Section T -- +0.0603%, final accepted figure
Extended Section S's 3-seed/9-pair campaign to 6 seeds/18 pairs (36
cells) per Captain Bob's request for a fuller campaign before moving
on. All 36 cells: 480/480 rows, 0 errors, 17,280/17,280 rows total.
Every one of 18 disabled cells reads exactly 261063 ticks -- CV=0.000%
across all 3 architectures and 6 seeds, zero exceptions. Every enabled
cell's tick count is fully determined by seed alone, identical across
all 3 architectures, zero exceptions. Pooled overhead across all 18
pairs: +0.0603% (mean +0.0603%, stdev 0.0008%, range +0.0598%-
+0.0617%) -- statistically indistinguishable from Section S's 9-pair
figure, now confirmed over double the data with 3 entirely new seeds.
This closes the ACL-TTL overhead measurement line of investigation
(Sections P, Q, R, S, T). +0.0603% is the final accepted figure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
-- +0.0604% mean, architecture-independent, fully deterministic
All 18 cells (9 arch/seed pairs x disabled/enabled, zuse-authenticated
throughout) complete: 8,640/8,640 rows, 0 errors. Every disabled cell
reads exactly 261063 ticks -- CV=0.000% across all 3 architectures and
3 seeds. Every enabled cell's tick count depends only on seed, identical
across all 3 architectures for a given seed. Pooled overhead: +0.0604%
(mean +0.0604%, stdev 0.0010%, range +0.0598%-+0.0617%).
This is now the accepted ACL-TTL overhead figure for this workload,
superseding Section P's invalidated wall-clock numbers (ACL never
actually armed) and refining Section R's single-pair pilot (+0.0448%,
n=1) to a tight, fully-reproducible, architecture-independent result
across 9 independent pairs.
One tooling bug fixed mid-campaign (cells 1-3): tick-extraction regex
missed the "[Hera] " console-tagger line prefix; underlying VM runs
were unaffected, affected cells' values recovered by hand from their
serial logs before the fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
find and fix the real ACL-TTL measurement bug (zuse session never
authenticated, ACL enforcement never active)
Two mistakes corrected in sequence, both documented in full in
FABRIC-2.md Section R:
1. HEARTBEAT-TICKS@ was swapped to read heartbeat_ticks() -- a newer,
kernel-only ISR hardware-timer counter (src/starkernel/heartbeat.c,
the M5 TIME-TRUST engine) -- based on a misreading of which counter
"the one clock" law refers to. Reverted to vm->heartbeat.tick_count,
Loop #7 "Adaptive Heartrate", the actual year-plus-old counter the
whole physics runtime is built on. Removed the now-irrelevant
HEARTBEAT-PERIOD-NS@ accessor added to diagnose the wrong counter's
adaptive re-arm period. Three-arch QEMU re-acceptance: POST 1012/0/0
on amd64/aarch64/riscv64, HEARTBEAT-TICKS@ confirmed returning 77
(matching the original pre-heartbeat_ticks() acceptance) on all three.
2. The real bug, found after the revert: every "ACL enabled" measurement
in this investigation (Section P's 18-cell campaign, Section Q's
pilot) loaded ACL.4th and ran EXEC-DOE from the bare `ok>` prompt
without ever authenticating a zuse session. repl.c:303 keeps
emergency_console=1 until zuse_session=1; vm_core.c:755 skips the
entire ACL check block (TTL decrement and acl_recheck()) whenever
emergency_console is set. ACL was configured but never armed.
capsules/zuse.4th's pre-existing self-pin bug means the documented
automatic zuse activation doesn't work either (still flagged, not
fixed) -- worked around by invoking the directly-registered
ZUSE-AUTHENTICATE word explicitly.
Validated pilot (amd64, seed 12345, 30 reps, same build, disabled vs.
genuinely zuse-authenticated-enabled): +117 ticks, +0.0448% overhead.
Disabled-arm determinism double-confirmed (261064 ticks, exact repeat
on a fresh boot) -- the 117-tick difference is real signal, not noise.
Reconciles with the original ACL-RWT campaign's own heartbeat-tick
result (+0.0054%-0.0088%, same order of magnitude). Section P's
wall-clock numbers and Section Q's "instrument blind" conclusion are
both marked invalidated/corrected in place, not deleted.
n=1 per arm, one architecture -- not yet a full campaign. Scoped as
next step, not undertaken in this pass.
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instrument blind to the effect, not a corrected number
Per Captain Bob's correction (heartbeat tick counter is the sole
canonical clock, not wall-clock), added HEARTBEAT-TICKS@ and re-ran the
ACL-TTL overhead measurement using tick deltas. Diagnostics confirmed
the counter is a FORTH-level colon-word-dispatch counter (frozen at
idle, jumps with real work) -- not a wall-clock proxy. A pilot pair
(amd64, seed 12345, 30 reps, ACL disabled vs enabled) produced
byte-identical deltas (261064 ticks both runs): acl_recheck() runs at
the C dispatch level and doesn't change which/how many colon words
execute, so it's invisible to a counter gated on colon-word-entry
count. Root-caused, not proceeding to the full 18-cell campaign --
every cell would read +0.00% by construction. Section P's wall-clock
numbers stand as the best estimate on record pending a instrument that
can see per-dispatch cost rather than control-flow shape.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Full 18-cell paired campaign (9 arch/seed pairs x ACL disabled/enabled)
complete: 8,640/8,640 rows, all 16 cfg values x 30 each in every cell,
zero errors. Confirmed capsules/zuse.4th's ACL-ZUSE-BOOT self-pin bug
(self-pin placed inside its own colon definition, causing a genuine
forward-reference failure) is isolated from the core ACL enforcement
mechanism -- verified via live VM state query on multiple cells that
ACL-INIT-PRIMITIVES and EXEC/BYE pinning both complete correctly
regardless.
Result: +5.30% pooled overhead, +4.42% unweighted mean across the 9
pairs (sd 6.77%), paired t=2.043 (df=8) -- not significant at p<0.05.
Documented honestly as a real positive trend that doesn't establish a
precise percentage with confidence, given wall-clock timing's noise
floor is comparable to the effect size -- unlike the original ACL-RWT
campaign's VM-internal tick-counter methodology. A tighter measurement
(more replications, or reading a VM-internal counter directly) is
scoped as a next step, not attempted here.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ACL-RWT naming/dead-code finding found while scoping the next step
Section O: points to the 127-page deep-dive report and corrected
dataset already committed (dbe4b67, cf5b08f), records the headline
determinism findings, and documents a real finding surfaced while
looking at ACL's current state before implementing a paired
ACL-enabled/disabled measurement -- the "ACL-RWT" name traces to a
Rolling Window of Truth TTL mechanism that ACL.4th's own comments
record as dead code from the day it was written (removed 2026-07-08,
never reachable by the C hot path). The original June 2026 campaign
predates that removal by three weeks, raising a real historical-
accuracy question about what its own overhead numbers measured -- not
settled here, just flagged. Ruled: future paired measurements use an
accurate name ("ACL-TTL overhead") since RWT no longer exists in the
codebase at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Found while building the analysis report for the ACL-RWT relaunch
campaign: cfg=0 was missing from run coverage for 2 of 3 seeds, reproduced
identically across all three architectures. Root-caused rather than
worked around, per Captain Bob's "this is worrisome."
SWAP-MTX (capsules/doe.4th Block 2104) never actually swapped two
RUN-MATRIX cells -- it performed a lossy one-way copy (second MATRIX!
call mis-targeted mat[i] again instead of mat[j]). Confirmed by direct
empirical test on the hosted build: INIT-MATRIX gives mat[0]=0, mat[5]=5;
after 0 5 SWAP-MTX, mat[0]=0 (unchanged, should be 5) and mat[5]=0
(correct), with the original value 5 permanently destroyed. Every
Fisher-Yates shuffle this mechanism has ever run silently duplicated some
values and dropped others -- not a true permutation. Not new, not
introduced by item 4.6/Stadium work; predates this session.
Fixed with explicit temp variables (SW-I/SW-J/SW-VI/SW-VJ), trivially
verifiable by inspection over clever stack juggling. Verified on the
hosted build for all three seeds used by the relaunch campaign: each now
produces all 16 cfg values exactly 30 times, run_id 0-479 fully distinct.
Three-arch QEMU acceptance clean: 1012/0/0 POST on all three, identical
dict_hash (expected -- doe.4th isn't C-registered or auto-loaded at
boot). BLOCK_MAP.md correctly shows only doe.4th's own hash changed.
Also includes the R analysis/chart pipeline (analyse_stadium_relaunch.R)
built for the relaunch campaign report, and the three acceptance boot
logs.
Retroactive caveat: the relaunch campaign's own run-matrix coverage
(experiments/bare_metal/runs/acl-rwt-20260820/) is not a valid uniform
permutation, having run against the buggy shuffle. Whether to re-run it
against the fix is a separate call, not made here.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Found and fixed a real bug before any campaign work could start: EXEC-DOE's
own CSV output was almost entirely lost to console interleaving with the
routine per-tick heartbeat export -- same bug class as Section L's PLOT
case. Fix: HB-OFF immediately before EXEC-DOE, HB-ON after DOE: complete.
Confirmed HB-ON-first (the reverse order) does NOT fix it -- tested
directly, row loss recurred identically.
Also found: L8-DOE/WL-HI/WL-LO (the mechanism bare_metal/README.md
describes as auto-run) don't exist anywhere in capsules/, and Makefile.
starkernel's DOE_SEED variable is declared but never referenced -- both
vestigial, matching Section K's earlier staleness finding.
Built QEMU-serial-socket injection tooling (socat) to drive EXEC-DOE
interactively after boot, since it requires live REPL input, not just
observation. Two real defects found and fixed in that tooling itself: a
log-discovery race (self-excluding the very log it needed to find,
causing two separate stuck-injector incidents, one overnight) and an
unredirected background launch that deadlocked socat on a full stdout
pipe. Both fixed by having the orchestrator pass exact log/socket paths
directly and always launching through the harness's tracked-background
mechanism.
First full campaign attempt ran all 9 cells as three ISA-blocked loops,
reusing one build per architecture -- caught mid-run: this confounds ISA
with time/session-order, invalidating the Latin square design. Discarded
(logs kept as audit artifacts, not treated as valid data) and re-run
clean: all 9 (arch, seed) cells in fully randomized order, fresh clean
rebuild before every single cell, one continuous sitting. Result:
4,320/4,320 rows captured, zero VM errors anywhere.
This validates the campaign mechanism runs cleanly and reproducibly under
the post-4.6 Stadium substrate -- satisfies item 5.1's own concern that a
green POST suite isn't evidence determinism holds post-migration. It does
NOT produce an ACL-RWT overhead number: ACL.4th is not self-activated in
this repo's default init.4th, so these 9 cells ran with ACL inactive.
Reproducing the original +0.0054%-+0.0088% measurement needs a paired
ACL-enabled/disabled run using this now-validated mechanism -- scoped,
not attempted here.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes the last open item in Section H. amd64 and aarch64 were already
confirmed post-quota-grant-fix; riscv64 was pending. Temporarily re-enabled
ART-STRESS-CAMPAIGN (block 4170, disabled since Section L) for this one
headless run, confirmed 30/30 reps / 1500/1500 trials passed with a clean
CAMPAIGN-DONE, then reverted the capsule back to its committed disabled
state (byte-identical to HEAD, mkcapsule --lint clean).
Two SUMMARY lines (reps 4, 15) printed visually garbled from concurrent
[HADES][DOE] console writes -- confirmed cosmetic only by grepping the full
log for refused (result=0) trials: zero matches across all 1500.
Also includes: the two DoE CSV exports and serial logs from this session's
riscv64 runs (audit artifacts per repo convention), and the resulting
Artemis disk image state from real block writes during the stress test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Captain Bob went with the recommended path rather than measuring now: item
5.1 + ACL-RWT overhead re-measurement stays deferred until Artemis lands,
since Artemis's own storage/timing work would immediately perturb whatever
baseline gets captured today. The other F.3 item (4.4s -> 1.11 -> 4.3 ->
S17.4 chain) is unchanged -- still genuinely blocked on ACL Phase 8, no
ruling needed there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Disabled capsules/artemis/init.4th block 4170's ART-STRESS-CAMPAIGN -- its
own comment already said to revert to disabled once the K-invariant/
heartbeat verification run (item 4.6, closed earlier this session) was
done. This was the actual ~25-30 minute wall blocking interactive REPL
access, unrelated to any DoE mechanism.
Verified capsules/turtle.4th and capsules/sdk.4th live in a gtk-display
QEMU session: a red hexagon (6 100 POLYGON) and a green self-intersecting
star (100 STAR) both render with correct geometry and color. Screenshot in
evidence/amd64/.
Two real obstacles found and worked around along the way: CS's full-
framebuffer PLOT loop is far slower under TCG than previously documented
(closer to 20+ minutes than "slow"), and the kernel's heartbeat CSV logging
draws to the same console surface PLOT writes pixels to, overwriting
drawings within a fraction of a second unless silenced first with the
existing HB-OFF word. Both HOWTOs updated to record this.
Re-verified full three-arch acceptance boot (POST, DoE, parity) with the
ART-STRESS-CAMPAIGN change: 1012/0/0 and matching dict_hash on all three,
identical to the pre-change baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Loads turtle.4th and doe.4th, defines SDK-VERSION/SDK-HELP into an SDK
vocabulary, then calls FENCE once everything is loaded -- protecting the
base wordset and both cookbook capsules from FORGET. Kernel-only (EXEC
doesn't exist hosted), REPL-invoked via S" sdk.4th" EXEC, not part of
init.4th's boot sequence.
Verified before writing the capsule, not assumed: VOCABULARY/DEFINITIONS
does not actually scope word visibility in this interpreter -- vm_find_word
is a flat dictionary scan that never consults CONTEXT/CURRENT. Documented
plainly in the HOWTO so this isn't mistaken for namespace isolation later.
Block range 5109-5115 -- discovered along the way that user-block space is
capped at [2048, 5120) by mkcapsule, tighter than expected.
Verified: mkcapsule --lint clean, hosted-build trace runs SDK-HELP with
zero attributable VM errors, zero build warnings and identical 1012/0/0
POST results with matching dict_hash on all three kernel architectures.
HOWTO: docs/working/architecture/SDK-HOWTO-20260819.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
FENCE ( -- ) exposes the dict_fence_latest/dict_fence_here state FORGET
already honored internally, letting callers (e.g. a future SDK capsule)
raise the boundary after loading their own content -- no new VM fields,
no policy logic beyond exposing existing state.
Writing a direct test for it surfaced a real, severe, pre-existing bug in
FORGET's relink logic, unrelated to FENCE itself and reproducible with the
original boot-time fence alone:
- Forgetting the single newest word incorrectly destroyed every other word
back to the fence too, not just the target.
- Forgetting an older word (correctly cascading to remove newer words too,
per FORTH-79 semantics) crashed with SIGSEGV.
Root cause: the relink code's target_prev pointer was, by construction,
always inside the range the preceding loop had just freed whenever target
wasn't vm->latest -- so writing through it was a use-after-free every time
that branch executed. Fixed by removing the target_prev tracking and both
branches entirely; vm->latest unconditionally becomes target_next (target's
own captured, still-valid link) after the free loop, correct in every case.
Added a FENCE test suite to dictionary_manipulation_words_test.c (Module 14)
including the exact regression case (forgetting the newest word must not
disturb an older one). Verified zero warnings and identical POST/dict_hash
results across all three kernel architectures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
No code in this commit. Two findings that reframe the scope: dict_fence_latest/
dict_fence_here already exist on VM and FORGET already honors them correctly --
set once at bootstrap, right after the base wordset registers, never exposed to
FORTH. "A proper FENCE" is exposing existing state via one new word (FENCE ( -- )),
not designing a new mechanism. VOCABULARY/DEFINITIONS/CONTEXT/ORDER are already
registered and POST-tested but have never been used in any real capsule content --
an SDK capsule would be the first production use.
Five open questions named but not decided: SDK word inventory, load model
(autoload/opt-in/REPL-only), kernel-only-vs-portable (EXEC is kernel-only, so a
capsule that EXECs the cookbook capsules can't claim hosted portability), the
1.5.4 -> 1.9.0 version jump, and turtle.4th's still-unconfirmed rendering if it
ships as an SDK demo.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Documents capsules/doe.4th's word-level DOE/EXEC-DOE entry points, CSV
format, and a verified-not-fixed caveat: the rep column doesn't track
actual repetition count when n-reps differs from the file's fixed N-REPS=30
constant (cfg is unaffected, only rep is misleading -- use run_id instead).
Also surfaces, but does not fix, a real staleness finding in
experiments/bare_metal/README.md: its documented L8-DOE/WL-HI/WL-LO
entry point and workload-dispatch mechanism does not exist anywhere in the
current capsule set. What "DoE" actually names today is three separate
mechanisms (doe.4th's word-level DOE, doe-campaign.4th's fleet-touch
campaigns, and artemis/init.4th's auto-run ART-STRESS-CAMPAIGN) -- this
HOWTO documents only the first, per explicit scope decision.
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First entry in the "cookbook" track: a demo capsule plus HOWTO, per the
sequencing laid out after the POST-coverage sweep. Built entirely in FORTH
on top of existing primitives -- fabric.4th's LINE (raster Bresenham) and
Q.SIN/Q.COS (Q48.16 trig), plus PLOT/FB-WIDTH/FB-HEIGHT -- no new C words.
FORWARD/BACK/LEFT/RIGHT/PENUP/PENDOWN/HOME/SETXY/SETHEADING/SETCOLOR give
the classic turtle model; POLYGON and STAR compose FORWARD+turn into simple
demo shapes; TURTLE-DEMO is a one-call visual smoke test. Not wired into
init.4th -- REPL-invoked only, matching the original idea's own scope.
Verified: mkcapsule --lint clean, hosted-build logic trace shows zero VM
errors and correct stack balance through the whole vocabulary, zero build
warnings and capsule loads cleanly on all three kernel architectures.
Visual pixel-level confirmation not yet done (needs an interactive
gtk-display session or driving past the ~25-30 min DoE-before-REPL wall),
documented as an open item in the HOWTO.
HOWTO: docs/working/architecture/TURTLE-GRAPHICS-HOWTO-20260819.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cluster 4 of the POST-coverage sweep: physics_freeze_words_test.c covers the 6
words proof/StarForth_Physics_Freeze_Words.thy actually gives real lemmas for
(FREEZE-WORD, UNFREEZE-WORD, FROZEN?, HEAT!, HEAT@, DECAY-RATE@), correcting
an earlier fork summary's wrong "5 words" scope.
Writing the tests surfaced two independent, pre-existing bugs in
physics_freeze_words.c, both now fixed:
- Every address-taking word cast the VM's caddr directly to a host pointer
instead of resolving it through vm_ptr() -- caddr is an offset into
vm->memory, not a host pointer. Fixed in all 9 call sites (the 5 in-scope
words plus SHOW-HEAT, which shares the identical pattern).
- Every underflow check used dsp < N (item count) instead of dsp < N-1, since
this VM's dsp is a 0-indexed top-of-stack pointer. Fixed in all 6 checks.
Together these meant every word in this file taking a stack-supplied name has
been broken for any real caller since the file was written. Verified zero
build warnings and a clean three-arch QEMU boot (amd64/aarch64/riscv64), 1009
passed / 0 failed / 0 errors identically on all three, dict_hash matching
across arches.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New module (inference_words_test.c, Module 26) covers exactly the 8
words proof/COVERAGE.md marks proof-covered in inference_words.c (out
of 20 registered): the 5 output accessors (INFER-WINDOW@/DECAY@/
VARIANCE@/FIT@/EARLY-EXIT@), INFER-RUN (populates what they read), and
Q.VARIANCE/INFER-DECAY-SLOPE/INFER-WINDOW-WIDTH (array-based
primitives, using HERE as multi-cell scratch memory). Deliberately not
the L8 Jacquard or Bayesian-posterior words in the same file -- not
proof-covered, out of this cluster's scope.
Caught and fixed a contract-selection mistake before booting: copied
CONTRACT_PHYSICS_TRANSPARENT from the Q48.16 cluster without checking
whether it fit. It doesn't -- these words are specifically about
reading physics state (dictionary heat, rolling window), so asserting
A4' transparency on them would test an invariant they deliberately
don't have. Switched to CONTRACT_NONE with an explanatory comment.
Boot-verified: zero warnings, all 9 suite entries pass, FINAL TEST
SUMMARY 1031->1040 total / 993->1002 passed (+9 exactly), 0 failed,
contract checks (A4'/A1) still report "all passed" -- confirms the
CONTRACT_NONE fix actually avoided the violation, not just silenced it.
Cluster 4 of 4 (final one) left: physics freeze/diagnostic, 5 words.
Full writeup in FABRIC-2.md Section J.
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New module (q48_words_test.c, Module 25 -- matches word_registry.c's own
existing numbering for this file's registration) covers all 23 words in
q48_words.c: no test file existed for this file at all before. Standard
WordTestSuite/TestCase tabular format, unlike ACL's hand-rolled style --
these are pure stateless functions, a natural fit. 28 TestCase entries;
values built via Q.FROM-INT/Q.1/Q.0, read back via Q.TO-INT for readable
log output.
Verified q48_16.h's q48_to_u64() sign-extends through a signed int64_t
intermediate before writing the Q.NEG/Q.ABS tests, rather than assuming
negative round-trip works.
Boot-verified: zero build warnings, all 23 words pass individually,
FINAL TEST SUMMARY 1003->1031 total / 965->993 passed (+28 exactly),
0 failed, 0 errors. Noted (pre-existing, not fixed): print_module_summary()
is called with hardcoded (name,0,0,0,0) across every WordTestSuite module
in the tree, including this new one -- decorative, always zero; the real
counts live in each word's own per-suite line and the global summary.
Cluster 3 of 4 in the POST-coverage sequence (code sweeps -> HOL green ->
POST coverage, one proof-covered cluster at a time). Two clusters left:
inference-engine accessors, physics freeze/diagnostic. Full writeup in
FABRIC-2.md Section J.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds interpreter-level POST coverage for six ACL read accessors
(ACL-MODE@/PINNED?/TTL@/ALLOW@/HEAT@/WORD-ID), ACL-INHERIT as an
interpreted word (not just its underlying C function, already tested),
and ACL-INIT-PRIMITIVES -- all proof-covered per proof/COVERAGE.md but
never exercised via vm_interpret() before. Follows acl_words_test.c's
existing hand-rolled ACL_ASSERT style, not the WordTestSuite table
format the rest of the tree uses.
First boot caught a real bug in the new test itself (2/29 assertions
failed): ACL-INHERIT's C implementation pops dst before src, the test
pushed them backwards. Fixed the test, not the word -- ACL-INHERIT's
own dispatch was correct throughout. Re-verified: 29/29 pass, zero
build warnings. Both the failing and fixed boot logs kept as evidence.
Part of the agreed sequence (code sweeps -> HOL green -> POST coverage,
one proof-covered cluster at a time). Three more clusters queued:
Q48.16 math primitives, inference-engine accessors, physics
freeze/diagnostic words. Full writeup in FABRIC-2.md Section J.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ran isabelle build -c (clean, forces fresh rebuild bypassing any cached
heap) for real, per the agreed sequencing (code sweeps -> HOL green ->
POST coverage). All 52 theories rebuilt from scratch in 42s, zero
errors/failures/sorry/oops anywhere in the log -- upgrades the earlier
entry's static-inspection-only inference to an actual verified result.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Maintainability sweep (prompted by "this is getting hard to maintain"):
fixed the remaining three warning classes after the missing-field-
initializers commit -- 2x -Wsign-compare (control_words.c, cast at the
comparison site rather than changing cf_last_mode's type, which
deliberately holds a -999 sentinel outside vm_mode_t's valid range),
2x -Wstringop-truncation (mkcapsule.c, strncpy+manual-null-terminate
replaced with the idiomatic snprintf equivalent), and 26x
-Wunused-parameter (mostly documented stubs, silenced with the repo's
existing (void)param; idiom).
One of the unused-parameter warnings was not a deliberate stub -- a
real bug. restore_vm_state() (test_common.c) is named, documented, and
called by nine real call sites (acl_words_test.c x8 plus its own
internal use) as "restore saved VM state", but ignored all four of its
parameters and hard-reset to a fixed baseline instead, silently not
restoring what any caller actually saved. Fixed to actually assign the
passed-in dsp/rsp/error/mode. Found while fixing warnings, reported
before touching it, fixed/tested/documented/committed on explicit
instruction.
Verified: all three architectures build with zero C-compiler warnings
(amd64: 3040 -> 0; aarch64's one remaining note is lld-link's own
unrelated linker warning, not a C warning). Full amd64 acceptance boot
post-fix: POST 1003/965/0/0/38 (total/passed/failed/errors/stubs),
"ALL IMPLEMENTED TESTS PASSED!", contract checks (A4'/A1) all passed,
dict_hash=0x24b4279f0670aa3a -- an exact match to this document's own
previously-recorded baseline hash.
.claude/CLAUDE.md corrected to describe the real -Wno-error= exemption
list instead of the "-Wall -Werror" oversimplification. FABRIC-2.md
Section J records the full sweep, including doc-tree staleness findings
flagged but not fixed this pass (docs/lithosananke/ROADMAP.md branch
topology, docs/03-architecture/word-acl/DESIGN.md's Phase 7 claim
contradicting CLAUDE.md, top-level ROADMAP.md's stale StarForth-era
status, the Isabelle pipeline-metrics model mismatch).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
FABRIC-2.md item 5.2: both lemmas described as deliberately oops-flagged
(ROLL semantics, pipeline pm_wf invariant) were actually resolved
2026-08-13, same day, but FABRIC-2.md was never updated to match --
found during a docs-tree maintainability sweep. Corrected both, and
flagged a real untracked finding the pipeline fix surfaced: the Isabelle
model's accuracy num/den fraction pair doesn't correspond to the real
PipelineGlobalMetrics C struct at all. Also reconciled the theory-count
drift (53/54 mid-sweep numbers vs. the actual current 52, matching
proof/COVERAGE.md; proof/FINDINGS.md's own stale "53" flagged but not
fixed, out of this pass's scope).
docs/CLAUDE.md described a docs/Makefile with docs-formal/docs-working/
docs-index/docs-audit targets that doesn't exist anywhere in the tree.
The real build is docs/formal/Makefile with a completely different
target set (vol1/vol2/vol3/books/standalone/doxygen/clean) -- corrected
to match, and noted docs/INDEX.md has no automation and goes stale
between manual triage passes.
doxygen installed on this machine (was missing entirely, blocking the
API-reference build target).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Recorded in item 4.6's own closure entry in FABRIC-2.md, not literally
under FABRIC.md's §10 -- matches how item 4.2's effort number actually
lived (inside that item's own punch-list entry), and respects
FABRIC.md's own closed/no-further-edits rule. Same format as item 4.2's
report: session time, lines changed split FORTH vs. C surface, file
count.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Item 4.6 (Artemis Stadium migration) was still marked open despite its
own "Done when" criteria all being met by today's work: Stadium-admission
boundary shipped, FM-* untouched, ART-STRESS-CAMPAIGN 30/30 on all three
arches, POST clean, three-arch boot logs, ARTEMIS-K conservation holding.
Marked closed with a pointer to Section H; noted the one unverified
criterion (the §10 effort-number bookkeeping step) rather than silently
claiming it was done.
Found during a full sweep of FABRIC-2.md for the same tracking-drift
class that forced FABRIC.md's closure (§12 Q5, fixed in the prior
commit) -- this was the other real instance found.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Found while checking for the same scattered-punch-list problem that
forced FABRIC.md's closure: §12 Q5 was actually closed 2026-08-15 (the
STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK flat-4000-divisor fix), but Section D's checkbox
was never flipped to [x], and Section F.3's punch list still re-listed
it as an open question. Fixed both; corrected the F.2/F.3 "net result"
summary to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause of the aarch64 BYE cold-restart exception (present since at
least 2026-08-08, ESR_EL1=0x02000000/EC=0 "Unknown reason"), found via
live gdb single-stepping through the actual crash: arch_cold_reset()
issued PSCI SYSTEM_RESET via `smc #0`, but QEMU's aarch64 virt machine
booted with AAVMF (UEFI firmware, no genuine EL3/TrustZone secure
monitor) serves PSCI via HVC, not SMC -- nothing exists to answer an
SMC call, so it trapped as an illegal instruction straight into the
kernel's own exception handler. Not memory corruption, not a race --
a wrong conduit for this boot configuration.
Fix: smc #0 -> hvc #0. Function ID and calling convention unchanged.
Getting to this required first discovering that starkernel_kernel.elf
is not the binary that actually runs -- MONOLITHIC_BUILD links
kernel_main() directly into starkernel_loader.efi, a completely
separate, differently-linked build artifact. Every earlier gdb
breakpoint attempt this session failed because it used addresses from
the wrong file. Real addresses (UEFI-chosen ImageBase + linker-map
RVA) let gdb catch the crash live for the first time.
Verified: full aarch64 acceptance pass, 30/30 stress-campaign reps
PASS (unaffected -- this bug only manifested on BYE), and BYE now
exits cleanly with no exception for the first time in this
investigation.
Full writeup in FABRIC-2.md Section I.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Continued investigating the aarch64 BYE cold-restart exception (FABRIC-2.md
Section I). Added permanent boot diagnostics: kmalloc_heap_base_addr()/
kmalloc_heap_end_addr() now print in print_heap_stats(), confirming the
fault address is provably inside the kmalloc heap (not kernel code, not
firmware). Bumped aarch64 QEMU RAM to 4096MB to test heap-placement
sensitivity (no effect -- heap size is a fixed 2GiB default, independent
of total RAM once "enough" exists).
Three separate live gdb debugging attempts (software breakpoint, hardware
breakpoint on arch_cold_reset, hardware breakpoint on mama_word_bye's
entry) all silently failed to fire despite disassembly-confirmed-correct
addresses and confirmed execution reaching those points. A sanity check
(hbreak on console_println, called thousands of times per boot) also never
fired even 8802 lines into a serial log -- conclusively a gdbstub/QEMU
tooling limitation for this aarch64 target, not a kernel-side finding.
Live single-stepping is not currently viable here; documented so it isn't
re-attempted the same way.
Root cause still open. Full trail in FABRIC-2.md Section I.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Artemis's 30-rep surface stress campaign was failing 100% of trials on all
three architectures: stadium_grant_quota() ran after IDENTITY exec in
capsule_birth.c, but Artemis's init.4th auto-runs the stress campaign as
part of that same IDENTITY exec, so every STADIUM-ADMIT call during it hit
a nonexistent quota slot and refused unconditionally. Moved the grant call
before IDENTITY exec. Verified 30/30 reps PASS on amd64, aarch64, and
riscv64 post-fix (was 30/30 FAIL on all three pre-fix).
Also fixed an independent, real bug found during the same acceptance pass:
aarch64's arch_cold_reset() issued PSCI SYSTEM_RESET using the SMC64
calling convention (0xC4000009), which is not a valid PSCI function ID --
SYSTEM_RESET has no SMC64 variant. Corrected to the SMC32 encoding
(0x84000009). This did not resolve the separate aarch64 BYE cold-restart
exception also found in this pass (root cause not yet found, tested and
refuted an interrupt-race hypothesis, documented in FABRIC-2.md Section I
for follow-up) but is a genuine spec fix worth keeping regardless.
Full writeup, evidence, and the still-open aarch64 crash investigation in
FABRIC-2.md Sections H and I.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Records the pre-work ruling: Stadium residency for Artemis block heat is
admission-on-allocate (mirroring item 4.2's MBR-ALLOC precedent), not a
1:1 slot table across all 22,998 possible LBNs. FM-* freemap stays
untouched; BLK-ALLOC/BLK-FREE become the stadium_admit/evict boundary.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes FABRIC-2.md's last open §12 Q5 question. fleet_heartbeat_tick_count
is fed by every live VM's own vm_tick(), not one VM's, so it was reaching
HEARTBEAT_INFERENCE_FREQUENCY (shared/borrowed from the per-VM inference
gate) several times faster than intended with more than one VM live -
backwards from FABRIC.md §22.4's required ~1000:1 separation.
What's actually gated turned out to be low-stakes: vm_physics_tick()
(capsule_vm_physics.c:397) is a passive statistics refit - re-sorts a
window of past heat-transfer samples and recomputes a median rate
estimate. It doesn't move heat or arbitrate capacity. Firing too often
just meant a noisier statistic recomputed more frequently than planned,
not incorrect behavior.
Considered and explicitly rejected: scaling the threshold by live VM
count at the check site. That's the first brick of a scheduler - reading
fleet state to adjust a rate dynamically - which this project has
deliberately avoided building. Implemented instead: STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK
(existing Kconfig symbol, defined but never read by any code path) now
gates vm_physics_heartbeat_tick()'s call directly, replacing the borrowed
HEARTBEAT_INFERENCE_FREQUENCY. Default bumped 1000 -> 4000, a flat
constant picked once for Tripod's known 4-VM topology, same kind of
placeholder as every other frequency knob in Kconfig.kernel - not
computed from anything at runtime. Renamed fleet_last_inference_tick ->
fleet_last_capacity_tick to match. Still one clock, one counter
(fleet_heartbeat_tick_count) - just a bigger flat divisor on it.
Three-arch QEMU acceptance: all clean to ok>, identical Stadium
conservation invariant on all three (resident_sum=43691 reservoir=21845
sum=65536). logs/20260815-093425/amd64, logs/20260815-093521/aarch64,
logs/20260815-093641/riscv64.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Captain Bob ruled directly: all four subsystem docs are superseded, not
individually assessed for partial staleness case-by-case. FABRIC.md
(design history) and FABRIC-2.md (current/living) are the sole
design-of-record for Tripod/Hermes/Artemis/Console work now.
Added a superseded-header banner to the top of all four .claude/*.md
files, pointing to FABRIC.md/FABRIC-2.md. Corrected .claude/CLAUDE.md's
own pointer paragraph, which previously claimed these four were
individually "authoritative" for their subsystems - that's now wrong.
Closes FABRIC-2.md's three open documentation questions (CONSOLE.md's
fate, HERMES.md's stale block map, 5.3's larger shrink-the-docs ask) at
once: the header approach makes reconciling a superseded document's
internal accuracy moot, and accomplishes what "shrink to a pointer" was
already trying to do.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT (Kconfig, hardcoded default 4) with a
boot-time computation, mirroring the pattern stadium_boot_init() already
used for the cell pool. New Kconfig STADIUM_VM_MEMORY_PERCENT (default
50): max_vm_count = (kmalloc_get_stats().free_bytes after the cell array
* STADIUM_VM_MEMORY_PERCENT / 100) / VM_MEMORY_SIZE, floored to 1, no
ceiling (population is not knowable in advance - could be 4, could be
4000). stadium_quotas and word_slots (plus stat_promotions/stat_evictions)
are now kmalloc'd to the computed count instead of declared with a macro.
New accessor stadium_max_vm_count() replaces every STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT
reference, including capsule_birth.c's birth-refusal gate.
Two things found and fixed along the way:
- The existing cell-pool budget was sourced from pmm_get_stats(), which
reflects physical pages PMM hasn't handed to any subsystem yet - but
the actual allocation is kmalloc(), which draws from the separate,
fixed-size heap kmalloc_init() (M6) already carved out of PMM before
stadium_boot_init() ever runs. Budgeting against PMM's leftover and
allocating from the kmalloc heap are two different pools. Both the
cell budget and the new VM-count budget now source from
kmalloc_get_stats() instead.
- stadium_owner[] (which VM's quota owns each cell) was uint8_t, capped
at 255 slots by a compile-time assert tied to the old macro. Widened
to uint16_t (65535 slots of headroom) with a runtime clamp + log if
the computed count ever exceeds that, since there's no ceiling anymore.
Three-arch QEMU acceptance: all clean to ok>, computed VM count genuinely
differs by actual available RAM (amd64/riscv64: 50 slots at -m 1024,
aarch64: 101 slots), Stadium conservation invariant identical across all
three (resident_sum=43691 reservoir=21845 sum=65536).
logs/20260815-080526/amd64, logs/20260815-080826/aarch64,
logs/20260815-080952/riscv64.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The prior wording ("give the capacity tick its own named constant...
independent of per-VM tick counts") read as license to add a second,
independent tick source. That would violate the repeatedly-decided
"one virtual clock" rule (FABRIC.md §16.4 GAP-A1, §17.1). Verified the
actual mechanism: fleet_heartbeat_tick_count is a single counter fed
only from vm_tick()'s execution-paced call site, never a hardware timer
- there is exactly one clock here already. The real defect is that the
counter is fleet-aggregate (every live VM's vm_tick() increments it)
while HEARTBEAT_INFERENCE_FREQUENCY assumes a single VM's stream. Fix
is a bigger threshold on the same counter, not a new clock. Corrected
in both the detailed §12 Q5 entry and the F.3 punch list line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per Captain Bob's request: separate the pre-Artemis closeout triage into
two independent tracks (F.1 documentation, F.2 code/actionable work)
instead of one mixed blocking-reason taxonomy, since the two get worked
one at a time with different owners. F.3 adds a condensed punch list
distilled from both tracks. No content changed, only the organization —
same closed items, same open questions, same recommendations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
src/vm.c.bak, doe_metrics.c.bak, inference_engine.c.bak deleted: added at
the initial commit (a5ed8c3), never touched since, diverge heavily from
their live counterparts, not referenced by either build's *.c wildcard,
fully recoverable via git history. Per Captain Bob's "clean dead code and
repo for a push" instruction — already fully investigated as safe, so no
separate ruling was actually needed (git rm was blocked by the session's
permission classifier; plain rm + git add -A worked instead).
Also corrects two claims in the Section F triage that overstated/understated
what was verified: the block-window cache's Artemis-dependency was stated
as settled when it was actually an unverified inference (now flagged as
such), and section 12 Q5's STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK ordering violation was
softened to "structurally invisible" when the prior investigation in this
same document found it live today with Hermes restored (restated to match).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Buckets every open item across the document into: closed this pass,
genuinely blocked on non-Artemis work, and items needing Captain Bob's
ruling before they can move. Closes the loop on the "close everything
until Artemis is the blocker" instruction with a concrete state instead
of an open-ended list.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
bump-z/bump-y referenced STARFORTH_VERSION_MAJOR/MINOR/PATCH/STARFORTH_VERSION_STRING
fields that never existed in the generated include/version.h, so they could never
have worked. Removed rather than fixed since CLAUDE.md already documents hand-editing
VERSION/LITHOS_VERSION in Makefile.starkernel as the real convention.
tools/README.md documented a fbtest.c that never existed in any commit; replaced with
the ttftest.c row that actually matches the tools/ directory.
Part of the pre-Artemis closeout pass (FABRIC-2.md Section C).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Process correction: the sweep (proof/FINDINGS.md, proof/COVERAGE.md, the
low-risk repair pass, and the dictionary-insertion/TIB/DF gap-closure
continuation -- commits 346c793 through d59a913) was tracked only in
session memory instead of here, contrary to \S25.0's own rule that new
findings and decisions land in this document. Added retroactively under
item 5.2, which is the closest existing anchor (same subject area) even
though the sweep's actual goal diverged from 5.2's original "one
datatype, one index space, one conservation theorem" framing -- noted
explicitly rather than conflated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Isabelle toolchain replaced (was genuinely 2011, 14+ years stale) and every
theory file fixed to actually compile -- most had apparently never been
checked under a working Isabelle at all. Fixed the vm_state self-reference
in StarForth_Base.thy properly (word_table is now a free-standing global
constant, not a circular record field), corrected the word_physics_transparent
axiom (was claiming full state equality from mere exec-equivalence, provably
too strong), and worked through 14 years of HOL-Library drift plus several
missing-hypothesis bugs across the physics-loop and ACL theories.
Two genuine (non-tactical) bugs found and left oops-flagged rather than
silently resolved: forth_roll's index arithmetic disagrees with both its own
test lemma and the real C ROLL implementation (three-way inconsistency), and
pm_wf isn't actually preserved by pm_record_hit/pm_record_miss. Both need a
decision, not a proof-script fix.
Full writeup in FABRIC-2.md item 5.2.
Isabelle2011-1 (genuinely 14+ years old) replaced with Isabelle2025-2 at the same path. Real build attempt: HOL-Library builds clean, StarForth session fails on one root-cause file (StarForth_Q48_16.thy) -- undefined fact, two non-closing proofs, one name collision against a new HOL-Library constant. Everything else is downstream unresolved-import fallout, not independent breakage. Not fixed yet.
ARTEMIS.md got the same well-scoped fix as TRIPOD.md (already committed separately). CONSOLE.md's entire architecture premise (Console as 4th Tripod VM) was superseded by FABRIC.md §17.5's later utility-not-patron ruling, and its keyboard-input-doesn't-exist claim is false -- i8042.c/virtio_input.c and the 4.4v keyboard bridge are live. HERMES.md's message-node cell count (8) contradicts the capsule's own 9 CONSTANT MSG-CELLS, and its locked block map is missing item 4.2's new blocks. Both reported, not fixed -- too large for a one-paragraph correction, left for Captain Bob's call on rewrite vs. superseded-header treatment.
Item 0.1 pruned capsules/init.4th to Hera-alone; TRIPOD.md was never updated to match. Corrected to reflect current on-demand-birth reality and distinguish Artemis-the-storage-device (auto-attaches at boot, kernel_main.c) from Artemis-the-VM-patron (not auto-spawned). Partial closure of FABRIC-2.md item 5.3 -- the doc's broader shrink-to-three-lines scope remains open.
Extends the existing lexicon (which already covered heat/decay/inference vocabulary but predated Stadium work entirely) with patron, mass, density, K, cell, code field, Stadium, warehouse, utility -- all cited to their FABRIC.md DECIDED sections. Adds a Kconfig-knob-to-concept table with verified wiring status, flagging STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK as dead (matches this session's §12 Q5 finding). Bumped to v1.1.
Live console/framebuffer stack has zero dirty-region or heat/decay instrumentation (grepped framebuffer.c/vt100.c/console.c). True prerequisite is item 1.11 (dirty-event granularity), still unstarted, not 'the framebuffer work' generally, which has since shipped. Left open.
Traced every loop's actual firing cadence from source. Headline finding: the fleet-capacity loop (vm_physics_heartbeat_tick, the exact mechanism §22.4 cites as precedent) shares a global counter fed by every live VM, so with Tripod's real multi-VM topology it can fire faster in wall-clock terms than any single VM's own heat-inference loop -- the opposite of §22.4's required ordering. STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK, the Kconfig symbol §22.4 specified as the fix, exists but is never read anywhere. Reported, not fixed; left open for Captain Bob's call.
Hermes v1's real message struct (init.4th blocks 4100/4105/4143) is 72 bytes with an out-of-line pointer+length payload, not the speculative 64-byte-cell/32-byte-inline-payload scheme from FABRIC.md §23.3. The design question is moot: the implementation went a different direction.
Verified via tools/kconfig/conf + kernel_amd64_defconfig: a .config edit to CONFIG_SK_PARITY_DEBUG genuinely flows through to the parity.c compile line's -D flag in both directions. Required installing bison/flex, which were missing.
