Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Ran the amd64 kernel acceptance leg 5 times back to back as the punch list's action item asked. dict_hash was byte-identical across every run for every VM (Artemis, both Hermes instances, Hera/MAMA_INIT), and matched aarch64/riscv64 exactly each time. Not jitter, and not stable-but-different either. The underlying mechanism the hypothesis pointed at is still real and unchanged (capsule_dict_hash_hook() still folds execution_heat into the hash; amd64 still runs its timer in RELATIVE mode under this hypervisor) — but PARITY:MAMA_INIT and the child-VM PARITY:BIRTH lines all print before the heartbeat starts, and heat only decays on heartbeat ticks, so there's no window for the timer's non-determinism to reach execution_heat before any of these hashes get computed. Most likely the original 2026-07-24 observation was a one-off (loaded host machine, coincidental timing), not a real gap. No code change. No amendment to CLAUDE.md's acceptance criteria needed — "identical dict_hash across all three architectures" holds up under repeated testing. Closure note added to the punch list; the 5 verification runs' logs and DoE CSVs are kept as the supporting evidence. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
StarForth / LithosAnanke Documentation
This is the lithosananke branch: the bare-metal StarKernel side of the project
(contrast master, which is the hosted-VM-only side). Documentation follows the
two-tier model described in docs/CLAUDE.md: formal/ is the polished,
citable LaTeX tier; working/ is living design notes and drafts that feed it.
Everything else in this directory is branch- or subsystem-specific material that
doesn't fit either tier.
Layout
- formal/ — Three-volume LaTeX documentation set (research volumes,
practitioner books, standalone reports) plus the
scraps/fragment library it's assembled from. Audience: patent counsel, SSRN reviewers, licensees, hobbyists with hardware in hand. Seeformal/CLAUDE.mdfor authoring conventions. - working/ — Living documents: architecture design notes, DoE
experiment logs, hardware/platform notes, draft specs, academic-paper source
material, and an archive of superseded docs. Source material for
formal/. - 03-architecture/ — Tripod VM architecture constraints (Hera/Hermes/Artemis) and the word-level ACL system design.
- lithosananke/ — LithosAnanke kernel branch documentation: milestone roadmap, system architecture, HAL reference, kernel command-line argument design, and the amd64 APIC-timer ISR postmortem.
- birthing/ — VM birthing plan and status for the Hera-spawns- Hermes/Artemis constellation, plus three-architecture QEMU acceptance logs.
- patent/ — Provisional patent application source. Legal hold — ask Bob before touching anything in this directory.
- api/ — Generated Doxygen tag file and warnings log (gitignored; not part of the tracked doc tree).
- pptx/ — Elevator-pitch and deep-dive slide decks for different audiences (technical, non-technical, academic, PhD-level).
Current Active Work
- LithosAnanke M7/M7.1 — VM parity validation and init capsule architecture.
See
lithosananke/README.mdandlithosananke/M7.1.md. - Word-level ACL system — Phase 6 complete on
master; Phase 7 (LithosAnanke parity) is the next step. See03-architecture/word-acl/README.md. - Tripod VMs — Hera (governor), Hermes (messenger), Artemis (memory/block
storage). See
03-architecture/tripod/README.mdandbirthing/.
Contributing
- Place new material in
working/first; promote toformal/only when it's ready to be cited (seeformal/CLAUDE.mdfor promotion criteria). - Never touch
patent/,formal/patent/,formal/scraps/legal/, orworking/legal/without Bob's explicit instruction. - Add a
README.mdto any new category-level subdirectory, following the format used throughout this tree: orientation paragraph + bullet list of real files with one-line descriptions.