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 **Remaining genuinely open design question, after this pass**: none — every design-level
 question from this list is now closed. What's left is implementation (items 4–9) and
 intentional deferrals (10–11).
+
+### H.12 — Implementation punch list (2026-09-03)
+
+One coding task per item, not a concept per item — each followed by the mandatory
+amd64/aarch64/riscv64 boot acceptance test (this document's only valid acceptance criterion,
+see the top-level CLAUDE.md). Grounded against live code, not the earlier design captures'
+assumptions — two corrections surfaced while building this list, both noted inline below.
+
+**Correction 1**: `stadium_birth_hermes()`/`_artemis()` (§H.11 item 4) don't need writing from
+scratch. `capsule_birth.c`'s generic admission path (~lines 574–602, used for every VM birth
+today) already admits every born VM as a Stadium patron — it's just hardcoded to admit them
+**unpinned** (`vm_patron.flags = 0`, with a comment explicitly noting "unpinned... unlike
+Hera"). The real task is making that existing path pin Hera/Hermes/Artemis specifically,
+leaving ordinary/user VMs unpinned as they already correctly are.
+
+**Correction 2**: `VMIdentity` (`include/starkernel/vm_identity.h`) already exists, fully
+built — `owner_pubkey[32]` + `installed` + `acl_caps` (capability bitmask), the VM-card shape
+from H.4, plus more. `Session.identity` should be a `VMIdentity`, not a new type. Its own doc
+comment confirms Hera/Hermes/Artemis have no installed identity yet ("before D.5's per-VM-
+identity work lands") — wiring real identities into them is part of this refactor's remaining
+work, not new invention.
+
+**Phase 1 — Session struct + pin-authority choke point**
+1. `include/starkernel/session.h`: `Session{vm_id (VMUuid), pinned (int), parent (VMUuid),
+   name (fixed buffer), identity (VMIdentity, embedded)}`. Type only, no logic.
+2. `src/starkernel/vm/session.c`: fixed-size global session-slot array +
+   `session_find(VMUuid)`/`session_register(...)` skeleton. No callers yet.
+3. `session_set_pinned()`/`session_is_pinned()` — the pin-authority choke point (H.2/H.10):
+   writes/reads `Session.pinned`, syncs `STADIUM_FLAG_PIN` on that VM's patron cell.
+4. Rewire `stadium_birth_hera()` to register through `session_register()`/
+   `session_set_pinned()` instead of setting `STADIUM_FLAG_PIN` directly — Hera becomes
+   session zero.
+
+**Phase 2 — Pin Hermes/Artemis (Correction 1 above)**
+5. In `capsule_birth.c`'s existing generic admission block, add a name check ("Hera"/
+   "Hermes"/"Artemis" → pinned, everything else → unpinned) routed through
+   `session_register()`/`session_set_pinned()`.
+6. Confirm (boot-log/diagnostic) Hermes and Artemis now admit pinned; ordinary births still
+   admit unpinned.
+
+**Phase 3 — Session fields wired at birth**
+7. Populate `Session.parent` from the birthing VM's `stadium_vm_id`.
+8. Populate `Session.name` from the capsule's own name string (already available at this
+   point in `capsule_birth.c`).
+9. Confirm `Session.identity` defaults to `installed=0` correctly (no behavior change
+   expected yet).
+
+**Phase 4 — Creator-ceiling enforcement (H.3, birth-time snapshot)**
+10. `dictionary_snapshot_acl_from_parent(child, parent)`: for each word also present in the
+    parent's dictionary, copy `acl_allow`/`acl_mode`/`acl_pinned`/`acl_ttl` into the child's
+    matching entry.
+11. Call it once, right after a child's dictionary finishes loading in `capsule_birth.c`.
+
+**Phase 5 — `BMAPFMT` (§F.4/§H.6, independent, can run any time)**
+12. Edit `blk_meta_t` in `include/block_subsystem.h`: replace the old 4 ownership fields with
+    `owner_fp[8]`/`acl_allow`/`acl_ttl` (u32)/`acl_reserved[3]`/`reserved_future`. Verify
+    size/offsets with `offsetof`/`sizeof`, not by hand (see the `blk_volume_meta_t` padding-bug
+    lesson, [[project_phase8_milestone6_complete]]).
+13. Define the three `flags` bit constants (`CLAIMED`=0/`MIGRATING`=1/`STALE`=2).
+14. Add C get/set accessors for the new fields in `block_subsystem.c`.
+15. Add FORTH wrappers (`BLK-ACL-ALLOW@`/`!`, `BLK-ACL-TTL@`/`!`, `BLK-OWNER@`).
+16. Add a new policy capsule (mirroring `ACL.4th`) with a real fast-deny check on top — no
+    stub, per this project's standing "no stubs or TODOs, ever" rule (§C).
+
+**Phase 6 — Zuse eligibility list (H.5)**
+17. Extend the metadata-fence record format with a new growable `owner_pubkey[32]`-list
+    record type.
+18. Implement read/add/membership-check functions in C.
+19. Add a Zuse-only FORTH word to add an entry, gated by `zuse_session`.
+
+**Phase 7 — Message card gate + `ELEVATE-REQUEST` (H.8)**
+20. Add the initiator-only ACL gate at `CH-REQUEST`'s entry point (default-permissive
+    baseline, real hook point established).
+21. Define `ELEVATE-REQUEST` and a minimal real handler checking the eligibility list,
+    granting via `ACL-ALLOW!`/`ACL-TTL!` on match.
+22. Add the FORTH entrypoint a session actually calls to send one.
+
+**Excluded, per H.11's deferred items 10–11**: VM card multi-owner support, live-console
+`sudo`-style elevation, pre-signed capability tickets.