Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Adds SkHermesChannel: a channel is an index into a boot-time, stadium_max_vm_count()-sized table (same sizing pattern task 3.1 established for the switch table -- no separate numeric rule was ruled for this table, so task 3.1's bound is extended directly, flagged as such rather than restated as a new ruling). No name field, mirroring messaging.4th's own nameless CH-ARENA. The common channel (index 0) is created at boot and permanent. Hera subscribes explicitly in kernel_main.c (she is the one VM never born through capsule_birth_baby()); every other VM -- Tripod fleet and future WIREBIND identities alike -- subscribes inside capsule_birth_baby() itself, the single choke point every other birth already passes through. Inert: no publish, no dispatch, no ACK/NACK, no ACL hook (tasks 3.3, 3.6, 3.7). Verified live on all three architectures: channel table sized to 50/202/50 slots (matching switch-signal's own per-arch sizing), common-channel fleet self-test confirms all four Tripod members are members, and a synthetic create/subscribe/unsubscribe/ destroy round-trip against a private topic passes, including refusing to destroy the common channel. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Hosted StarForth VM implementation (compiled by the root Makefile).
Bare-metal kernel sources live in src/starkernel/; FORTH word
implementations in src/word_source/; the test harness in
src/test_runner/; platform shims in src/platform/.
Entry point / interpreter core
main.c— CLI entry point, VM init, DoE mode dispatch.vm.c— interpreter loop, stacks, dictionary state (the central runtime file).vm_api.c— external VM API implementation.vm_bootstrap.c— VM bootstrap initialization.vm_debug.c— debugging utilities.vm_time.c— time-related VM operations.vm_internal.h— internal-only declarations shared across thevm_*.cfiles, not part of the publicinclude/vm_api.hsurface.repl.c— REPL read-eval-print loop.cli.c— CLI argument parsing.io.c— I/O operations.log.c— logging infrastructure.
Memory / dictionary / blocks
memory_management.c— dictionary allocator.dictionary_management.c— dictionary allocation and search.dictionary_heat_optimization.c— Loop #1 execution-heat tracking.word_registry.c— word registration system.block_subsystem.c— logical→physical block mapper.blkio_file.c,blkio_ram.c,blkio_factory.c— block I/O backends (file-backed, RAM-backed) and the factory that selects between them.stack_management.c— stack operations.
Physics-driven adaptive runtime (7 feedback loops)
physics_runtime.c— main physics coordinator.physics_hotwords_cache.c— Loop #1 hot-words caching.physics_metadata.c— per-word metadata tracking.physics_pipelining_metrics.c— Loop #4 word-transition prediction.physics_execution_hooks.c— execution instrumentation.rolling_window_of_truth.c— Loop #2 circular execution-history buffer.inference_engine.c— Loops #5/#6, statistical inference (window-width, decay-slope).ssm_jacquard.c— L8 Jacquard steady-state mode selector; consumescompudynamics.cfor tuning-word/config lookups.compudynamics.c— generic compudynamics module (cd_tuning_word(),cd_tuning_vm()); the score/UCB/reward/weight constants for the L8 adaptive table live here, not inssm_jacquard.c.heartbeat_export.c— heartbeat metrics export (CSV export function itself not yet implemented — seedocs/working/architecture/heartbeat_csv_export.md).
Math / measurement
math_portable.c— portable math functions.profiler.c— performance profiling.doe_metrics.c— Design of Experiments metrics (2^7 factorial).
Any .bak file alongside a .c file here (doe_metrics.c.bak,
inference_engine.c.bak, vm.c.bak) is a pre-edit backup left by a past
maintenance script (see scripts/remove_loop_conditionals.sh), not a
build input.