The header scan (Captain Bob, 2026-11-10): 788 source files -- 351 with the
SL-1.0 header, 12 with the old name (docs/working/experiments, kept by
ruling), 31 under someone else's licence (tools/kconfig, Linux's, GPL-2.0:
kept), and 394 with none. Ruled: the SPDX form; capsules (.4th, .f18) and
proofs (.thy) left for a ruling of their own (mkcapsule's 64x16 block format,
content-addressed capsules).
253 files now begin
SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Starship-1.0
Copyright (c) 2023-2026 Robert A. James
as a /* */ block (C, headers, assembly, linker scripts) or # lines (scripts,
Makefiles, Kconfig; below a shebang or a coding line); tools/mkcapsule.c,
which had the copyright line, gets the SPDX line only.
Not touched: docs/working/ (archive and old campaign material, as the
ruling kept the experiments); v4/system/post_cases.c (generated by
v4/tools/mkpost.py, "do not edit" -- the generator has the header).
Comments only: the kernel builds on amd64, aarch64, riscv64; make -C v4
test-32: 39 programs, 0 failures; every changed script parses.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GE3SDvQn5EoxdGufk84zz2
347 headers said "Licensed under the StarForth License, Version 1.0" -- a
shortening (Captain Bob, 2026-11-08: "License file SL I think I shortened
accidently"); LICENSE is, and has been since the first commit, the
Starship License 1.0 (SL-1.0, SPDX LicenseRef-Starship-1.0). 349 files,
566 occurrences, now "Starship License, Version 1.0 (SL-1.0)".
Left as they are, pending a ruling: docs/patent/ (the patent figures),
docs/formal/ (the citable volumes) and the generated reports under
docs/working/experiments/ (32 files). Comments and license text only:
the amd64 kernel builds, every changed script parses.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GE3SDvQn5EoxdGufk84zz2
Work in progress on StarForth-v4.0.0; not yet accepted (plan
2026-10-29-stick-5, Task 1).
- zuse_genesis_marker.h: the marker's version 2 -- the proxy's key and the
real Zuse's -- beside version 1.
- capsule_zuse_boot.c: capsule_zuse_boot_check_key() (the identity-record
half of the check) and capsule_zuse_boot_genesis_mint() (the mint half of
v3's genesis) split out; v3's two callers unchanged in behaviour.
- sk_v4_marker.c: the v4 boot reads version 1 as a proxy with no real Zuse,
and writes version 2.
- sk_v4_identity.c: no marker and a blank identity partition -> genesis:
mint, read back, then the marker; the proxy logs in. A marker with a real
key: no session for the proxy (the fixed screen is Task 5).
- qemu_session.py: boot()/shutdown(), so a mode can boot twice; modes
genesis and stick_genesis; stick_boot now expects genesis and the prompt.
Logs: genesis on amd64 before the change (both boots: "no genesis on this
disk", FAIL) and after (minted, then recognised: PASS). The DoE CSV of
032532 is from a run whose QEMU never started (no display; its empty log
directory was removed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GE3SDvQn5EoxdGufk84zz2
Ruled by Captain Bob, 2026-11-07: "New root CA on the CI box. Valid
StarshipOS rather than snake oil intermediate."
- ci/pki/make-ca.sh makes the StarshipOS Root CA (its key stays on the CI
box) and the StarshipOS Capsule Signing intermediate it issues, and
stores the signing key as the secret CAPSULE_SIGN_KEY.
- The kernel finds the signing certificate by one name,
CAPSULE_SIGNING_CERT_NAME = pki:starshipos-intermediate.der. The
certificate itself lands once make-ca.sh has run; until then the
snakeoil intermediate is in the tree under its old name and the
capsules check as "no root key" (a warning, as "missing" was).
- mkcapsule refuses a signing key that is not that certificate's.
- SIGN_KEY has no default; acceptance, build, nightly and release set it
from the secret.
FABRIC-3.md XLVI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GE3SDvQn5EoxdGufk84zz2
capsule_zuse_boot_check() makes the check capsule_zuse_boot_try_attach()
made -- the genesis marker, the drive's identity record (magic, version,
CRC-64, public key) -- and says HERS, GENESIS or NOT_HERS, with no VM;
capsule_zuse_boot_root_pubkey() reads the marker's key. try_attach and
load_root_pubkey call them; their behaviour and messages are unchanged.
The v4 boot will make the same check (identity gate plan, D1).
Shown on v3 (system=v3, amd64): the minted pair, "Zuse: identity
confirmed" and [zuse@Hera] ok> (logs/20261026-083603); a blank pair,
"Zuse: genesis minted onto attached thumbdrive" (logs/20261026-084729).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
FABRIC-3 SXXXII.4's deferred LOG-FLUSH, built to the 2026-10-14 rulings
(SXXXVIII): everything a VM logs, at or above the log level, goes into its
own buffer; it goes to Artemis on LOG-FLUSH, when full, and at once on an
ERROR, as one kernel-Hermes LOG_BATCH message she writes on her own turn,
the source being the sender the kernel stamped. Records that cannot go yet
are counted and reported with the next flush. LOG-SHOW (Hera only) reads
the ring back -- it had no reader.
Found by the first test that filled it: ring growth overwrote the oldest
record and put blank slots inside the live range. Fixed test first.
Three ISAs: POST 1052 passed; new parity baseline word_count=526
hash=0x82f4ae7cb2e2d424 (deliberate). CLAUDE.md: Phase 8 PKI closed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Any identity could have arbitrary FORTH run as Zuse: KH-ELEVATE-SEND and
KH-BLK-ATTACH-SEND sent any text to Hera, from any VM (shown live). And the
drain popped a message after running it, so a payload calling a colon word
ran twice. Both fixed test first (FABRIC-3 SXXXVII):
- KH-BLK-ATTACH-SEND is ( dev-addr ok? -- sent? ), Artemis only; the kernel
writes the reply text. BLK-ATTACH-ACK is Hera's only.
- The drain pops before it runs.
- Elevation, ruled not needed: KH-ELEVATE-SEND, message type 8,
zuse-eligibility.4th, ZUSE-ELIGIBLE?/ZUSE-ELIGIBILITY-ADD/
ELEVATE-PUBKEY-UNPACK and the eligibility list removed; its disk area
stays reserved, unused. FABRIC-3.7 closed.
Three ISAs: POST 1052 passed; new parity baseline word_count=523
hash=0xb73b58052d591638 (deliberate).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
FABRIC-3.5 SXXXII, closing FABRIC-3 SXXIX bug 2 (SXXXVI). A send marks the
receiver for the switch signal; the VM's own loop on its native stack takes
its messages and yields; Hera's idle beat makes the pending switch instead
of running other VMs' messages on her stack; every VM gets switcher turns
from birth; the drain refuses any call outside the VM's own context (the
test: it held every relayed line before, none now).
Found on the way: amd64's first-entry frame left rsp 8 bytes off the SysV
entry alignment (#GP on the first interpreter run on a VM's own stack), and
a VM yielding from its loop was marked SWITCHED_OUT, which stopped console
relay after one message and would have made KILL refuse it.
Relay of four lines to a WIREBIND identity on all three ISAs, five
hot-plugged identities, and standard acceptance (POST 1052, hash
0x08873e0f44b7cb2a) all pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The global state becomes struct blk_chain, reached through a current
pointer: blk_chain_default, blk_chain_new, blk_chain_select. Nothing
that uses the one chain changes. blk_subsys_init loses its VM argument,
which was stored and never used. docs/v4.0.0/MESH.md 8.4.
Accepted on the v3 configuration: amd64, aarch64 and riscv64 reach the
zuse prompt, no UNKNOWN WORD, PARITY:M7.1a hash 0x08873e0f44b7cb2a on
all three, as on 2026-10-03. logs/20261006-202918, -203036, -203230.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
One boot, v4/system/boot.c, for both products: it starts the nucleus image,
finds each capsule in the baked capsule directory, recomputes its hash,
checks its signature, gives its blocks to the node a line at a time, and
prints PARITY:V4_NUCLEUS, PARITY:V4_CAPSULE and PARITY:OK before the prompt.
A line the node does not accept ends the boot with the capsule, block and
line named. docs/v4.0.0/NUCLEUS.md.
- hosted Linux product for amd64, aarch64 and riscv64 (make -C v4 hosted);
make -C v4 hosted-check boots all three and requires identical output
- the kernel's v4 entry (STARFORTH_V4=1) calls the same boot
- capsules/v4/forth79.4th, block 6000: no definitions yet
- mkimage builds the nucleus only; no FORTH source is compiled at build time
- capsule_blocks.c: the Block-header parse, free of any VM, for every loader
Verified: make -C v4 test passes; hosted-check passes on the three ISAs with
the same hashes; the kernel compiles with STARFORTH_V4=1 on the three.
Not verified: no bare-metal boot of v4 has been run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Source tree reorganization:
- Move StarForth v3 engine to v3/ (src/, include/, Makefile)
- Move kernel to kernel/ (src/, include/, linker/, Makefile)
- Create v4/ skeleton for F18-ISA golden model (DECOMPOSITION.md, JUSTIFICATION.md)
- Move FABRIC-0..4.md to docs/fabric/
- Move ONTOLOGY.md and ROADMAP.md to docs/
Board infrastructure:
- Add boards/ser5/, boards/raspi/, boards/milkv/, boards/zynq7020/
- Each board has board.mk (ISA, CPU flags, boot recipe) and README.md
- Root Makefile becomes thin dispatcher: boot_image, all, clean, docs take TARGET
- make boot_image TARGET=SER5|RASPI|MILKV builds one GPT/MBR image per board
- ZYNQ7020 target exists but stops with clear error (ARMv7 port not built yet)
- scripts/mkdiskimage.sh builds disk images for all boards
Docs pipeline:
- docs/book/ with LaTeX master (main.tex) and Makefile
- pandoc converts Markdown to LaTeX at build time
- Two Lua filters: table-widths.lua (wide tables wrap), code-breaks.lua (inline code breaks)
- make docs builds single PDF (754 pages, 0 missing characters)
- make docs TARGET=<board> adds board appendix
- build/docs/<book|board>/meta.tex stamps git commit into PDF
Bug fixes:
- 42 include paths that only worked by accident now use correct relative paths
- clang-18 hardcode replaced with configurable CC variable (fixed aarch64 build)
- Pi 5: kernel_2712.img linked at 0x80000, .bss zeroed, memory reserved
- Doxyfile, .clang-tidy, README.md, Kconfig paths updated
Verified:
- Hosted v3 build passes 1012 tests, 0 failures
- SER5 image boots in QEMU (OVMF), POST passes, K exact (65536 = Q48_ONE)
- Milk-V image boots in QEMU (OpenSBI + U-Boot + bootefi), POST passes
- make clean TARGET=<board> removes only that board and its ISA objects
- make all builds all boards, hosted v3, and docs in one run
Co-authored-by: Junie <junie@jetbrains.com>
Claude