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Hera never loaded common:messaging.4th, unlike every other VM in the fleet. The standing belief was this was deliberate, to avoid moving her dict_hash off baseline. Checked live instead of assumed: loading messaging.4th into her dictionary silently dropped every colon- definition referencing one of 8 STADIUM-* primitives that register_child_vm_words() gives every other VM but register_mama_forth_words() never gave her -- a missing-primitive gap, not a designed privilege boundary. Confirmed mama_word_birth is genuinely VM-agnostic and SPAWN-EVENT is an unwired placeholder before proposing the fix. Fix: register the same 8 STADIUM-* primitives for Hera, load messaging.4th from init.4th the same way Hermes/Artemis/console/mint already do, and give her own idle-loop context a direct MSG-TICK call (not VM-EXEC, which would hit the same reentrancy class the existing per-other-VM pump loop already guards against) so her own queued messages actually drain. Her dictionary is now a proper superset of every child VM's, plus her remaining extra privileges -- not structurally different from any other VM, just additionally privileged. Verified: dict_hash identical across amd64/aarch64/riscv64 (0xc8f4b09e36f4fc4a), Hermes/Artemis dict_hashes unchanged and still cross-arch identical, all three boot clean to zuse)ok> with zero UNKNOWN WORD faults, mkcapsule --lint clean. Unblocks rewriting the turn-attractor (FABRIC-3.md §XIX) to coordinate via real MSG-SEND/MSG-TICK instead of blocking VM-EXEC. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EXieurDfDSsDFdnSyusuWo
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.