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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Opus 5 7597a9ccd4 Add Artemis compudynamics implementation plan; add stress campaign fixture
The 30-replicate Artemis surface-stress campaign ran across all three
architectures: 30 reps x 50 trials x 3 arches = 4500 trials, zero failures.
The block_words.c stale-pointer cache-aliasing fix holds at scale.

Adds ART-STRESS-CAMPAIGN (block 4174) plus ART-STRESS-REP rep-tagging in
the CSV header/summary emitters, so a multi-replicate run is distinguishable
in the serial log. Campaign auto-invoke is left enabled in block 4170 for
now; Makefile.starkernel's QEMU boot deadlines stay at 12h to accommodate
long-running experiments.

Adds docs/working/architecture/ARTEMIS-COMPUDYNAMICS-IMPLEMENTATION-PLAN-20260802.md,
which documents the real gap this campaign exposed: block heat and message
heat do not decay at all. ART-TICK has zero call sites anywhere in the tree,
and HERMES-TICK has zero C call sites -- every caller is Hera poking it by
hand. BLK-HEAT@/MSG-HEAT@ read a number nothing ages, so blocks never reap
by cooling and message TTL never expires on its own.

The plan mirrors word-level physics as the reference model: lazy decay at
each access point against vm->heartbeat.tick_count, plus a bounded
background sweep with a resumable cursor (the existing answer to "sweeping
22,998 blocks per tick is too expensive"). Phase 1 Artemis, Phase 2 Hermes,
Phase 3 K participation deferred behind the Logical BAM.

The plan's preamble also records a wrong turn taken while investigating:
chasing VM-fleet heat instead of block heat, and building synthetic
Hera-driven VM-EXEC calls to force a physics reading -- which TRIPOD.md
prohibits outright. That work was reverted; the record is kept so it isn't
repeated.

Status: plan approved in shape, NOT final and NOT started. Six open
questions need answers and further design discussion is pending.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-02 21:49:16 -04:00
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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. See formal/CLAUDE.md for 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.md and lithosananke/M7.1.md.
  • Word-level ACL system — Phase 6 complete on master; Phase 7 (LithosAnanke parity) is the next step. See 03-architecture/word-acl/README.md.
  • Tripod VMs — Hera (governor), Hermes (messenger), Artemis (memory/block storage). See 03-architecture/tripod/README.md and birthing/.

Contributing

  • Place new material in working/ first; promote to formal/ only when it's ready to be cited (see formal/CLAUDE.md for promotion criteria).
  • Never touch patent/, formal/patent/, formal/scraps/legal/, or working/legal/ without Bob's explicit instruction.
  • Add a README.md to any new category-level subdirectory, following the format used throughout this tree: orientation paragraph + bullet list of real files with one-line descriptions.