Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Extract the messaging vocabulary (arenas, MSG-*/CH-*/MBR-* words) out of capsules/hermes/init.4th into a new shared capsules/common/messaging.4th that Hermes and Artemis each load at birth, giving every VM its own private MSG-ARENA/CH-ARENA instead of only Hermes having one. Hermes stays the owner of the one real, canonical COMMON-CH; Artemis subscribes into it via VM-EXEC at her own birth, and Hermes proactively subscribes Hera (idx 0) since Hera always exists first. Hera does NOT get her own copy: register_child_vm_words()'s own doc comment explains why the STADIUM-* primitives common:messaging.4th depends on are deliberately never registered in her dictionary (keeps her dict_hash off item 4.1's baseline). Confirmed live by loading it into her dictionary anyway first -- every colon-definition referencing an unregistered Stadium primitive was silently dropped (MSG-HEAT@/!, CH-HEAT@/!, MSG-COOL-ALL, MSG-TICK all missing after boot). Reverted that path; she orchestrates via BIRTH/VM-EXEC/VM-CALL instead. Added capsule_vm_registry_get_by_index() (capsule_birth.c/.h) for registry enumeration by birth-order position, and a pump in repl.c's existing idle hook that walks every live VM once per idle beat and VM-EXECs MSG-TICK into each one except Hera's own entry. Verified clean (no UNKNOWN WORD / VM-EXEC errors after birth) on all three architectures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019ZGkimpfyh63EZyRkNbkPD
include/
Public headers for the hosted StarForth VM (src/). Kernel-only headers
live under include/starkernel/.
Core VM
vm.h— theVMstruct and all core types (DictEntry,DictPhysics, stacks, dictionary state); the central header most other files include.vm_api.h— external VM API surface.vm_host.h,vm_debug.h,startup.h,version.h— host integration, debug utilities, startup sequencing, version string.cli.h,repl.h,io.h,log.h— CLI parsing, REPL loop, I/O, logging.word_registry.h— word registration system shared by everysrc/word_source/*.cfile.compudynamics.h— the generic compudynamics module: tuning-word/config lookups (cd_tuning_word(),cd_tuning_vm()) consumed byssm_jacquard.c.
Memory / blocks
memory_management.h,dictionary_management.h— dictionary allocator and search.block_subsystem.h,blkcfg.h,blkio.h,blkio_factory.h— logical→ physical block mapper and pluggable block I/O backends (file/RAM).platform_alloc.h,platform_lock.h,platform_time.h— platform abstraction shims (hosted vs. kernel allocation/locking/timing).
Physics-driven adaptive runtime (7 feedback loops)
physics_runtime.h— main physics coordinator.physics_hotwords_cache.h— Loop #1, execution-heat hot-words cache.physics_metadata.h— per-wordDictPhysicsmetadata tracking.physics_pipelining_metrics.h— Loop #4, word-transition prediction.physics_execution_hooks.h— execution instrumentation hook points.rolling_window_of_truth.h,rolling_window_knobs.h— Loop #2 circular execution-history buffer and its tuning knobs.inference_engine.h— Loops #5/#6, window-width and decay-slope statistical inference.dictionary_heat_optimization.h— Loop #1 heat counters.ssm_jacquard.h— L8 Jacquard steady-state mode selector.doe_metrics.h— Design of Experiments (2^7 factorial) metrics.profiler.h— performance profiling hooks.
Arithmetic / codegen
q48_16.h— Q48.16 deterministic fixed-point arithmetic (used instead of IEEE-754 float specifically to keep cross-architecture behavior bit-identical).math_portable.h— portable math helpers.arch_detect.h,starforth_config.h— architecture detection and the build-flag fallback-default layer (used when a.cfile is compiled by hand withoutmake).vm_asm_opt.h,vm_asm_opt_arm64.h,vm_asm_opt_riscv64.h,vm_inner_interp_asm.h,vm_inner_interp_arm64.h,vm_inner_interp_riscv64.h— per-architecture assembler-optimized inner interpreter (USE_ASM_OPT=1).
See include/starkernel/README.md for the bare-metal kernel headers.