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Stoa — The Porch (Environment)

Stoa (Στοά) is the body/environment layer of the triad — editor, browser, shell, and infrastructure all running in a single verified Lisp image. The Dispatcher gate stack verifies every action regardless of who initiated it. The distinction between "tool" and "self" dissolves.

The full roadmap is documented across seven stages on this page, each covering engineering, security, cost, timeline, and practical implications. Start reading from Stage 0 — Now.

The three layers of the triad:

  • Logos — the mind: recorded discourse, verified reasoning, the gate
  • Stoa — the porch: environment, infrastructure, the verified Lisp machine
  • Agora — the society: identity, communication, contracts

Key features across all stages:

  • No kernel, no process boundaries, no memory corruption — the verified Lisp evaluator is the only computation substrate
  • Merkle-verified memory graph — every object has a structural hash, composable proofs of integrity
  • Gate-stack authorization — the Dispatcher is the only path to state mutation, verified in ACL2
  • Dual-unit ASIC — symbolic core (tagged RISC-V) + tensor unit (cons-cell-native matmul), one chip, one proof
  • In-process LLM inference under gate-level token interception — no API calls, no sandbox to escape
  • Plist-native weights — every weight Merkle-verified, provenance from training to inference
  • Verified fine-tuning — every gradient step authorized against policy, data consent per example
  • Neural world model (LeCun type) — sensory-physical prediction, falsified against the accumulated observation DAG
  • Common sense enters through three channels (LLM, world model, causal inference) and is brought under gate control through falsification

The ultimate goal is a self-driving Lisp Machine running on custom dual-unit silicon.