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MESH.md step 3. The ports are the transport; the message is what is transported: to, from, type, heat and TTL, ACL tag, sequence, length, then text four characters to a word. - quit.v4: a node with nothing to do is blocked reading "any port"; text for it is interpreted; (FINISH) sends what it printed and then how the text ended, and it waits again - core.v4: EMIT keeps what is printed, (FLUSH-OUT) and (HDR) send it to the sender on the port the message came on. EMIT still needs one free data cell and no more; it works on the return stack and in A and B - message.h/.c: the same format for whatever is on a port and is not a node - boot.c: the boot is the node's console on port 1 and its kernel on port 0 - the prompt tests are a console that speaks messages - gone: v4_line_begin, v4_line_done, v4_line_status; writing a node's input buffer and setting its P from outside; any use of CONSOLE-TX Verified: make -C v4 test (test_host_quit.c 1283 checks, the full-stack figures unchanged) and make -C v4 sanitize pass; hosted-check passes on three ISAs with POST 550 of 550; clean qemu with STARFORTH_V4=1 passes POST and answers lines typed at each prompt on amd64, aarch64 and riscv64 (logs/20261006-110551, -111621, -111341). -110837 is an aarch64 run ended by the test wrapper's limit while still in UEFI firmware; it shows nothing about v4. Not done: KEY, EXPECT and QUERY still read the console's input registers; a message not for this node is let go (step 4). 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material, and an archive of superseded docs.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 (Hera/Hermes/Artemis) and the word-level ACL system design.
- 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
- LithosAnanke M7/M7.1 — VM parity validation and init capsule architecture.
See
lithosananke/README.mdandlithosananke/M7.1.md. - Word-level ACL system — Phase 6 complete on
master; Phase 7 (LithosAnanke parity) is the next step. See03-architecture/word-acl/README.md. - Tripod VMs — Hera (governor), Hermes (messenger), Artemis (memory/block
storage). See
03-architecture/tripod/README.mdandbirthing/.
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.