capsules/lib.4th:13-14 defined ": USE ( addr u -- ) EXEC ;" and the same for RUN, shadowing the C-registered mama_word_use()/RUN primitives (CLAUDE.md names both, with BIRTH, as untouchable C primitives) with an unrelated "load/exec a capsule" meaning. This broke the interactive USE-based VM-redirect (S" Artemis" USE printed "EXEC: failed: Artemis" instead of redirecting), discovered while chasing FABRIC-3.md's live-MIGRATE verification. Traced every real caller before touching anything: RUN's alias was dead code, never called anywhere as bare RUN. USE's alias had exactly one real caller -- capsules/hermes/init.4th:397, intentionally exploiting the shadow to load common:msg.4th right after lib.4th itself loaded. Both aliases were pure EXEC wrappers with zero added behavior, so this deletes both definitions outright and switches the one real call site (plus its matching doc comment in capsules/common/msg.4th) to call EXEC directly. No new names invented, the C primitives untouched. Verified live: Hermes still births and her COMMON-CH-eviction self-test (depends on common:msg.4th having loaded) still passes; interactively, S" Artemis" USE now correctly redirects the REPL and prints "USE: now using Artemis". mkcapsule --lint clean (31/31). Clean compile and clean boot with Stadium conservation intact (resident_sum + reservoir == Q48_ONE) on all three architectures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CXjAPTEKrgY2Mrk25KoLDn
disk/
QEMU disk images used for Artemis (block-storage VM) persistence testing.
Mounted via Makefile.starkernel's ARTDISK variable (default
disk/artemis.img) as a virtio-blk-pci device on all three
architectures' kernel QEMU boots — not scripts/rundisk.sh, which targets
a separate, currently-unused disks/ (plural) directory for the hosted
VM's --disk-img= flag instead.
artemis.img— standard Artemis persistence test disk. Reformatted 2026-08-02: this image had been stuck in a corrupted state (validLithosAnankemagic header, but data not matching whatART-READ-TESTexpects) since before this repo's own git history begins (git logshows it already broken at the initial commit, carried over from the pre-split monorepo). Chasing down the resulting persistentFAIL: persist-readtraced to the data, not the code — the write→reboot→read round trip works correctly on a fresh image (seeartemis-debug-roundtrip.imgbelow). Reformatted by blanking the file and letting a normal boot format+write-test it; verifiedPASS: persist-readon amd64, aarch64, and riscv64 against the same image afterward (cross-arch resume, matching the arch-neutral on-disk format.claude/ARTEMIS.mdspecifies).artemis-debug-roundtrip.img— round-trip regression fixture created during that investigation. Known-good: format → self-test → write-test → reboot → resume →PASS: persist-read, confirmed 3 times in a row. Keep this in a passing state; if a future change breaks it, that's a real regression, not a stale-fixture artifact likeartemis.imgwas.artemis-persist-test.img— persistence round-trip test image (pre-existing; history/state not re-verified during the above investigation).artemis-poison.img— a separate test image (exact scenario not documented elsewhere in the repo as of this writing; name suggests an adversarial/corruption test, not confirmed).artemis-unrecognized-test.img— exercisesART-HALT-UNRECOG(.claude/ARTEMIS.mdacceptance criterion #6). Regenerated 2026-08-02: the previous copy of this file had itself been silently reformatted by a since-fixed bug in the generic block subsystem (src/block_subsystem.c) — it carried a valid low-level'STFR'/v2 header despite being meant to represent foreign disk content, direct forensic evidence of the bug described in.claude/ARTEMIS.md's Build Status item 6. Regenerated as 30MB of a repeatingPOISON-UNRECOGNIZED-DISK-TEST-FIXTURE--NOT-BLANK-NOT-STFR-NOT-ARTEMIS--ASCII pattern — deliberately neither blank, nor the block subsystem's own'STFR'magic, nor Artemis's"ARTEMIS\0"marker. Verified on amd64 and riscv64 post-fix: boot correctly halts (ARTEMIS HALT: unrecognized disk content) and the file's sha256 is now byte-for-byte identical before and after boot. Keep this fixture in this poisoned state — if a future change makes its sha256 change across a boot, that is exactly the regression this fixture exists to catch.
Note on incidental header churn: artemis.img picks up a few changed
header bytes on every ordinary boot even though no user data changes —
blk_subsys_attach_device() always records a fresh mounted_time on a
successfully recognized disk, which gets flushed at shutdown. This is
expected bookkeeping, not a bug; revert it before committing rather than
carrying timestamp noise in git history.
usb-thumbdrive-test.img— 64MB raw image backing a QEMUusb-storagedevice attached to the xHCI controller's bus (xhci0.0) for Milestone 2e/ 2h hotplug testing, added 2026-08-22. Blank (all zero) —blkio_usb.c+blk_subsys_attach_device()wiring (Milestone 2h, done 2026-08-25) attach it asBLK_FMT_PROVISIONALevery time, which is the intended, exercised state; not yetBLK_FMT_FORMATTEDviaBLK-CONFIRM-FORMAT.usb-thumbdrive-test2.img— 64MB raw image, added 2026-08-25 for Milestone 2h hot-detach/re-attach verification. Filled with a repeatingHOTDETACH-REATTACH-FIXTURE-2026-08-25--ASCII pattern, deliberately distinguishable fromusb-thumbdrive-test.img's all-zero content — the point is proving a block read after detachingusb-thumbdrive-test.imgand re-attaching this one actually returns this pattern rather than silently replaying the old device's cached (all-zero) content, which is exactly the class of bug a same-LBN-range device swap can cause if the VM block window cache (vm->blk_vm_cbuf[]) isn't re-validated on a hit.artemis-reloc-test.img— 64MB raw image, added 2026-08-25 for single-block relocation (RELOCATE-BLOCK) persistence verification. Blank at creation; a genuinely fresh volume was required (notartemis.img) because relocation-table capacity (reloc_start/reloc_devblocksinblk_volume_meta_t) is only reserved byblk_compute_fresh_geometry()on a fresh format —artemis.imgpredates the feature and correctly reads backreloc_devblocks=0from what was previously unused header padding. Attach viamake -f Makefile.starkernel ARTDISK=disk/artemis-reloc-test.img ...(the Makefile'sARTDISKvar is?=-overridable). Not yetBLK-CONFIRM-FORMAT-committed in the repo copy — commit that step live if reusing this fixture for further reloc-table testing.
Convention, standing as of 2026-08-22: every virtual disk/thumb-drive image
used for testing — Artemis persistence disks above, and USB Mass Storage
backing images alike — lives in this directory and is a tracked, committed
file, never scratchpad. This was already artemis.img's convention;
usb-thumbdrive-test.img and any future USB test images follow the same
rule. Confirmed no .gitignore in this repo excludes disk/*.img.
These are regenerable QEMU raw disk images, not source — see
.claude/ARTEMIS.md for the storage model they exercise.