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rajamesandClaude Opus 5.5 b5d644d498 feat(v4.0.0): the prompt -- QUIT, ABORT, ABORT" and ."
Layer 5 of the compiler capsule.  The host node is now started at QUIT and
left running: it prompts, reads a line from its console with QUERY,
interprets it, says " ok" or " ERROR", and goes round again.

- capsule/quit.v4: QUIT and ABORT (FORTH-79), ABORT" and (ABORT") as v3 has
  them, ." and (.") (FORTH-79).  Text is compiled as a counted string after
  the call; the run-time word returns to the cell after it.
- INTERPRET prints v3's messages before abandoning a line:
  UNKNOWN WORD: 'xxx' and xxx: compile-only.
- core.v4: CR SPACE COUNT TYPE, as DECOMPOSITION.md gives them.
- input.v4: WORD split so that (PARSE) can take text without skipping
  leading delimiters (." " is an empty string); EXPECT keeps its place in
  memory, so six values may wait on the stack while a line is typed.
- tests/test_host_quit.c: the node is fed characters and its output read;
  16 sessions are transcripts of the v3 binary.

QUIT stops the line from inside any word and says nothing; v3's goes on
with the line and cannot be compiled.  v3's compiled ABORT" crashes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-04 11:49:44 -04:00
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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. See formal/CLAUDE.md for 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notes, DoE experiment logs, hardware/platform notes, draft specs, academic-paper source material, and an archive of superseded docs.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.md and lithosananke/M7.1.md.
  • Word-level ACL system — Phase 6 complete on master; Phase 7 (LithosAnanke parity) is the next step. See 03-architecture/word-acl/README.md.
  • Tripod VMs — Hera (governor), Hermes (messenger), Artemis (memory/block storage). See 03-architecture/tripod/README.md and birthing/.

Contributing

  • Place new material in working/ first; promote to formal/ only when it's ready to be cited (see formal/CLAUDE.md for promotion criteria).
  • Never touch patent/, formal/patent/, formal/scraps/legal/, or working/legal/ without Bob's explicit instruction.
  • Add a README.md to any new category-level subdirectory, following the format used throughout this tree: orientation paragraph + bullet list of real files with one-line descriptions.