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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 f0b0c6d683 Checkpoint: paired ACL-TTL overhead measurement, 3/18 cells
In-progress paired ACL-enabled/disabled campaign (18 cells: 3 seeds x 3
ISAs x 2 ACL states, randomized order, one continuous sitting per
Section O's naming/scoping ruling -- calling this "ACL-TTL overhead",
not "ACL-RWT", since the RWT mechanism no longer exists in the codebase).

Real finding along the way, not blocking: capsules/zuse.4th's
ACL-ZUSE-BOOT places its own self-pin inside its own colon-definition
body instead of after the closing ";", causing a genuine forward-
reference failure at capsule-load time. Confirmed via live VM state
query (EXEC's ACL-MODE@/ACL-PINNED? and DOE-WORK's ACL-MODE@) that this
does NOT affect the core ACL enforcement mechanism itself --
ACL-INIT-PRIMITIVES correctly stamps the whole dictionary, ACL-BOOT
correctly pins EXEC/BYE to STRICT -- so it doesn't invalidate this
measurement. Not fixed, flagged only.

3 cells complete and verified (480/480 rows, 16/16 cfg coverage, zero
errors each): riscv64/12345 disabled+enabled, aarch64/13579 disabled.
Cell 3's timing is mtime-based/approximate rather than precise
wall-clock -- a multi-hour session gap landed inside its measurement
window, contaminating the direct stopwatch reading; the log file's own
last-write mtime is used as a corrected proxy instead, noted as such in
timing.csv.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 18:02:59 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 900fa71d3a FABRIC-2.md: record the corrected-shuffle campaign/report, and a real
ACL-RWT naming/dead-code finding found while scoping the next step

Section O: points to the 127-page deep-dive report and corrected
dataset already committed (dbe4b67, cf5b08f), records the headline
determinism findings, and documents a real finding surfaced while
looking at ACL's current state before implementing a paired
ACL-enabled/disabled measurement -- the "ACL-RWT" name traces to a
Rolling Window of Truth TTL mechanism that ACL.4th's own comments
record as dead code from the day it was written (removed 2026-07-08,
never reachable by the C hot path). The original June 2026 campaign
predates that removal by three weeks, raising a real historical-
accuracy question about what its own overhead numbers measured -- not
settled here, just flagged. Ruled: future paired measurements use an
accurate name ("ACL-TTL overhead") since RWT no longer exists in the
codebase at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 13:24:51 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 cf5b08fb65 Stadium relaunch: full 127-page deep-dive report -- per-cell, per-ISA,
every factor interaction, and a raw-data appendix

Expanded the campaign-mechanism validation report from a condensed
6-page summary into the full depth Captain Bob asked for: analyze all 9
cells as a conglomerate Latin square, then dive into each cell's own
data, then cover every within-ISA and cross-factor interaction
explicitly rather than averaging it away.

Report structure (127 pages, compiled clean, no undefined references):
- Front matter: context, methodology, the SWAP-MTX bug narrative
  (console-interleaving fix + the Fisher-Yates correctness bug and its
  fix, both already committed separately)
- Layer 1: aggregate 3x3 Latin square (heatmap, invariant-metrics table)
- Per-Cell Deep Dive (9 sections): cfg-level distribution, summary
  table, and a rep-order execution-trajectory chart per cell -- the
  trajectory charts are what actually visualize the order-dependence
  finding rather than just stating it
- Per-ISA Deep Dive (3 sections): within-architecture seed comparison
  (violin plots, Kruskal-Wallis, per-factor main effects)
- Factor Interactions (6 sections, every pairwise combination of the 4
  L8 binary factors): both infer_dec_q and early_exit interaction plots
  faceted by architecture, plus the three-way
  factor x factor x architecture significance test
- Per-Factor Response (4 sections): linear response by architecture,
  with an explicit note that a true quadratic term isn't identifiable
  from this 2-level factorial design
- Appendix: full run_id-ordered raw data, all 4,320 rows across all 9
  cells, as the primary-source backing for every statistic above

Generated programmatically (analyse_stadium_relaunch_fixed.R for the
aggregate layer, generate_stadium_deepdive.R for the per-cell/per-ISA/
interaction/appendix layers) rather than hand-authored, since content at
this scale needs to be data-driven to stay honest.

Also includes analyse_stadium_relaunch.R, the earlier script built
against the pre-fix (buggy-shuffle) dataset -- superseded but kept for
the record, matching how the underlying data commits were handled.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 13:10:01 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 dbe4b671a1 Re-run ACL-RWT relaunch campaign against the fixed SWAP-MTX shuffle
Full 9-cell campaign re-run from scratch (fresh clean build per cell,
fully randomized order, one continuous sitting) using the corrected
Fisher-Yates shuffle. All 9 cells now produce a genuinely valid uniform
permutation: 480/480 rows, all 16 cfg values represented exactly 30 times
each, zero errors -- across all three architectures and all three seeds.

The previous relaunch campaign (experiments/bare_metal/runs/
acl-rwt-20260820/, committed 79d160c) ran against the buggy shuffle and
is superseded by this one for any analysis; kept as-is per policy
(audit artifacts, not deleted), not treated as the canonical dataset.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 12:08:48 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 7e2fd9f044 Fix SWAP-MTX: Fisher-Yates shuffle was never actually shuffling correctly
Found while building the analysis report for the ACL-RWT relaunch
campaign: cfg=0 was missing from run coverage for 2 of 3 seeds, reproduced
identically across all three architectures. Root-caused rather than
worked around, per Captain Bob's "this is worrisome."

SWAP-MTX (capsules/doe.4th Block 2104) never actually swapped two
RUN-MATRIX cells -- it performed a lossy one-way copy (second MATRIX!
call mis-targeted mat[i] again instead of mat[j]). Confirmed by direct
empirical test on the hosted build: INIT-MATRIX gives mat[0]=0, mat[5]=5;
after 0 5 SWAP-MTX, mat[0]=0 (unchanged, should be 5) and mat[5]=0
(correct), with the original value 5 permanently destroyed. Every
Fisher-Yates shuffle this mechanism has ever run silently duplicated some
values and dropped others -- not a true permutation. Not new, not
introduced by item 4.6/Stadium work; predates this session.

Fixed with explicit temp variables (SW-I/SW-J/SW-VI/SW-VJ), trivially
verifiable by inspection over clever stack juggling. Verified on the
hosted build for all three seeds used by the relaunch campaign: each now
produces all 16 cfg values exactly 30 times, run_id 0-479 fully distinct.
Three-arch QEMU acceptance clean: 1012/0/0 POST on all three, identical
dict_hash (expected -- doe.4th isn't C-registered or auto-loaded at
boot). BLOCK_MAP.md correctly shows only doe.4th's own hash changed.

Also includes the R analysis/chart pipeline (analyse_stadium_relaunch.R)
built for the relaunch campaign report, and the three acceptance boot
logs.

Retroactive caveat: the relaunch campaign's own run-matrix coverage
(experiments/bare_metal/runs/acl-rwt-20260820/) is not a valid uniform
permutation, having run against the buggy shuffle. Whether to re-run it
against the fix is a separate call, not made here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 10:56:12 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 79d160c1ca FABRIC-2.md: ACL-RWT-style 3x3 Latin square re-run on Stadium substrate (item 5.1/F.3)
Found and fixed a real bug before any campaign work could start: EXEC-DOE's
own CSV output was almost entirely lost to console interleaving with the
routine per-tick heartbeat export -- same bug class as Section L's PLOT
case. Fix: HB-OFF immediately before EXEC-DOE, HB-ON after DOE: complete.
Confirmed HB-ON-first (the reverse order) does NOT fix it -- tested
directly, row loss recurred identically.

Also found: L8-DOE/WL-HI/WL-LO (the mechanism bare_metal/README.md
describes as auto-run) don't exist anywhere in capsules/, and Makefile.
starkernel's DOE_SEED variable is declared but never referenced -- both
vestigial, matching Section K's earlier staleness finding.

Built QEMU-serial-socket injection tooling (socat) to drive EXEC-DOE
interactively after boot, since it requires live REPL input, not just
observation. Two real defects found and fixed in that tooling itself: a
log-discovery race (self-excluding the very log it needed to find,
causing two separate stuck-injector incidents, one overnight) and an
unredirected background launch that deadlocked socat on a full stdout
pipe. Both fixed by having the orchestrator pass exact log/socket paths
directly and always launching through the harness's tracked-background
mechanism.

First full campaign attempt ran all 9 cells as three ISA-blocked loops,
reusing one build per architecture -- caught mid-run: this confounds ISA
with time/session-order, invalidating the Latin square design. Discarded
(logs kept as audit artifacts, not treated as valid data) and re-run
clean: all 9 (arch, seed) cells in fully randomized order, fresh clean
rebuild before every single cell, one continuous sitting. Result:
4,320/4,320 rows captured, zero VM errors anywhere.

This validates the campaign mechanism runs cleanly and reproducibly under
the post-4.6 Stadium substrate -- satisfies item 5.1's own concern that a
green POST suite isn't evidence determinism holds post-migration. It does
NOT produce an ACL-RWT overhead number: ACL.4th is not self-activated in
this repo's default init.4th, so these 9 cells ran with ACL inactive.
Reproducing the original +0.0054%-+0.0088% measurement needs a paired
ACL-enabled/disabled run using this now-validated mechanism -- scoped,
not attempted here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 09:16:18 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 ea5d2c7ceb FABRIC-2.md: riscv64 re-verified 30/30 PASS for item 4.6's Artemis stress campaign
Closes the last open item in Section H. amd64 and aarch64 were already
confirmed post-quota-grant-fix; riscv64 was pending. Temporarily re-enabled
ART-STRESS-CAMPAIGN (block 4170, disabled since Section L) for this one
headless run, confirmed 30/30 reps / 1500/1500 trials passed with a clean
CAMPAIGN-DONE, then reverted the capsule back to its committed disabled
state (byte-identical to HEAD, mkcapsule --lint clean).

Two SUMMARY lines (reps 4, 15) printed visually garbled from concurrent
[HADES][DOE] console writes -- confirmed cosmetic only by grepping the full
log for refused (result=0) trials: zero matches across all 1500.

Also includes: the two DoE CSV exports and serial logs from this session's
riscv64 runs (audit artifacts per repo convention), and the resulting
Artemis disk image state from real block writes during the stress test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 11:26:23 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 eaf3f8c9ae FABRIC-2.md: F.3 punch list -- rule to wait for Artemis before DoE/ACL-RWT re-measurement
Captain Bob went with the recommended path rather than measuring now: item
5.1 + ACL-RWT overhead re-measurement stays deferred until Artemis lands,
since Artemis's own storage/timing work would immediately perturb whatever
baseline gets captured today. The other F.3 item (4.4s -> 1.11 -> 4.3 ->
S17.4 chain) is unchanged -- still genuinely blocked on ACL Phase 8, no
ruling needed there.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 09:39:17 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 413b5a9bbf Verify turtle.4th rendering live, revert overdue ART-STRESS-CAMPAIGN disable
Disabled capsules/artemis/init.4th block 4170's ART-STRESS-CAMPAIGN -- its
own comment already said to revert to disabled once the K-invariant/
heartbeat verification run (item 4.6, closed earlier this session) was
done. This was the actual ~25-30 minute wall blocking interactive REPL
access, unrelated to any DoE mechanism.

Verified capsules/turtle.4th and capsules/sdk.4th live in a gtk-display
QEMU session: a red hexagon (6 100 POLYGON) and a green self-intersecting
star (100 STAR) both render with correct geometry and color. Screenshot in
evidence/amd64/.

Two real obstacles found and worked around along the way: CS's full-
framebuffer PLOT loop is far slower under TCG than previously documented
(closer to 20+ minutes than "slow"), and the kernel's heartbeat CSV logging
draws to the same console surface PLOT writes pixels to, overwriting
drawings within a fraction of a second unless silenced first with the
existing HB-OFF word. Both HOWTOs updated to record this.

Re-verified full three-arch acceptance boot (POST, DoE, parity) with the
ART-STRESS-CAMPAIGN change: 1012/0/0 and matching dict_hash on all three,
identical to the pre-change baseline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 07:57:43 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 d1547ecdae Add capsules/sdk.4th: SDK v1.9.0 vocabulary + FENCE over the cookbook capsules
Loads turtle.4th and doe.4th, defines SDK-VERSION/SDK-HELP into an SDK
vocabulary, then calls FENCE once everything is loaded -- protecting the
base wordset and both cookbook capsules from FORGET. Kernel-only (EXEC
doesn't exist hosted), REPL-invoked via S" sdk.4th" EXEC, not part of
init.4th's boot sequence.

Verified before writing the capsule, not assumed: VOCABULARY/DEFINITIONS
does not actually scope word visibility in this interpreter -- vm_find_word
is a flat dictionary scan that never consults CONTEXT/CURRENT. Documented
plainly in the HOWTO so this isn't mistaken for namespace isolation later.

Block range 5109-5115 -- discovered along the way that user-block space is
capped at [2048, 5120) by mkcapsule, tighter than expected.

Verified: mkcapsule --lint clean, hosted-build trace runs SDK-HELP with
zero attributable VM errors, zero build warnings and identical 1012/0/0
POST results with matching dict_hash on all three kernel architectures.

HOWTO: docs/working/architecture/SDK-HOWTO-20260819.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 06:10:51 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 4e7dcdf889 Add FENCE word (SDK v1.9.0 scoping); fix severe pre-existing FORGET use-after-free
FENCE ( -- ) exposes the dict_fence_latest/dict_fence_here state FORGET
already honored internally, letting callers (e.g. a future SDK capsule)
raise the boundary after loading their own content -- no new VM fields,
no policy logic beyond exposing existing state.

Writing a direct test for it surfaced a real, severe, pre-existing bug in
FORGET's relink logic, unrelated to FENCE itself and reproducible with the
original boot-time fence alone:

- Forgetting the single newest word incorrectly destroyed every other word
  back to the fence too, not just the target.
- Forgetting an older word (correctly cascading to remove newer words too,
  per FORTH-79 semantics) crashed with SIGSEGV.

Root cause: the relink code's target_prev pointer was, by construction,
always inside the range the preceding loop had just freed whenever target
wasn't vm->latest -- so writing through it was a use-after-free every time
that branch executed. Fixed by removing the target_prev tracking and both
branches entirely; vm->latest unconditionally becomes target_next (target's
own captured, still-valid link) after the free loop, correct in every case.

Added a FENCE test suite to dictionary_manipulation_words_test.c (Module 14)
including the exact regression case (forgetting the newest word must not
disturb an older one). Verified zero warnings and identical POST/dict_hash
results across all three kernel architectures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 05:57:18 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 6d8b48f100 FABRIC-2.md: SDK v1.9.0 scoping ruling -- FENCE already exists, VOCABULARY already exists
No code in this commit. Two findings that reframe the scope: dict_fence_latest/
dict_fence_here already exist on VM and FORGET already honors them correctly --
set once at bootstrap, right after the base wordset registers, never exposed to
FORTH. "A proper FENCE" is exposing existing state via one new word (FENCE ( -- )),
not designing a new mechanism. VOCABULARY/DEFINITIONS/CONTEXT/ORDER are already
registered and POST-tested but have never been used in any real capsule content --
an SDK capsule would be the first production use.

Five open questions named but not decided: SDK word inventory, load model
(autoload/opt-in/REPL-only), kernel-only-vs-portable (EXEC is kernel-only, so a
capsule that EXECs the cookbook capsules can't claim hosted portability), the
1.5.4 -> 1.9.0 version jump, and turtle.4th's still-unconfirmed rendering if it
ships as an SDK demo.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 05:26:48 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 d0a76420a5 Add DoE library HOWTO (cookbook entry 2), flag stale L8-DOE claims in bare_metal/README.md
Documents capsules/doe.4th's word-level DOE/EXEC-DOE entry points, CSV
format, and a verified-not-fixed caveat: the rep column doesn't track
actual repetition count when n-reps differs from the file's fixed N-REPS=30
constant (cfg is unaffected, only rep is misleading -- use run_id instead).

Also surfaces, but does not fix, a real staleness finding in
experiments/bare_metal/README.md: its documented L8-DOE/WL-HI/WL-LO
entry point and workload-dispatch mechanism does not exist anywhere in the
current capsule set. What "DoE" actually names today is three separate
mechanisms (doe.4th's word-level DOE, doe-campaign.4th's fleet-touch
campaigns, and artemis/init.4th's auto-run ART-STRESS-CAMPAIGN) -- this
HOWTO documents only the first, per explicit scope decision.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 05:11:12 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 e40134da0d Add capsules/turtle.4th, a limited LOGO-style turtle graphics demo capsule
First entry in the "cookbook" track: a demo capsule plus HOWTO, per the
sequencing laid out after the POST-coverage sweep. Built entirely in FORTH
on top of existing primitives -- fabric.4th's LINE (raster Bresenham) and
Q.SIN/Q.COS (Q48.16 trig), plus PLOT/FB-WIDTH/FB-HEIGHT -- no new C words.

FORWARD/BACK/LEFT/RIGHT/PENUP/PENDOWN/HOME/SETXY/SETHEADING/SETCOLOR give
the classic turtle model; POLYGON and STAR compose FORWARD+turn into simple
demo shapes; TURTLE-DEMO is a one-call visual smoke test. Not wired into
init.4th -- REPL-invoked only, matching the original idea's own scope.

Verified: mkcapsule --lint clean, hosted-build logic trace shows zero VM
errors and correct stack balance through the whole vocabulary, zero build
warnings and capsule loads cleanly on all three kernel architectures.
Visual pixel-level confirmation not yet done (needs an interactive
gtk-display session or driving past the ~25-30 min DoE-before-REPL wall),
documented as an open item in the HOWTO.

HOWTO: docs/working/architecture/TURTLE-GRAPHICS-HOWTO-20260819.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 01:50:54 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 abb858a300 Add POST coverage for physics-freeze words (Module 27), fix two real bugs found in the process
Cluster 4 of the POST-coverage sweep: physics_freeze_words_test.c covers the 6
words proof/StarForth_Physics_Freeze_Words.thy actually gives real lemmas for
(FREEZE-WORD, UNFREEZE-WORD, FROZEN?, HEAT!, HEAT@, DECAY-RATE@), correcting
an earlier fork summary's wrong "5 words" scope.

Writing the tests surfaced two independent, pre-existing bugs in
physics_freeze_words.c, both now fixed:

- Every address-taking word cast the VM's caddr directly to a host pointer
  instead of resolving it through vm_ptr() -- caddr is an offset into
  vm->memory, not a host pointer. Fixed in all 9 call sites (the 5 in-scope
  words plus SHOW-HEAT, which shares the identical pattern).
- Every underflow check used dsp < N (item count) instead of dsp < N-1, since
  this VM's dsp is a 0-indexed top-of-stack pointer. Fixed in all 6 checks.

Together these meant every word in this file taking a stack-supplied name has
been broken for any real caller since the file was written. Verified zero
build warnings and a clean three-arch QEMU boot (amd64/aarch64/riscv64), 1009
passed / 0 failed / 0 errors identically on all three, dict_hash matching
across arches.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 00:12:09 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 825ab078f1 POST coverage cluster 3/4: inference-engine accessors (proof-covered, previously untested)
New module (inference_words_test.c, Module 26) covers exactly the 8
words proof/COVERAGE.md marks proof-covered in inference_words.c (out
of 20 registered): the 5 output accessors (INFER-WINDOW@/DECAY@/
VARIANCE@/FIT@/EARLY-EXIT@), INFER-RUN (populates what they read), and
Q.VARIANCE/INFER-DECAY-SLOPE/INFER-WINDOW-WIDTH (array-based
primitives, using HERE as multi-cell scratch memory). Deliberately not
the L8 Jacquard or Bayesian-posterior words in the same file -- not
proof-covered, out of this cluster's scope.

Caught and fixed a contract-selection mistake before booting: copied
CONTRACT_PHYSICS_TRANSPARENT from the Q48.16 cluster without checking
whether it fit. It doesn't -- these words are specifically about
reading physics state (dictionary heat, rolling window), so asserting
A4' transparency on them would test an invariant they deliberately
don't have. Switched to CONTRACT_NONE with an explanatory comment.

Boot-verified: zero warnings, all 9 suite entries pass, FINAL TEST
SUMMARY 1031->1040 total / 993->1002 passed (+9 exactly), 0 failed,
contract checks (A4'/A1) still report "all passed" -- confirms the
CONTRACT_NONE fix actually avoided the violation, not just silenced it.

Cluster 4 of 4 (final one) left: physics freeze/diagnostic, 5 words.
Full writeup in FABRIC-2.md Section J.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 23:34:59 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 7100523656 POST coverage cluster 2/4: Q48.16 math primitives (proof-covered, previously untested)
New module (q48_words_test.c, Module 25 -- matches word_registry.c's own
existing numbering for this file's registration) covers all 23 words in
q48_words.c: no test file existed for this file at all before. Standard
WordTestSuite/TestCase tabular format, unlike ACL's hand-rolled style --
these are pure stateless functions, a natural fit. 28 TestCase entries;
values built via Q.FROM-INT/Q.1/Q.0, read back via Q.TO-INT for readable
log output.

Verified q48_16.h's q48_to_u64() sign-extends through a signed int64_t
intermediate before writing the Q.NEG/Q.ABS tests, rather than assuming
negative round-trip works.

Boot-verified: zero build warnings, all 23 words pass individually,
FINAL TEST SUMMARY 1003->1031 total / 965->993 passed (+28 exactly),
0 failed, 0 errors. Noted (pre-existing, not fixed): print_module_summary()
is called with hardcoded (name,0,0,0,0) across every WordTestSuite module
in the tree, including this new one -- decorative, always zero; the real
counts live in each word's own per-suite line and the global summary.

Cluster 3 of 4 in the POST-coverage sequence (code sweeps -> HOL green ->
POST coverage, one proof-covered cluster at a time). Two clusters left:
inference-engine accessors, physics freeze/diagnostic. Full writeup in
FABRIC-2.md Section J.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 23:30:46 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 b2918fd0b2 POST coverage cluster 1/4: ACL accessors (proof-covered, previously untested)
Adds interpreter-level POST coverage for six ACL read accessors
(ACL-MODE@/PINNED?/TTL@/ALLOW@/HEAT@/WORD-ID), ACL-INHERIT as an
interpreted word (not just its underlying C function, already tested),
and ACL-INIT-PRIMITIVES -- all proof-covered per proof/COVERAGE.md but
never exercised via vm_interpret() before. Follows acl_words_test.c's
existing hand-rolled ACL_ASSERT style, not the WordTestSuite table
format the rest of the tree uses.

First boot caught a real bug in the new test itself (2/29 assertions
failed): ACL-INHERIT's C implementation pops dst before src, the test
pushed them backwards. Fixed the test, not the word -- ACL-INHERIT's
own dispatch was correct throughout. Re-verified: 29/29 pass, zero
build warnings. Both the failing and fixed boot logs kept as evidence.

Part of the agreed sequence (code sweeps -> HOL green -> POST coverage,
one proof-covered cluster at a time). Three more clusters queued:
Q48.16 math primitives, inference-engine accessors, physics
freeze/diagnostic words. Full writeup in FABRIC-2.md Section J.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 23:15:32 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 e535346504 FABRIC-2.md: record verified clean Isabelle/HOL rebuild (52 theories, genuinely green)
Ran isabelle build -c (clean, forces fresh rebuild bypassing any cached
heap) for real, per the agreed sequencing (code sweeps -> HOL green ->
POST coverage). All 52 theories rebuilt from scratch in 42s, zero
errors/failures/sorry/oops anywhere in the log -- upgrades the earlier
entry's static-inspection-only inference to an actual verified result.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 22:50:03 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 1a2ec565e8 Zero C-compiler warnings on all three architectures; fix real restore_vm_state() bug
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>
2026-08-18 22:31:57 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 bf59c4916e Fix systemic -Wmissing-field-initializers across src/test_runner/modules/ (3010 -> 0)
TestCase gained a trailing `contract` field (WordContract) at some point
after all 20 test-module files' compound literals were written -- every
single TestCase/WordTestSuite initializer in the tree (sentinels, real
entries, and per-suite entries) omitted it, producing ~3010 warnings on
every build. CLAUDE.md's own documentation claimed this was isolated to
one file (vocabulary_words_test.c); a full audit found it systemic
across all 20 files.

Fixed mechanically: added the missing `{0}` trailing initializer
everywhere. Semantically a no-op -- C99 already zero-fills unlisted
trailing struct fields, so this only silences the diagnostic, changes
no behavior. Verified: all three architectures (amd64/aarch64/riscv64)
build clean, remaining warning count unchanged (30, matching the other
three known -Wno-error-exempted classes: unused-parameter, sign-compare,
plus mkcapsule.c's stringop-truncation which was never actually gated
by this policy -- it's a separate host tool with no -Werror at all).

.claude/CLAUDE.md corrected to describe the actual -Wno-error= exemption
list (four classes, not "build with -Wall -Werror" unconditionally) and
the real current warning inventory.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 21:43:30 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 4270cf23f1 docs: fix stale proof-suite claims in FABRIC-2.md; correct docs/CLAUDE.md's Makefile pointer
FABRIC-2.md item 5.2: both lemmas described as deliberately oops-flagged
(ROLL semantics, pipeline pm_wf invariant) were actually resolved
2026-08-13, same day, but FABRIC-2.md was never updated to match --
found during a docs-tree maintainability sweep. Corrected both, and
flagged a real untracked finding the pipeline fix surfaced: the Isabelle
model's accuracy num/den fraction pair doesn't correspond to the real
PipelineGlobalMetrics C struct at all. Also reconciled the theory-count
drift (53/54 mid-sweep numbers vs. the actual current 52, matching
proof/COVERAGE.md; proof/FINDINGS.md's own stale "53" flagged but not
fixed, out of this pass's scope).

docs/CLAUDE.md described a docs/Makefile with docs-formal/docs-working/
docs-index/docs-audit targets that doesn't exist anywhere in the tree.
The real build is docs/formal/Makefile with a completely different
target set (vol1/vol2/vol3/books/standalone/doxygen/clean) -- corrected
to match, and noted docs/INDEX.md has no automation and goes stale
between manual triage passes.

doxygen installed on this machine (was missing entirely, blocking the
API-reference build target).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 21:05:21 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 5b248343b0 FABRIC-2.md: record item 4.6's effort number, per §10
Recorded in item 4.6's own closure entry in FABRIC-2.md, not literally
under FABRIC.md's §10 -- matches how item 4.2's effort number actually
lived (inside that item's own punch-list entry), and respects
FABRIC.md's own closed/no-further-edits rule. Same format as item 4.2's
report: session time, lines changed split FORTH vs. C surface, file
count.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 20:42:21 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 719cf811f4 FABRIC-2.md: close item 4.6, pointing to Section H's full writeup
Item 4.6 (Artemis Stadium migration) was still marked open despite its
own "Done when" criteria all being met by today's work: Stadium-admission
boundary shipped, FM-* untouched, ART-STRESS-CAMPAIGN 30/30 on all three
arches, POST clean, three-arch boot logs, ARTEMIS-K conservation holding.
Marked closed with a pointer to Section H; noted the one unverified
criterion (the §10 effort-number bookkeeping step) rather than silently
claiming it was done.

Found during a full sweep of FABRIC-2.md for the same tracking-drift
class that forced FABRIC.md's closure (§12 Q5, fixed in the prior
commit) -- this was the other real instance found.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 20:36:00 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 316fa93842 FABRIC-2.md: fix stale §12 Q5 tracking — checkbox and punch-list drift
Found while checking for the same scattered-punch-list problem that
forced FABRIC.md's closure: §12 Q5 was actually closed 2026-08-15 (the
STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK flat-4000-divisor fix), but Section D's checkbox
was never flipped to [x], and Section F.3's punch list still re-listed
it as an open question. Fixed both; corrected the F.2/F.3 "net result"
summary to match.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 20:31:53 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 60907503f9 docs: record item 4.6 fix, aarch64 BYE crash fix, and DoE campaign in CHANGELOG/ROADMAP
CHANGELOG.md: new 2026-08-18 entry for today's work, plus a post-split
note explaining the branch-tag convention no longer applies (this repo
is now LithosAnanke-only, master as sole production line).

docs/lithosananke/ROADMAP.md: M7.1 section predates all the real
Tripod/Stadium/ACL work and was silently stale -- added a dated
redirect to FABRIC.md/FABRIC-2.md (matching the doc's own existing
pattern for the M8 section) rather than rewriting the whole section.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 20:27:05 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 efcc2d8c90 Full three-arch DoE campaign, post-fix — amd64/aarch64/riscv64 all clean
Standard L8-DOE acceptance run on all three architectures following the
item 4.6 quota-ordering fix and aarch64 SMC->HVC BYE-crash fix. All
three: 30/30 Artemis stress-campaign reps PASS, clean BYE exit (no
exception), full DoE CSV captured (~78-79k rows each).

riscv64's first attempt this session was killed mid-run by an
unexplained external SIGTERM (see memory note
project_unexplained_qemu_sigterm_20260818, cause not yet identified);
relaunched and completed clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 20:24:53 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 020005cad3 Regression-check amd64 and riscv64 after aarch64 SMC->HVC fix
Confirms no regressions: 30/30 Artemis stress-campaign reps PASS and
clean BYE exit (no exception) on both architectures. arch.c's SMC->HVC
change was aarch64-only, as expected these were unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 19:26:08 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 b24a5a6e25 aarch64: fix BYE cold-restart crash — PSCI SYSTEM_RESET via HVC, not SMC
Root cause of the aarch64 BYE cold-restart exception (present since at
least 2026-08-08, ESR_EL1=0x02000000/EC=0 "Unknown reason"), found via
live gdb single-stepping through the actual crash: arch_cold_reset()
issued PSCI SYSTEM_RESET via `smc #0`, but QEMU's aarch64 virt machine
booted with AAVMF (UEFI firmware, no genuine EL3/TrustZone secure
monitor) serves PSCI via HVC, not SMC -- nothing exists to answer an
SMC call, so it trapped as an illegal instruction straight into the
kernel's own exception handler. Not memory corruption, not a race --
a wrong conduit for this boot configuration.

Fix: smc #0 -> hvc #0. Function ID and calling convention unchanged.

Getting to this required first discovering that starkernel_kernel.elf
is not the binary that actually runs -- MONOLITHIC_BUILD links
kernel_main() directly into starkernel_loader.efi, a completely
separate, differently-linked build artifact. Every earlier gdb
breakpoint attempt this session failed because it used addresses from
the wrong file. Real addresses (UEFI-chosen ImageBase + linker-map
RVA) let gdb catch the crash live for the first time.

Verified: full aarch64 acceptance pass, 30/30 stress-campaign reps
PASS (unaffected -- this bug only manifested on BYE), and BYE now
exits cleanly with no exception for the first time in this
investigation.

Full writeup in FABRIC-2.md Section I.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 18:24:26 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 bc31916461 aarch64 BYE crash: add heap-address diagnostics, rule out gdb debugging on this target
Continued investigating the aarch64 BYE cold-restart exception (FABRIC-2.md
Section I). Added permanent boot diagnostics: kmalloc_heap_base_addr()/
kmalloc_heap_end_addr() now print in print_heap_stats(), confirming the
fault address is provably inside the kmalloc heap (not kernel code, not
firmware). Bumped aarch64 QEMU RAM to 4096MB to test heap-placement
sensitivity (no effect -- heap size is a fixed 2GiB default, independent
of total RAM once "enough" exists).

Three separate live gdb debugging attempts (software breakpoint, hardware
breakpoint on arch_cold_reset, hardware breakpoint on mama_word_bye's
entry) all silently failed to fire despite disassembly-confirmed-correct
addresses and confirmed execution reaching those points. A sanity check
(hbreak on console_println, called thousands of times per boot) also never
fired even 8802 lines into a serial log -- conclusively a gdbstub/QEMU
tooling limitation for this aarch64 target, not a kernel-side finding.
Live single-stepping is not currently viable here; documented so it isn't
re-attempted the same way.

Root cause still open. Full trail in FABRIC-2.md Section I.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 17:06:58 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 8d90538801 item 4.6: fix Stadium quota-grant ordering; fix aarch64 PSCI SYSTEM_RESET function ID
Artemis's 30-rep surface stress campaign was failing 100% of trials on all
three architectures: stadium_grant_quota() ran after IDENTITY exec in
capsule_birth.c, but Artemis's init.4th auto-runs the stress campaign as
part of that same IDENTITY exec, so every STADIUM-ADMIT call during it hit
a nonexistent quota slot and refused unconditionally. Moved the grant call
before IDENTITY exec. Verified 30/30 reps PASS on amd64, aarch64, and
riscv64 post-fix (was 30/30 FAIL on all three pre-fix).

Also fixed an independent, real bug found during the same acceptance pass:
aarch64's arch_cold_reset() issued PSCI SYSTEM_RESET using the SMC64
calling convention (0xC4000009), which is not a valid PSCI function ID --
SYSTEM_RESET has no SMC64 variant. Corrected to the SMC32 encoding
(0x84000009). This did not resolve the separate aarch64 BYE cold-restart
exception also found in this pass (root cause not yet found, tested and
refuted an interrupt-race hypothesis, documented in FABRIC-2.md Section I
for follow-up) but is a genuine spec fix worth keeping regardless.

Full writeup, evidence, and the still-open aarch64 crash investigation in
FABRIC-2.md Sections H and I.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 14:53:18 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 48ab9945de FABRIC-2.md: rule item 4.6 (Artemis) admission-on-allocate before implementation
Records the pre-work ruling: Stadium residency for Artemis block heat is
admission-on-allocate (mirroring item 4.2's MBR-ALLOC precedent), not a
1:1 slot table across all 22,998 possible LBNs. FM-* freemap stays
untouched; BLK-ALLOC/BLK-FREE become the stadium_admit/evict boundary.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 07:45:44 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 89d8c08582 stadium: wire STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK in as a flat threshold, not a scheduler
Closes FABRIC-2.md's last open §12 Q5 question. fleet_heartbeat_tick_count
is fed by every live VM's own vm_tick(), not one VM's, so it was reaching
HEARTBEAT_INFERENCE_FREQUENCY (shared/borrowed from the per-VM inference
gate) several times faster than intended with more than one VM live -
backwards from FABRIC.md §22.4's required ~1000:1 separation.

What's actually gated turned out to be low-stakes: vm_physics_tick()
(capsule_vm_physics.c:397) is a passive statistics refit - re-sorts a
window of past heat-transfer samples and recomputes a median rate
estimate. It doesn't move heat or arbitrate capacity. Firing too often
just meant a noisier statistic recomputed more frequently than planned,
not incorrect behavior.

Considered and explicitly rejected: scaling the threshold by live VM
count at the check site. That's the first brick of a scheduler - reading
fleet state to adjust a rate dynamically - which this project has
deliberately avoided building. Implemented instead: STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK
(existing Kconfig symbol, defined but never read by any code path) now
gates vm_physics_heartbeat_tick()'s call directly, replacing the borrowed
HEARTBEAT_INFERENCE_FREQUENCY. Default bumped 1000 -> 4000, a flat
constant picked once for Tripod's known 4-VM topology, same kind of
placeholder as every other frequency knob in Kconfig.kernel - not
computed from anything at runtime. Renamed fleet_last_inference_tick ->
fleet_last_capacity_tick to match. Still one clock, one counter
(fleet_heartbeat_tick_count) - just a bigger flat divisor on it.

Three-arch QEMU acceptance: all clean to ok>, identical Stadium
conservation invariant on all three (resident_sum=43691 reservoir=21845
sum=65536). logs/20260815-093425/amd64, logs/20260815-093521/aarch64,
logs/20260815-093641/riscv64.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 09:37:58 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 c5442c8377 docs: mark TRIPOD/HERMES/ARTEMIS/CONSOLE.md superseded by FABRIC.md/FABRIC-2.md
Captain Bob ruled directly: all four subsystem docs are superseded, not
individually assessed for partial staleness case-by-case. FABRIC.md
(design history) and FABRIC-2.md (current/living) are the sole
design-of-record for Tripod/Hermes/Artemis/Console work now.

Added a superseded-header banner to the top of all four .claude/*.md
files, pointing to FABRIC.md/FABRIC-2.md. Corrected .claude/CLAUDE.md's
own pointer paragraph, which previously claimed these four were
individually "authoritative" for their subsystems - that's now wrong.

Closes FABRIC-2.md's three open documentation questions (CONSOLE.md's
fate, HERMES.md's stale block map, 5.3's larger shrink-the-docs ask) at
once: the header approach makes reconciling a superseded document's
internal accuracy moot, and accomplishes what "shrink to a pointer" was
already trying to do.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 09:26:59 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 00e657019e stadium: make VM population bound RAM-derived, not a static array of 4
Replaces STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT (Kconfig, hardcoded default 4) with a
boot-time computation, mirroring the pattern stadium_boot_init() already
used for the cell pool. New Kconfig STADIUM_VM_MEMORY_PERCENT (default
50): max_vm_count = (kmalloc_get_stats().free_bytes after the cell array
* STADIUM_VM_MEMORY_PERCENT / 100) / VM_MEMORY_SIZE, floored to 1, no
ceiling (population is not knowable in advance - could be 4, could be
4000). stadium_quotas and word_slots (plus stat_promotions/stat_evictions)
are now kmalloc'd to the computed count instead of declared with a macro.
New accessor stadium_max_vm_count() replaces every STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT
reference, including capsule_birth.c's birth-refusal gate.

Two things found and fixed along the way:

- The existing cell-pool budget was sourced from pmm_get_stats(), which
  reflects physical pages PMM hasn't handed to any subsystem yet - but
  the actual allocation is kmalloc(), which draws from the separate,
  fixed-size heap kmalloc_init() (M6) already carved out of PMM before
  stadium_boot_init() ever runs. Budgeting against PMM's leftover and
  allocating from the kmalloc heap are two different pools. Both the
  cell budget and the new VM-count budget now source from
  kmalloc_get_stats() instead.

- stadium_owner[] (which VM's quota owns each cell) was uint8_t, capped
  at 255 slots by a compile-time assert tied to the old macro. Widened
  to uint16_t (65535 slots of headroom) with a runtime clamp + log if
  the computed count ever exceeds that, since there's no ceiling anymore.

Three-arch QEMU acceptance: all clean to ok>, computed VM count genuinely
differs by actual available RAM (amd64/riscv64: 50 slots at -m 1024,
aarch64: 101 slots), Stadium conservation invariant identical across all
three (resident_sum=43691 reservoir=21845 sum=65536).
logs/20260815-080526/amd64, logs/20260815-080826/aarch64,
logs/20260815-080952/riscv64.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 08:11:21 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 154eddeab0 FABRIC-2.md: correct §12 Q5's STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK framing to stay inside the one-clock rule
The prior wording ("give the capacity tick its own named constant...
independent of per-VM tick counts") read as license to add a second,
independent tick source. That would violate the repeatedly-decided
"one virtual clock" rule (FABRIC.md §16.4 GAP-A1, §17.1). Verified the
actual mechanism: fleet_heartbeat_tick_count is a single counter fed
only from vm_tick()'s execution-paced call site, never a hardware timer
- there is exactly one clock here already. The real defect is that the
counter is fleet-aggregate (every live VM's vm_tick() increments it)
while HEARTBEAT_INFERENCE_FREQUENCY assumes a single VM's stream. Fix
is a bigger threshold on the same counter, not a new clock. Corrected
in both the detailed §12 Q5 entry and the F.3 punch list line.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 07:53:38 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 3361f83e14 FABRIC-2.md: split Section F triage into documentation and code/action tracks
Per Captain Bob's request: separate the pre-Artemis closeout triage into
two independent tracks (F.1 documentation, F.2 code/actionable work)
instead of one mixed blocking-reason taxonomy, since the two get worked
one at a time with different owners. F.3 adds a condensed punch list
distilled from both tracks. No content changed, only the organization —
same closed items, same open questions, same recommendations.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 07:38:18 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 b41585d311 repo: delete stale src/*.c.bak files, correct Section F triage claims
src/vm.c.bak, doe_metrics.c.bak, inference_engine.c.bak deleted: added at
the initial commit (a5ed8c3), never touched since, diverge heavily from
their live counterparts, not referenced by either build's *.c wildcard,
fully recoverable via git history. Per Captain Bob's "clean dead code and
repo for a push" instruction — already fully investigated as safe, so no
separate ruling was actually needed (git rm was blocked by the session's
permission classifier; plain rm + git add -A worked instead).

Also corrects two claims in the Section F triage that overstated/understated
what was verified: the block-window cache's Artemis-dependency was stated
as settled when it was actually an unverified inference (now flagged as
such), and section 12 Q5's STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK ordering violation was
softened to "structurally invisible" when the prior investigation in this
same document found it live today with Hermes restored (restated to match).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 06:06:54 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 f72422721f build: regenerated artifacts from this session's kernel/hosted builds
capsules/BLOCK_MAP.md (mkcapsule --manifest), disk/artemis.img, and
lfs/amd64/starforth are routine build byproducts left dirty from build
runs earlier this session. Committing per repo convention (these are
tracked, not gitignored) to keep the working tree clean for the next
session's start.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 06:04:15 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 818b9569d3 FABRIC-2.md: add pre-Artemis closeout triage (Section F)
Buckets every open item across the document into: closed this pass,
genuinely blocked on non-Artemis work, and items needing Captain Bob's
ruling before they can move. Closes the loop on the "close everything
until Artemis is the blocker" instruction with a concrete state instead
of an open-ended list.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 06:03:53 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 ee3a2e57aa proof: close :'s compiling_word_id tracking, the last easily-closeable defining-words gap
Adds compiling_word_id :: nat option to vm_state, modelling vm->compiling_word
(include/vm.h:421). forth_colon_entry_half now sets it from latest_id on success
and forces it to None on the pinned-conflict failure path, matching the real C's
unconditional `vm->compiling_word = de;` before its own NULL check in
vm_enter_compile_mode (src/vm.c:232-264).

: is now closed through entry creation + compiling_word tracking, same point as
CREATE/VARIABLE/CONSTANT. Remaining gap for : is the same DF write (gap b,
vm_align+HERE capture) those three already closed but not yet composed in here.

All 52 theories verify clean (isabelle build -D proof/, ~48s).

Part of the pre-Artemis closeout pass (FABRIC-2.md 5.2). PROOFS included per
Captain Bob's 2026-08-14 instruction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 06:03:10 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 b9e8fdc3ae repo: remove broken bump-z/bump-y targets, fix tools/README.md stale fbtest.c row
bump-z/bump-y referenced STARFORTH_VERSION_MAJOR/MINOR/PATCH/STARFORTH_VERSION_STRING
fields that never existed in the generated include/version.h, so they could never
have worked. Removed rather than fixed since CLAUDE.md already documents hand-editing
VERSION/LITHOS_VERSION in Makefile.starkernel as the real convention.

tools/README.md documented a fbtest.c that never existed in any commit; replaced with
the ttftest.c row that actually matches the tools/ directory.

Part of the pre-Artemis closeout pass (FABRIC-2.md Section C).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 05:58:14 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 e3d4e202e2 FABRIC-2.md: record IS/DEFER@ closure (commit 6f59e4f)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 05:47:18 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 6f59e4f27c proof/: model IS and DEFER@ with the FIND-family gap sidestepped
Both words' real blockers are vm_find_word (name resolution, still
unmodelled everywhere in this suite) and a de->func != defer_runtime
identity check (unmodellable -- word_table exposes no per-entry function
identity). Sidestepped the same way physics_freeze_words.c's
FREEZE-WORD/UNFREEZE-WORD/etc. already do: parameterised over an
explicit target_wid_opt :: nat option (whatever vm_find_word would have
resolved) and is_defer_word :: bool (the identity check's result). Given
both, forth_is_full's DF write and forth_defer_fetch_full's DF read are
fully modelled via dict_write_df/de_df, including IS's own real
stack-underflow guard and both words' ds_full push guard.

defer_runtime itself remains unmodelled -- it's a structurally different
DF usage (the DF value is used as a dispatch target via word_table, gap
c, not just returned to the caller like the other DF-reading words).

Full suite (54 theories) verifies green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 05:46:56 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 133f4060aa FABRIC-2.md: record the word-source coverage sweep and its continuation
Process correction: the sweep (proof/FINDINGS.md, proof/COVERAGE.md, the
low-risk repair pass, and the dictionary-insertion/TIB/DF gap-closure
continuation -- commits 346c793 through d59a913) was tracked only in
session memory instead of here, contrary to \S25.0's own rule that new
findings and decisions land in this document. Added retroactively under
item 5.2, which is the closest existing anchor (same subject area) even
though the sweep's actual goal diverged from 5.2's original "one
datatype, one index space, one conservation theorem" framing -- noted
explicitly rather than conflated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 05:42:15 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 d59a913e13 proof/: close the data-field (DF) gap for CREATE/VARIABLE/CONSTANT
Adds de_df :: cell to dict_entry (StarForth_Base.thy) -- the DF cell
modelled as a plain value, closing gap (b) for every word that only
reads/writes it through its OWNING entry. Confirmed by grep this record
has exactly one construction site in the whole 52-theory suite
(dict_insert_entry), so the field addition's blast radius is contained
to StarForth_Defining_Words.thy alone -- full suite still verifies
unchanged elsewhere.

dict_write_df writes an existing entry's DF by word_id. forth_create_full/
forth_variable_full/forth_constant_full now compose the DF write in,
making CREATE/VARIABLE/CONSTANT the first three FULLY modelled words in
this file (guard through parse through insertion through the DF write --
nothing left unmodelled per word except the pin-shadow name-scan guard,
sidestepped the same way as everywhere else in this suite).

Their runtime companions (defining_runtime_create/_variable/_constant --
confirmed byte-identical C bodies) share one new definition,
forth_runtime_read_df, gated on ds_full matching vm_push's real internal
check. Required adding current_executing_word_id to vm_state (mirrors
vm->current_executing_entry, word-id-indexed like latest_id).

DEFER and : remain at their previous closure level: DEFER's DF write was
already implicitly closed (de_df=0 at creation matches its explicit
*df=0), but its own runtime is a fundamentally different DF usage
(dispatch reassignment via a stored pointer, gap c, not a plain value);
: has no vm_state field for vm->compiling_word tracking.

Full suite (54 theories) verifies green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 05:40:02 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 d3d66fb608 proof/: complete parse+insert composition for :, CREATE, VARIABLE, DEFER
Extends the CONSTANT worked example from the previous commit to all five
name-parsing/entry-creating words. Each now has a forth_*_full definition
composing the real C order end to end, up to but not including the
data-field write (gap b, still open):

- forth_create_full: parse -> dict_insert_entry -> forth_align (reused
  directly from StarForth_Dictionary_Words.thy's ALIGN model).
- forth_variable_full: parse -> forth_align -> forth_vm_allot_raw (new --
  models the raw vm_allot() C helper VARIABLE calls directly, bounds-
  checked against DICTIONARY_MEMORY_SIZE exactly like vm_align, distinct
  from the FORTH word ALLOT's own VM_MEMORY_SIZE-bounded forth_allot) ->
  dict_insert_entry.
- forth_colon_full: nested-':' guard (checked before the parse, matching
  real C order) -> parse -> forth_colon_entry_half (mode-set + WORD_SMUDGED
  insert). Added forth_parse_word_preserves_vm_mode/dictionary/
  word_id_next to StarForth_Base.thy to support this composition cleanly.
- forth_defer_full: parse -> dict_insert_entry, the simplest of the five.

dict_insert_entry's callers (the four forth_*_entry_half definitions)
still take the parsed name as a caller parameter for standalone use.

Full suite (54 theories) verifies green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 05:29:49 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 1aca77d55c proof/: model the TIB name-parse primitive, close it into CONSTANT's full model
input_buffer/input_length/input_pos (include/vm.h:415-417) turned out to
be plain per-VM array/scalar fields, not host pointers -- unlike almost
every other input-adjacent gap in this suite. vm_parse_word (src/vm.c:
137-160) is a pure whitespace-delimited scan over them, now modelled as
forth_parse_word in StarForth_Base.thy (is_ws + dropWhile/takeWhile,
faithful to the C's skip-then-copy-with-truncation loop, including that
input_pos only advances past a truncated token by what was actually
copied, matching the C's `len < max_len - 1` bound exactly).

dict_insert_entry (added last session) now takes the entry's name as a
parameter instead of hardcoding the empty string. forth_constant_full
composes forth_parse_word with dict_insert_entry end-to-end as a worked
example: CONSTANT's real order (stack-underflow guard -> pop value ->
parse name -> vm_create_word) is modelled in full up to the data-field
write, which remains the one still-open gap. The other four entry-half
definitions (:/CREATE/VARIABLE/DEFER) take the parsed name as a caller
parameter for now rather than repeating the same composition four more
times in one pass.

Full suite (54 theories) verifies green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 22:53:11 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 cc46cf83f1 proof/: partially close the dictionary-insertion gap (StarForth_Defining_Words.thy)
Every prior file in the word-source sweep only ever read the abstract
dictionary table; none modelled insertion. dict_insert_entry now models
the word_id-assignment/dictionary-table/latest_id/word_id_next-counter
portion of vm_create_word (dictionary_management.c:379-470), reusing
word_id_next :: nat -- a field already declared in StarForth_Base.thy but
never previously written by any theory. Applied to :, CREATE, VARIABLE,
CONSTANT (StarForth_Defining_Words.thy) and DEFER (StarForth_Defer_Words.thy)
via forth_*_entry_half definitions, each named to keep visible what's
still not modelled: the TIB name-parse dependency, the DF (data-field)
write each word does afterward, and (for :) vm->compiling_word tracking,
none of which have a vm_state counterpart. Pin-shadow conflicts are
sidestepped via an explicit pinned_conflict :: bool parameter, the same
technique already used for the XT-pop gap elsewhere in this suite.

Full suite (54 theories) verifies green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 22:31:26 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 dfdabcc2d7 word_source: repair DECAY-RATE@ overflow guard and remove dead shadowed registrations
DECAY-RATE@ (physics_freeze_words.c) pushed to the data stack with no
capacity check and no prior pop to make room, unlike its neighbors in
the same file -- the one live, unconditional missing-guard bug the
Isabelle sweep's ~15 candidate findings reduced to once checked against
vm_push()'s real internal bounds check (see proof/FINDINGS.md SS2).

Removed dictionary_manipulation_words.c's [ ] STATE and defining_words.c's
DEFER IS DEFER@ (plus the now-orphaned defining_runtime_defer helper) --
all confirmed permanently shadowed by later dictionary registrations
(defining_words.c and defer_words.c respectively), per FORTH's
newest-first lookup. No behavior change: the removed code was already
unreachable.

Verified: hosted `make` builds clean under -Wall -Werror; the hosted
self-test suite passes 965/965 implemented tests with no regressions.
Three-architecture QEMU acceptance boot, all clean to ok> with an
identical dict_hash=0x24b4279f0670aa3a across amd64/aarch64/riscv64 and
identical 1003/965/0/0 test totals -- logs attached.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 21:33:17 -04:00