, block rules, parity baseline, ...), each with its date and record. - docs/DELETE-CANDIDATES.md: 12 duplicates, awaiting a ruling; nothing deleted. - CLAUDE.md: versions corrected (3.2.0 / 2.1.0). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Dead ideas and revised claims
A register, started 2026-10-14 by the docs triage. An idea that was abandoned, or a claim that turned out wrong, keeps its documents (archived, with a header) — this page says, in one place, what is no longer true, since when, and where the decision is recorded. Add to it whenever a document is superseded or a claim corrected.
Dead — abandoned, removed, or never adopted
| Idea | Since | What happened | Recorded in |
|---|---|---|---|
| L4Re / Fiasco.OC as a platform target | mid-2026 | Removed as an active target; LithosAnanke is its own kernel. | .claude/CLAUDE.md (Project Overview); docs archived in working/archive/dead/l4re/ |
The hal_* interface contract and its migration plan |
flagged 2026-10-09 | Never adopted; the kernel grew its own HAL. | working/archive/dead/hal-target-contract/; the HAL as built: kernel/src/hal/README.md |
ACL "Rolling Window of Truth" (ACL-RECHECK-RW) |
removed 2026-07-08 | Dead code from the start: acl_recheck() only ever looked up ACL-RECHECK. |
fabric/FABRIC-1.md §M–T |
The Hermes VM and FORTH messaging (messaging.4th, MSG-TICK) |
2026-09-22 | Messaging moved into the kernel as kernel-Hermes; the Tripod is Hera / Artemis / Hestia. | fabric/FABRIC-3.5.md, FABRIC-3.6.md; old docs in working/archive/superseded/2026-08-tripod/ and .claude/HERMES.md (frozen) |
| Running a VM's messages from Hera's idle loop (a second delivery path) | 2026-10-14 | One path: a VM takes its own messages on its own turn. | fabric/FABRIC-3.md §XXXVI |
Word-ACL elevation on request (ELEVATE-GRANT, KH-ELEVATE-SEND) and Zuse's eligibility list |
2026-10-14 | Ruled not needed: privilege comes from the drive. Removed, with the hole it carried; the list's disk area is reserved, unused. | fabric/FABRIC-3.md §XXXVII; fabric/FABRIC-3.7.md (closed) |
| A knowledge factor for identity (PIN, passphrase) | 2026-09-23 | Built, tested, reverted: "there's only the drive." | fabric/FABRIC-3.7.md §4 |
| Defending against a byte-for-byte cloned identity drive | 2026-09-23 | Accepted by design, not a gap. (Copying from within StarshipOS is blocked.) | fabric/FABRIC-3.7.md §4 |
| The StarForth-era roadmap (VM -> kernel -> OS -> FPGA, 2025-12) | flagged 2026-08-26 | Overtaken; the architecture and terms it uses no longer exist. | working/archive/superseded/2025-12-14-starforth-roadmap.md; now reference/ROADMAP.md |
| The complete 2^6 factorial DoE | flagged 2026-10-09 | Obsolete. | working/archive/superseded/factorial-doe/ |
| "Everything is a VM" system architecture, draft 0.1 | 2026-01-27 | A vision draft; what was built is in the FABRIC record. | working/archive/historical/2026-01-27-system-architecture-draft.md |
Deferred, not dead:
- The multiuser/multitasking DoE campaign (
fabric/FABRIC-3.md§XXXIII–XXXV). Deferred past bare metal, 2026-10-14. Its original 30-reps-per-cell design (about 10.3 days) had already been replaced, in §XXXIV.4, by a segmented per-ISA design. - Keyboard VMs. A concept only (2026-10-14), not designed.
Revised — claims that were corrected
| Was | Is | Since | Recorded in |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACL overhead "+0.0054%–+0.0088%" (the "ACL-RWT" campaign) | +0.0603%, the live ACL-TTL mechanism, CV 0.000% | 2026-08-21 | fabric/FABRIC-1.md §T |
| Kernel version 2.0.1 | rolled back to 2.0.0 on 2026-09-04 (2.0.1 names the SER5 hardware line), now 2.1.0 (tag v2.1.0) |
2026-09-22 | fabric/FABRIC-3.md §I.2; kernel/Makefile |
Capsule blocks must be in [2048, 5120) |
2048 or more, no upper bound | 2026-10-05 | v4.0.0/NUCLEUS.md §5.2 |
| A capsule block is a 1024-byte budget | 64 characters x 16 lines (mkcapsule --lint) |
2026-09-19 | .claude/CLAUDE.md (block format) |
Parity baseline: 530 words, hash 0x08873e0f44b7cb2a |
526 words, 0x82f4ae7cb2e2d424 (elevation words out, LOG-FLUSH/LOG-SHOW in) |
2026-10-14 | fabric/FABRIC-3.md §XXXVII, §XXXVIII |
| Identity drives attached together are dropped (§XIV) | no longer reproduces, all three ISAs | 2026-10-14 | fabric/FABRIC-3.md §XIV |
THRU/LOAD lose the rest of their line |
fixed | 2026-10-14 | fabric/FABRIC-3.md §XXXIV.1 |
| The log ring's growth is "safe regardless of wrap state" | it was not; fixed | 2026-10-14 | fabric/FABRIC-3.md §XXXVIII |
The Pi 5's GIC is under /axi with two-cell addresses; its framebuffer address needs & 0x3FFFFFFF |
under /soc, one cell, read through ranges; the address goes through dma-ranges |
2026-10-14 | fabric/FABRIC-3.md §XXXIX |
| The old elevation path passed a raw cross-VM address | it copied text (the narrower real gap was a " in a name) |
2026-09-22 | fabric/FABRIC-3.7.md (its own correction) |
.claude/ARTEMIS.md, HERMES.md, TRIPOD.md, CONSOLE.md describe the system |
frozen as record, superseded by FABRIC-3.5/3.6 | 2026-09-22 | .claude/CLAUDE.md (top) |
Open discrepancy, not decided here: the top-level README.md is titled "LithosAnanke v2.0.1",
but the kernel is 2.1.0, and the versioning policy reserves 2.0.1 for the SER5 hardware line
(reference/ROADMAP.md). Captain Bob's call which it should say.