Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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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>
LithosAnanke v1.5.4
UEFI-bootable FORTH microkernel. Boots from firmware, initialises memory and interrupts, then runs the StarForth VM as its sole userspace runtime. No libc. No OS. Just stone and necessity.
Lithos (foundation) + Ananke (necessity) — the kernel under StarshipOS.
Status — M7.1 (Capsule System · Multi-VM Fleet)
| Milestone | Status | |
|---|---|---|
| M0–M6 | UEFI boot · PMM · VMM · IDT · APIC · heap · framebuffer VT100 console (v1.5.1-FINAL) | ✅ Complete |
| M7 | StarForth VM integration + parity validation | ✅ Complete |
| M7.1 | Capsule birth protocol · Mama FORTH vocabulary · Tripod multi-VM fleet (Hermes/Artemis) · Word-level ACL (Phases 1–7) | 🔄 In Progress |
| M8 | REPL — keyboard input, interactive Forth | Planned |
| M9 | Block storage — AHCI driver | Planned |
POST at boot: parity hash verified across amd64/aarch64/riscv64 · Mama capsule dictionary: 453 words
What's live in M7.1
- Tripod — a named multi-VM fleet (Hera the Mama VM, Artemis, two Hermes instances) births, runs, and re-births independently, verified booting live pre-REPL on all three architectures.
- Hermes — a 17-block inter-VM messaging/channel layer between fleet members, with async delivery and channel negotiation.
- Artemis — a Block Allocation Map (BAM) storage subsystem with Q48.16
block-heat tracking and cooldown/reclamation (
ART-COOL/ART-REAP). - Word-level ACL — every dictionary entry carries a TTL/allow/mode/pin
access-control record. Strict, TTL, and pinned modes; two console layers
(emergency
ok>and superuserzuse)ok>). Phases 1–7 complete (C infrastructure, FORTH policy layer,zusebootstrap superuser, Isabelle proof stubs, kernel parity); Phase 8 (Ed25519 PKI / thumbdrive challenge-response) is the only item remaining. Measured overhead once active on every check: +0.0054%–+0.0088%, CV = 0.000%, across a 3×3 Latin-square DoE campaign (architecture × seed × 30 replicates) — three orders of magnitude below the measurement floor. - VM Fleet Attractor physics — the L8 Jacquard mode selector now has a real per-VM heat channel into fleet-wide tuning, replacing hardcoded compudynamics constants with a dynamically-inferred rate.
- Kconfig build configuration — every physics/heartbeat/pipelining/ kernel-only tuning knob (~40 total) is now a discoverable, optional Kconfig symbol shared with the hosted VM build. See Quick Start below.
Quick Start
# Build kernel (requires cross-compilation toolchain, or native gcc)
make -f Makefile.starkernel ARCH=amd64
# Run in QEMU with OVMF
make -f Makefile.starkernel qemu
# Other architectures
make -f Makefile.starkernel ARCH=aarch64 qemu
make -f Makefile.starkernel ARCH=riscv64 qemu
Artifacts: build/amd64/kernel/starkernel_loader.efi · build/amd64/kernel/starkernel_kernel.elf
For the hosted VM by itself (Linux, no cross-compiler needed, no bare-metal tooling): see
the separate StarForth repository — LithosAnanke used to be a branch inside that repo,
now it's its own project with its own master.
Build configuration (optional)
Every kernel-only knob (STARFORTH_ENABLE_VM, PARITY_MODE, the shared
physics/heartbeat family, etc.) is an optional Kconfig symbol — a plain
make -f Makefile.starkernel uses the same defaults it always has unless
you opt in:
make -f Makefile.starkernel ARCH=amd64 menuconfig
make -f Makefile.starkernel ARCH=amd64 kernel_amd64_defconfig
Documentation
| System Architecture | Full kernel + VM design |
| HAL Reference | Hardware abstraction layer interfaces |
| Capsule System — M7.1 | Capsule birth protocol design |
| VM Fleet Attractor design log | Tripod/Hermes/Artemis physics + build-system history |
| Getting Started / Kconfig reference | Full symbol reference for both build targets |
| Changelog | Milestone-level history |
| Roadmap | Milestone plan through self-hosting |
License
Starship License 1.0 (SL-1.0) — free for personal, research, and educational use. Commercial use requires a separate agreement. Attribution to R.A. James (Captain Bob) must be preserved in all distributions.
Patent pending. USPTO provisional filed December 2025 — physics-grounded self-adaptive runtime system. This license does not grant patent rights. Licensing inquiries: rajames440@gmail.com
Robert A. James (Captain Bob) · Systems Engineer · Hacking since 1973