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#+title: Stoa — The Porch (Environment)
#+filetags: :passepartout:stoa:editor:browser:hardware:

Stoa is the user environment — a single Lisp image where editor, browser, shell, and agent coexist.

**Roadmap:**
- v2.0.0: Lish editor + Nyxt browser (Stage 1, Qt/WebKit) + Lish shell
- v3.0.0+: Cannibalization — replace Qt with Lisp-native layout, reduce WebKit to pixel-painting, eventually pure-Lisp browser and window management
- v4.0.0: Native inference — llama.cpp FFI in-process, DSL-compiled model architectures, live surgery on cognition
- v5.0.0: [[id:84a537b4-4256-50c8-91f5-dd5b4538418f][Hardware]] — tagged RISC-V architecture via TinyTapeout, FPGA prototype, hardware GC via dedicated bus master
- v6.0.0: True agency — world models, temporal reasoning, goal persistence across restarts

The architectural principle: Stoa is not a collection of clients connecting to a daemon. The Dispatcher gate stack [[id:84a537b4-4256-50c8-91f5-dd5b4538418f][verifies every action]] regardless of who initiated it. The distinction between "tool" and "self" dissolves. The ultimate goal is a [[id:13e6ae54-2d24-5aa0-b1cd-a7e8e749aa70][self-driving Lisp Machine]] running on custom hardware.