Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Captain Bob ruled directly: all four subsystem docs are superseded, not individually assessed for partial staleness case-by-case.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 Added a superseded-header banner to the top of all four .claude/*.md files, pointing to FABRIC.md/FABRIC-2.md.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fate, HERMES.md's stale block map, 5.3's larger shrink-the-docs ask) at once: the header approach makes reconciling a superseded document's internal accuracy moot, and accomplishes what "shrink to a pointer" was already trying to do.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>
.claude/
Project-level configuration and instructions for Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working in this repository.
CLAUDE.md— the authoritative reference for how an AI agent should work in this codebase: hard rules (branch discipline, never work onmasterwithout permission, never stash without permission, report bugs rather than fixing them unprompted), build commands for both the hosted VM and the LithosAnanke kernel, architecture summaries, and pointers into the rest of the documentation tree.docs/CLAUDE.mdis an older, hosted-only snapshot kept for historical reference — this file supersedes it.TRIPOD.md— architectural constraints for the Tripod: the three-VM fleet (Hera the governor, Hermes the messenger, Artemis the memory/ storage owner) that LithosAnanke boots. Defines each VM's contract and what NOT to put in each one (e.g. no storage logic in Hermes, no event routing in Artemis).HERMES.md— Hermes VM architecture: the message-routing VM. Read in full before touching any Hermes-related code.ARTEMIS.md— Artemis VM architecture: the block-storage/persistence VM, including its free-map allocator. Read in full before touching any Artemis-related code.settings.json— Claude Code session/tooling configuration for this repository.
All four .md files here are binding constraints, not suggestions — they
are read in full before any work on the subsystem they cover, per this
project's own stated policy.