Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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These are alternate boot personality capsules, not files doe.4th dispatches from -- confirmed by reading doe.4th itself (it generates its own synthetic workload internally, DOE-WORK) and mkcapsule.c (only the exact filename "init.4th" is special-cased as the active MAMA_INIT capsule). "workload-N.4th" names them for what they are without colliding with that reserved name. Renamed the 10 files (git mv, preserving history) and their own self-referential header comments (also fixed a pre-existing typo, "init-4.th" -> "workload-4.4th"), updated capsules/README.md, capsules/MANIFEST.md (21 references), .claude/CLAUDE.md, and a tools/mkcapsule.c comment. Also fixed experiments/bare_metal/README.md's "Adding a Custom Workload Capsule" section, discovered stale while doing this rename: it documented a WL-HI/WL-LO dispatch table and a wl_id CSV column that don't exist anywhere in the current capsules/ tree or doe.4th's own CSV header -- corrected to describe what's actually there (no pluggable workload dispatch; a custom workload is run by substituting it in as the boot's own init.4th). Verified: mkcapsule --lint clean (35 files, 0 violations), all 3 architectures build with zero new warnings, amd64 boots to zuse)ok> with an unchanged dict_hash/capsule_hash from every prior boot this session (0xc8f4b09e36f4fc4a / 0x1ef4939ed32ec1e6) and zero faults. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EXieurDfDSsDFdnSyusuWo
tools/
Build-time and integration-test utilities for the StarForth / LithosAnanke toolchain.
Contents
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
mkcapsule.c |
Assembles .4th capsule files into capsule_generated.c baked into the kernel image. Invoked automatically by Makefile.starkernel. |
mkcapsule |
Compiled host binary (rebuilt on demand). |
ttftest.c |
Host TTF glyph-rendering test — font rasterization unit tests, no QEMU needed. |
pe_reloc_gen.py |
Generates PE32+ relocation tables for the UEFI loader. |
svg_to_png.py |
Renders every tracked .svg in the repo to a same-named .png via headless Chromium; leaves the source .svg untouched, run manually. |
hermes_smoke.sh |
Hermes v1 hosted smoke test — swaps in the Hermes init capsule and prints values for manual inspection. |
hermes_channel_smoke.sh |
Exercises the full Hermes channel-negotiation lifecycle (CH-REQUEST → CH-ACCEPT → CH-CLOSE → reap) per the protocol in .claude/HERMES.md. |
hermes_tripod_smoke.sh |
Full Tripod integration test — exercises all 6 inter-VM message paths using the DEFER VM-EXEC/IS VM-EXEC dispatcher shim from init.4th. |
kconfig/ |
Vendored Linux kernel Kconfig tooling (conf/mconf/qconf), GPL-2.0. See tools/kconfig/README.md. |
mkcapsule
# Invoked automatically by the kernel build:
make -f Makefile.starkernel ARCH=amd64 clean qemu
# Manual invocation (for inspection):
./tools/mkcapsule capsules/ build/amd64/kernel/capsule_generated.c
Scans capsules/ for .4th files, computes XXHash64 per capsule, assigns
type (m) to init.4th and (p) to everything else.
See also
capsules/README.md— capsule file format and block namespaceMakefile.starkernel— kernel build system- Project root