Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Added HERMES-CHANNEL-OPEN? ( req-hi req-lo -- allow? ) at capsules/ACL.4th block 4008 (default: approve everything) -- the one word policy authors edit. sk_hermes_channel_open_policy(VM*, VMUuid) (kernel_hermes.h/.c) is the C-side query that calls it via plain word-dispatch against the target VM's own dictionary/stack, never vm_interpret() (avoids task 3.4's input-buffer cursor hazard entirely) and never decides the answer itself. Fails closed: no policy word, a policy error, or stack underflow all deny, matching CLAUDE.md's posture that absence of policy must never mean "always allow." Two real bugs found and fixed before this was called done: missing current_executing_entry assignment before calling the word's func pointer (colon words silently no-op without it, vm_core.c:730 -- no crash, just a wrong answer); and a second FAIL with debug instrumentation still in place whose precise cause isn't reconstructable, since no intermediate commit exists for that attempt. Self-test proves the task's check four ways against the same unchanged C function: default approve, live redefinition to deny (zero C change), restore, and a VM with no ACL.4th loaded at all (fail closed). A fifth check wires the result into task 3.6's sk_hermes_channel_respond() end to end: a denied policy produces a NACK and no channel, ledger/stadium_conserved() holding throughout. Scope, per Captain Bob's ruling: closes with the query built and proven; sk_hermes_channel_respond() still takes a caller-supplied approved bool rather than calling the policy internally. Wiring a real channel-open call site to only this query is deferred to whichever later task first needs a live decision. dict_hash identical across amd64/aarch64/riscv64 for every VM, zero UNKNOWN WORD, mkcapsule --lint clean (38 files, 0 violations). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
include/
Public headers for the hosted StarForth VM (src/). Kernel-only headers
live under include/starkernel/.
Core VM
vm.h— theVMstruct and all core types (DictEntry,DictPhysics, stacks, dictionary state); the central header most other files include.vm_api.h— external VM API surface.vm_host.h,vm_debug.h,startup.h,version.h— host integration, debug utilities, startup sequencing, version string.cli.h,repl.h,io.h,log.h— CLI parsing, REPL loop, I/O, logging.word_registry.h— word registration system shared by everysrc/word_source/*.cfile.compudynamics.h— the generic compudynamics module: tuning-word/config lookups (cd_tuning_word(),cd_tuning_vm()) consumed byssm_jacquard.c.
Memory / blocks
memory_management.h,dictionary_management.h— dictionary allocator and search.block_subsystem.h,blkcfg.h,blkio.h,blkio_factory.h— logical→ physical block mapper and pluggable block I/O backends (file/RAM).platform_alloc.h,platform_lock.h,platform_time.h— platform abstraction shims (hosted vs. kernel allocation/locking/timing).
Physics-driven adaptive runtime (7 feedback loops)
physics_runtime.h— main physics coordinator.physics_hotwords_cache.h— Loop #1, execution-heat hot-words cache.physics_metadata.h— per-wordDictPhysicsmetadata tracking.physics_pipelining_metrics.h— Loop #4, word-transition prediction.physics_execution_hooks.h— execution instrumentation hook points.rolling_window_of_truth.h,rolling_window_knobs.h— Loop #2 circular execution-history buffer and its tuning knobs.inference_engine.h— Loops #5/#6, window-width and decay-slope statistical inference.dictionary_heat_optimization.h— Loop #1 heat counters.ssm_jacquard.h— L8 Jacquard steady-state mode selector.doe_metrics.h— Design of Experiments (2^7 factorial) metrics.profiler.h— performance profiling hooks.
Arithmetic / codegen
q48_16.h— Q48.16 deterministic fixed-point arithmetic (used instead of IEEE-754 float specifically to keep cross-architecture behavior bit-identical).math_portable.h— portable math helpers.arch_detect.h,starforth_config.h— architecture detection and the build-flag fallback-default layer (used when a.cfile is compiled by hand withoutmake).vm_asm_opt.h,vm_asm_opt_arm64.h,vm_asm_opt_riscv64.h,vm_inner_interp_asm.h,vm_inner_interp_arm64.h,vm_inner_interp_riscv64.h— per-architecture assembler-optimized inner interpreter (USE_ASM_OPT=1).
See include/starkernel/README.md for the bare-metal kernel headers.