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/starkernel/
Headers for LithosAnanke, the bare-metal UEFI kernel (src/starkernel/).
Built only via Makefile.starkernel; gated by __STARKERNEL__ when shared
with hosted code.
uefi.h— UEFI protocol/type definitions consumed by the loader.elf64.h,elf_loader.h— ELF64 parsing and kernel-image loading.boot_info_offsets.h— struct-offset constants shared between the assembly bootstrap and the C boot path.arch.h,apic.h,timer.h— architecture init, APIC interrupt controller, timer (TSC/HPET/APIC, 100 Hz heartbeat).console.h,framebuffer.h,vt100.h— UART 16550 console, framebuffer driver, and VT100 terminal emulation over the framebuffer.pmm.h,vmm.h,kmalloc.h— physical memory manager (bitmap allocator), 4-level x86_64 paging, kernel heap allocator.pci.h,virtio_blk.h— PCI enumeration and the VirtIO block device driver (disk backend for the kernel block subsystem).capsule.h,capsule_birth.h,capsule_loader.h,capsule_run.h,capsule_vm_physics.h,capsule_generated.h— capsule system types, birth protocol, physics-runtime capsule bindings, and the build-time- generated capsule directory (seetools/mkcapsule.c).kernel_args.h,cmdline.h— boot-time kernel argument parsing (starforth.cfg/ command line).repl.h— kernel REPL.log.h,doe_log.h— kernel logging and DoE metrics logging.q48_16.h— kernel-build copy of Q48.16 fixed-point arithmetic.xxhash64.h— content-addressing hash used for capsule IDs.hal_memory.h— hardware-abstraction-layer memory interface.
Subdirectories:
hal/— top-level hardware-abstraction-layer interface.vm/— kernel VM subsystem headers (capsule arena, parity logging, bootstrap wiring).freestanding/— minimal libc-shim headers (assert.h,ctype.h,errno.h,inttypes.h,math.h,sched.h,signal.h,stdio.h,stdlib.h,string.h,time.h,sys/time.h,sys/types.h) for building shared VM code in the freestanding kernel environment, where no real libc is available.