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# docs/03-architecture/tripod/
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Architectural constraints for the three StarForth VMs that make up the
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Tripod. These documents are binding — read the relevant one in full before
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touching any Tripod code. Violating the mythological contract they describe
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is treated as an architectural error, not a style preference.
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- **[TRIPOD.md](TRIPOD.md)** — The Tripod as a whole: Hera (VM-HERA=0,
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governor — spawns/manages/reaps VMs), Hermes (VM-HERMES=1, messenger —
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moves events), Artemis (VM-ARTEMIS=2, memory — owns block storage).
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Covers capability-based dispatch (no heat-based routing), the CD-TICK
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heartbeat, the K≡1.0 compudynamic conservation invariant, the DoE test
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fixture's role, and explicit prohibitions (no heat-based VM routing, no
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primitives added without instruction, no `BLOCK` calls outside the
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0–3071 ramdrive range).
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- **[HERMES.md](HERMES.md)** — Hermes VM architecture: the messenger role.
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- **[ARTEMIS.md](ARTEMIS.md)** — Artemis VM architecture: the memory/block-
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storage role.
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All three documents share a non-negotiable constraint: Tripod implementation
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is StarForth dialect only — no C99 without Captain Bob's explicit written
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permission for that specific construct.
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## See also
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- [`docs/birthing/`](../../birthing/) — birthing plan and QEMU acceptance
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logs for the Hera-spawns-Hermes/Artemis constellation described here.
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- [Project root](../../../README.md)
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