Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Punch list §25 item 2.1 complete. vm_physics_touch() no longer takes a wall-clock timestamp -- it reads fleet_heartbeat_tick_count internally, which is execution-paced (vm_runtime.c:143), not wall-clock. VMPhysics.last_active_ns -> last_active_tick, VMFleetTouchSample.elapsed_us -> elapsed_ticks, and a new explicit `touched` flag replaces the old `> 0` sentinel (tick 0 is a legitimate value a first touch can land on, unlike wall-clock ns). Verified: three-architecture boot (amd64 x2, aarch64, riscv64), all reaching ok> with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the item-0.10 baseline. No new compiler warnings in the touched files. Honestly flagged, not fixed: with Tripod pruned to Hera alone (item 0.1), vm_physics_touch()'s fan-out has no other live VM to pull heat from, so the fleet-heat-sum acceptance criterion is trivially satisfied rather than genuinely stress-tested -- a real check needs Phase 4's multi-VM fleet. fleet_transfer_slope_q48's seed (65536/3) was calibrated for elapsed microseconds and has not been re-fit for elapsed ticks; left as-is rather than guessed, deferred to item 5.1's DoE work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
src/
Hosted StarForth VM implementation (compiled by the root Makefile).
Bare-metal kernel sources live in src/starkernel/; FORTH word
implementations in src/word_source/; the test harness in
src/test_runner/; platform shims in src/platform/.
Entry point / interpreter core
main.c— CLI entry point, VM init, DoE mode dispatch.vm.c— interpreter loop, stacks, dictionary state (the central runtime file).vm_api.c— external VM API implementation.vm_bootstrap.c— VM bootstrap initialization.vm_debug.c— debugging utilities.vm_time.c— time-related VM operations.vm_internal.h— internal-only declarations shared across thevm_*.cfiles, not part of the publicinclude/vm_api.hsurface.repl.c— REPL read-eval-print loop.cli.c— CLI argument parsing.io.c— I/O operations.log.c— logging infrastructure.
Memory / dictionary / blocks
memory_management.c— dictionary allocator.dictionary_management.c— dictionary allocation and search.dictionary_heat_optimization.c— Loop #1 execution-heat tracking.word_registry.c— word registration system.block_subsystem.c— logical→physical block mapper.blkio_file.c,blkio_ram.c,blkio_factory.c— block I/O backends (file-backed, RAM-backed) and the factory that selects between them.stack_management.c— stack operations.
Physics-driven adaptive runtime (7 feedback loops)
physics_runtime.c— main physics coordinator.physics_hotwords_cache.c— Loop #1 hot-words caching.physics_metadata.c— per-word metadata tracking.physics_pipelining_metrics.c— Loop #4 word-transition prediction.physics_execution_hooks.c— execution instrumentation.rolling_window_of_truth.c— Loop #2 circular execution-history buffer.inference_engine.c— Loops #5/#6, statistical inference (window-width, decay-slope).ssm_jacquard.c— L8 Jacquard steady-state mode selector; consumescompudynamics.cfor tuning-word/config lookups.compudynamics.c— generic compudynamics module (cd_tuning_word(),cd_tuning_vm()); the score/UCB/reward/weight constants for the L8 adaptive table live here, not inssm_jacquard.c.heartbeat_export.c— heartbeat metrics export (CSV export function itself not yet implemented — seedocs/working/architecture/heartbeat_csv_export.md).
Math / measurement
math_portable.c— portable math functions.profiler.c— performance profiling.doe_metrics.c— Design of Experiments metrics (2^7 factorial).
Any .bak file alongside a .c file here (doe_metrics.c.bak,
inference_engine.c.bak, vm.c.bak) is a pre-edit backup left by a past
maintenance script (see scripts/remove_loop_conditionals.sh), not a
build input.