Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Corrected substrate: this OS is anti-POSIX, anti-file by design -- the prior "dedicated system-identity disk" framing was wrong vocabulary, caught before any code was written (saved as feedback_no_files_anti_posix.md). The real primitives are content-addressed capsules and raw LBN blocks, never a filesystem. Design (agreed on request): a growable metadata fence at the TOP of a device's block space, mirroring block_subsystem.c's existing bottom BAM reservation from the opposite end -- the two grow toward each other, never colliding, same shape as a stack/heap. Starts at BLK_META_FENCE_INIT (128 blocks), explicitly never RAM-backed. Reuses Artemis's already-attached, already-proven virtio-blk device -- no new device. Rejected reusing BAM's own reserved zone directly: those blocks are fully claimed by BAM bookkeeping, not free space. Step 1 only: new meta_fence_blocks field in blk_volume_meta_t, appended after reloc_devblocks and carved from _pad[] -- identical graceful- default technique reloc_devblocks already established (a pre-existing volume reads it back as 0, not a format break). Added a compile-time _Static_assert on the struct's total size, same discipline homeblocks_sig.h uses -- caught a real bug immediately: the hand-summed _pad[] formula was off by 4 bytes (a compiler alignment gap the manual count missed), found via offsetof() rather than re-deriving by hand. Worked against disposable clones throughout, never the real disk/artemis.img (ARTDISK is ?=-overridable) -- artemis-metafence-fresh.img (blank, fresh-format path) and artemis-metafence-test.img (copy of the pre-existing artemis.img, graceful-default-on-reload path), kept as regression fixtures matching disk/README.md's existing convention. Verified independently via direct byte reads of the disk image, not the kernel's own log output (log_message(LOG_INFO,...) doesn't reach serial in this build -- unrelated pre-existing gap): fresh format writes 128 at header offset 184, a reboot without reformatting preserves it, the old pre-fence image reads back 0. Full 3-arch acceptance boot against the real, untouched disk/artemis.img also clean. Allocator (user_blocks math) and zone read/write accessors both still open -- next steps, documented in FABRIC-3.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01U14ET9CWAtbQMbYqomKgXd
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.