Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Closes FABRIC-3.md §XXXII.2's punch list. CONSOLE-ATTACH ( name-c name-u -- ok? ) pairs a fresh console VM to an already-live VM registered as "<name>~user". Deliberately a plain, unconditional primitive with no VMIdentity capability-bit check -- corrects this session's own first-pass design (§XXXII.2 amended in the same commit): identity.installed is 0 for Hera/Hermes/Artemis and for every console-proxy VM, so a capability-bit gate would be unreachable for every VM a human actually types at, Zuse included. Matches ZUSE-ELIGIBILITY-ADD's own "no bespoke gate" precedent in this file; real gating is `' CONSOLE-ATTACH ACL-PIN` in ACL.4th if ever wanted. Two real bugs found and fixed via live testing, not assumed correct: - capsule_birth_baby() never sets a VM's registry name (documented gap, same one capsule_runcap_birth()'s own history already hit) -- UNATTENDED-BIRTH gained a second `name` argument and now calls capsule_vm_registry_set_name(new_vm_id, "<name>~user") itself. - CONSOLE-ATTACH's first draft took an independent console name from the target's name. sk_repl_dispatch_line()'s pairing check (repl.c) reconstructs the target as console_get_vm_name()+"~user" -- a mismatched console name silently falls back to direct interpretation with no error. Caught live (typed `5 6 + .` at a mismatched console, got a direct `11` instead of a relay) and fixed by collapsing to one name argument, matching WIREBIND's own by-construction invariant. Full end-to-end live verification on amd64: minted a test identity, UNATTENDED-BIRTH'd it as "bob", CONSOLE-ATTACH'd a console named "bob", USE'd it, typed `5 6 + .` -- no direct output at [zuse@bob] (relay path taken), then `[zuse@bob~user] 11 ok>` appeared: the relayed command executed on the target identity VM itself and printed its own answer back through the shared console. Hera stayed healthy throughout (2 2 + . -> 4 after switching back). CONSOLE-ATTACH also verified to refuse cleanly on a nonexistent target with no orphaned VM. Test capsule reverted after capture per this project's probe convention -- never committed. FABRIC-3.md §XXXII.2 fully closed: all 4 original questions ratified, the mid-course drive_uuid and ACL-bit corrections both recorded plainly rather than silently folded in, and a doc-accuracy note left for CLAUDE.md's own stale "1024-byte block limit" framing (mkcapsule's real limits are range [2048,5120) and 16 content lines/block) -- flagged, not fixed, out of this punch list's scope. Clean 3-arch qemu boot (amd64/aarch64/riscv64) on the real committed C-only change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K
LithosAnanke v2.0.1
UEFI-bootable FORTH microkernel. Boots from firmware, initialises memory and interrupts, then runs the StarForth VM as its sole userspace runtime. No libc. No OS. Just stone and necessity.
Lithos (foundation) + Ananke (necessity) — the kernel under StarshipOS.
Status — M7.1 (Capsule System · Multi-VM Fleet)
| Milestone | Status | |
|---|---|---|
| M0–M6 | UEFI boot · PMM · VMM · IDT · APIC · heap · framebuffer VT100 console (v1.5.1-FINAL) | ✅ Complete |
| M7 | StarForth VM integration + parity validation | ✅ Complete |
| M7.1 | Capsule birth protocol · Mama FORTH vocabulary · Tripod multi-VM fleet (Hermes/Artemis) · Word-level ACL (Phases 1–7) | 🔄 In Progress |
| M8 | REPL — keyboard input, interactive Forth | Planned |
| M9 | Block storage — AHCI driver | Planned |
POST at boot: parity hash verified across amd64/aarch64/riscv64 · Mama capsule dictionary: 453 words
What's live in M7.1
- Tripod — a named multi-VM fleet (Hera the Mama VM, Artemis, two Hermes instances) births, runs, and re-births independently, verified booting live pre-REPL on all three architectures.
- Hermes — a 17-block inter-VM messaging/channel layer between fleet members, with async delivery and channel negotiation.
- Artemis — a Block Allocation Map (BAM) storage subsystem with Q48.16
block-heat tracking and cooldown/reclamation (
ART-COOL/ART-REAP). - Word-level ACL — every dictionary entry carries a TTL/allow/mode/pin
access-control record. Strict, TTL, and pinned modes; two console layers
(emergency
ok>and superuserzuse)ok>). Phases 1–7 complete (C infrastructure, FORTH policy layer,zusebootstrap superuser, Isabelle proof stubs, kernel parity); Phase 8 (Ed25519 PKI / thumbdrive challenge-response) is the only item remaining. Measured overhead once active on every check: +0.0054%–+0.0088%, CV = 0.000%, across a 3×3 Latin-square DoE campaign (architecture × seed × 30 replicates) — three orders of magnitude below the measurement floor. - VM Fleet Attractor physics — the L8 Jacquard mode selector now has a real per-VM heat channel into fleet-wide tuning, replacing hardcoded compudynamics constants with a dynamically-inferred rate.
- Kconfig build configuration — every physics/heartbeat/pipelining/ kernel-only tuning knob (~40 total) is now a discoverable, optional Kconfig symbol shared with the hosted VM build. See Quick Start below.
Quick Start
# Build kernel (requires cross-compilation toolchain, or native gcc)
make -f Makefile.starkernel ARCH=amd64
# Run in QEMU with OVMF
make -f Makefile.starkernel qemu
# Other architectures
make -f Makefile.starkernel ARCH=aarch64 qemu
make -f Makefile.starkernel ARCH=riscv64 qemu
Artifacts: build/amd64/kernel/starkernel_loader.efi · build/amd64/kernel/starkernel_kernel.elf
For the hosted VM by itself (Linux, no cross-compiler needed, no bare-metal tooling): see
the separate StarForth repository — LithosAnanke used to be a branch inside that repo,
now it's its own project with its own master.
Build configuration (optional)
Every kernel-only knob (STARFORTH_ENABLE_VM, PARITY_MODE, the shared
physics/heartbeat family, etc.) is an optional Kconfig symbol — a plain
make -f Makefile.starkernel uses the same defaults it always has unless
you opt in:
make -f Makefile.starkernel ARCH=amd64 menuconfig
make -f Makefile.starkernel ARCH=amd64 kernel_amd64_defconfig
Documentation
| System Architecture | Full kernel + VM design |
| HAL Reference | Hardware abstraction layer interfaces |
| Capsule System — M7.1 | Capsule birth protocol design |
| VM Fleet Attractor design log | Tripod/Hermes/Artemis physics + build-system history |
| Getting Started / Kconfig reference | Full symbol reference for both build targets |
| Changelog | Milestone-level history |
| Roadmap | Milestone plan through self-hosting |
License
Starship License 1.0 (SL-1.0) — free for personal, research, and educational use. Commercial use requires a separate agreement. Attribution to R.A. James (Captain Bob) must be preserved in all distributions.
Patent pending. USPTO provisional filed December 2025 — physics-grounded self-adaptive runtime system. This license does not grant patent rights. Licensing inquiries: rajames440@gmail.com
Robert A. James (Captain Bob) · Systems Engineer · Hacking since 1973