@henols/vice-mcp 0.2.2 → 0.2.3

package/README.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ separately so it can be launched directly by an MCP client.
 
 ## Requirements
 
-- **Node.js ≥ 22.18** (or ≥ 23.6). The server ships as TypeScript and runs under
+- **Node.js ≥ 24**. The server ships as TypeScript and runs under
   Node's native type-stripping — no build step, no flags. Older Node needs
   `--experimental-strip-types` and is unsupported.
 - A **host** with VICE (`x64sc`) available, reachable from wherever the MCP client
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Add it to your MCP client configuration and let the client launch it:
 ```
 
 The bin (`vice-mcp`) speaks the MCP stdio protocol. `initialize` and `tools/list`
-are answered locally (from `tools-manifest.json`); `tools/call` forwards to the host
+are answered locally (from `tools-manifest.stock.json`); `tools/call` forwards to the host
 VICE MCP server.
 
 ## Environment

package/THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ This package is MIT-licensed (see `LICENSE` at the repository root, copyright
 Henrik Olsson). This file lists third-party material incorporated into, or
 relied on by, `@henols/vice-mcp`, with a provenance line per source.
 
-**No GPL-licensed material is incorporated into this package: no GPL-licensed material appears anywhere in `@henols/vice-mcp`'s source or its published tarball.** Every source named below is either zlib-licensed (incorporated), reference-only (nothing copied), or a build/test-time subprocess whose licence therefore never attaches to anything shipped.
+**GPL-2.0-or-later source IS incorporated into this repository, under `src/mcp/vice/vendor/dxa/` (Phase 35, DXA-01).** That source is build-time-only input — vendored to be compiled by `vendor/dxa/build.bash` into a host-side binary this project's host-tool execution seam spawns as a subprocess, never imported by, linked into, or shipped inside the published `@henols/vice-mcp` tarball (A-06: `src/mcp/vice/package.json`'s `files[]` deliberately omits `vendor/dxa/` and the `dxa-*` modules that consume it). Every OTHER source named below is either zlib-licensed (incorporated), reference-only (nothing copied), or a build/test-time subprocess whose licence therefore never attaches to anything shipped.
 
 ## Incorporated material — cc65 (zlib)
 
@@ -51,6 +51,427 @@ freely, subject to the following restrictions:
 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
 ```
 
+## Incorporated material — dxa (GPL-2.0-or-later)
+
+`src/mcp/vice/vendor/dxa/` vendors the upstream-unmodified, GPL-licensed
+source of [dxa](https://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/xa/dists/dxa-0.1.5.tar.gz)
+0.1.5 (37,987 bytes, 25 Mar 2022), the symbolic 65xx disassembler this
+project's byte-level code/data discovery engine builds and spawns
+(`DXA-01`). The tarball is pinned by `dxa-0.1.5.tar.gz.sha256`
+(`8e40ed77816581f9ad95acac2ed69a2fb2ac7850e433d19cd684193a45826799`), written
+to this repository BEFORE the tarball was ever fetched, and re-verified
+byte-for-byte against that pin by `vendor/dxa/build.bash` on every run.
+
+The tarball ships **no `LICENSE` and no `COPYING` file** — the GPL grant
+lives only in a header comment repeated (with per-file variance, below) at
+the top of every vendored `.c`/`.h` file. This project therefore supplies the
+full GPL licence text itself, reproduced in full further down this section.
+
+`main.c`'s header, quoted verbatim from `src/mcp/vice/vendor/dxa/main.c`:
+
+```
+/*\
+ *  dxa -- symbolic 65xx disassembler
+ *
+ *  Based on d65 Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Marko M\"akel\"a
+ *  Changes for dxa (C) 2005-2019 Cameron Kaiser
+ *
+ *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ *  (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ *  GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ *  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ *  Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+ *
+ *  Marko does not maintain dxa, so questions specific to dxa should be
+ *  sent to me at ckaiser@floodgap.com.
+ *
+\*/
+```
+
+**Per-file copyright variance — recorded rather than flattened.** Every
+vendored `.c` file carries the `dxa -- symbolic 65xx disassembler` /
+`GNU General Public License` (GPL) header block, but the copyright line
+itself differs by file, reflecting dxa's own history as a fork of Marko
+Mäkelä's `d65`:
+
+- `table.c` and `vector.c` carry only the original `Copyright (C) 1993, 1994
+  Marko M\"akel\"a` line (their header still identifies as `dxa v0.1.1`,
+  an earlier version string than the tarball's own 0.1.5) — no Cameron
+  Kaiser line at all.
+- `scan.c` and `label.c` carry `Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Marko M\"akel\"a`
+  followed by a separate `Copyright (C) 2019 Cameron Kaiser` line.
+- `dump.c` carries `Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Marko M\"akel\"a` followed by
+  `Changes for dxa (C) 2004-2019 Cameron Kaiser` (note: 2004, one year
+  earlier than `main.c`'s own 2005-2019 span for the same "Changes for dxa"
+  wording).
+- `main.c` (quoted above) carries `Based on d65 Copyright (C) 1993, 1994
+  Marko M\"akel\"a` followed by `Changes for dxa (C) 2005-2019 Cameron
+  Kaiser`.
+
+Every one of `ChangeLog`, `dump.c`, `dxa.1`, `INSTALL`, `label.c`, `main.c`,
+`Makefile`, `opcodes.h`, `options.h`, `proto.h`, `scan.c`, `structures.h`,
+`table.c`, `tests/Makefile`, `tests/test01.t`, `tests/test02.t`, `vector.c`
+is upstream-unmodified and every `.c` file's header names the same GPL
+grant — nothing added, nothing removed, nothing patched
+(`vendor/dxa/build.bash`'s `verify` step asserts this byte-for-byte on every
+run, not merely at vendoring time).
+
+`vendor/dxa/build.bash` — never a package manager, never `$PATH` — is the
+only supported way to obtain a built `dxa` binary; the built binary and every
+`.o` intermediate are gitignored, never committed (host-architecture-specific
+artifacts a digest gate could not otherwise defend). Full text of the GPL
+licence dxa is offered under — the GNU General Public License, Version 2,
+June 1991 — reproduced below because the upstream tarball ships none:
+
+```
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 ## Reference-only cross-checks (no code or data taken)
 
 masswerk.at's 6502 instruction-set reference

package/anno-bank.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+// anno-bank.ts
+//
+// Phase 37, plan 37-06 (AUTO-04/AUTO-05): the processor-port bit decode, the
+// per-range banked-region resolution, and the region-to-map-entry
+// consistency table `anno-join.ts`'s candidate-constraint step calls BEFORE
+// `selectMemmapEntry()` ever runs. This is the phase's highest-risk
+// requirement pair -- both are recorded UNVALIDATED, not narrowed, and a
+// measured survey found no prior art to copy (SVD-Loader, radare2's
+// device-description import, IDA's device definitions all annotate
+// unconditionally, because their domain has no path-dependent address
+// meaning). Resolve bank state BEFORE the address; decline with a reason
+// where the program itself does not determine one.
+//
+// THIS MODULE NEVER NAMES THE PERSISTENCE DEPENDENCY, NEVER OPENS THE STORE,
+// and NEVER IMPORTS `hostpath.ts`/`containerpath.ts` -- the same posture
+// `memmap-lookup.ts` takes. It takes plain data (a raw `$01` value, a
+// `MemmapEntry`) and returns plain data.
+//
+// WHAT THIS IS THE ONE AUTHORITATIVE PLACE FOR: D-37-21's bit arithmetic
+// (`decodeBankState`), the not-applicable-outside-the-three-ranges rule
+// (`resolveBankedRegion`), the address-is-bank-conditional-at-all membership
+// test (`isBankConditionalAddress`), and the region-to-map-entry consistency
+// table (`regionAdmitsEntry`) `anno-join.ts`'s candidate constraint uses.
+//
+// The REACHING-VALUES SET computation -- which recovered processor-port
+// value(s) reach a given program point, over the recovered const-write facts
+// and the stored cross-reference graph (D-37-24) -- lives in `anno-join.ts`
+// itself, not here. This module only ever decodes a SINGLE already-resolved
+// value; it has no notion of "which value(s) reach this address" and never
+// will (that is the join's own responsibility, since it alone holds the
+// store handle and the cross-reference graph).
+//
+// WHAT NOT TO DO:
+//   - Never derive "is this region io/basic/kernal/character-rom" from
+//     memmap.json's `desc` field by regex (37-RESEARCH.md Pitfall 2 /
+//     `BANK_CONDITIONAL_RANGES`'s own header comment in `memmap-lookup.ts`).
+//     `regionAdmitsEntry()` below matches against the STRUCTURED `section`
+//     field (plus one whole-word "RAM" label fallback, since no committed
+//     section names RAM specifically within any of the three ranges) --
+//     never `desc`.
+//   - Never default an unresolved region to RAM (the power-on state). The
+//     caller (`anno-join.ts`) declines instead; this module only ever
+//     returns a decoded/resolved answer or the explicit "not applicable"
+//     member -- it never invents a fallback of its own.
+//   - Never write the store's reserved `bank` column (D-37-25). This module
+//     does not touch the store at all, so that prohibition is satisfied by
+//     construction here -- restated because this is the plan that would be
+//     tempted.
+
+import { BANK_CONDITIONAL_RANGES } from "./memmap-lookup.ts";
+import type { MemmapEntry } from "./memmap-lookup.ts";
+
+/**
+ * D-37-21: what a bank-conditional range currently contains. `not_applicable`
+ * exists so a caller can tell "this address is outside all three
+ * bank-conditional ranges" from "the constraint resolved to RAM" -- collapsing
+ * the two would make an out-of-range address silently RAM-constrained, which
+ * is exactly the confident-wrong-comment failure `AUTO-04` exists to prevent.
+ */
+export type BankedRegion = "io_area" | "character_rom" | "ram" | "basic_rom" | "kernal_rom" | "not_applicable";
+
+/** The decoded triple, plus the raw value it was decoded from. Each field
+ * answers "what does THIS ONE range currently hold", independent of whether
+ * the address a caller cares about actually falls inside it -- that mapping
+ * is `resolveBankedRegion()`'s job. */
+export interface BankState {
+  raw: number;
+  ioRange: BankedRegion;
+  basicRange: BankedRegion;
+  kernalRange: BankedRegion;
+}
+
+/**
+ * D-37-21's bit arithmetic, stated as bit tests rather than left for a reader
+ * to re-derive from `bank.a`'s own inline comment -- which mislabels the
+ * all-RAM value's own bit 2 as clear (it is SET; the RAM outcome it states is
+ * right anyway, because the RAM case never depends on bit 2). Masks to bits
+ * 2-0 FIRST, so two values differing only above bit 2 decode identically --
+ * asserted as its own test case rather than merely trusted.
+ *
+ *   - `$D000-$DFFF` (the I/O range): when bits #1-#0 are both clear, the
+ *     region is RAM regardless of bit #2. Otherwise, bit #2 clear is
+ *     Character ROM; bit #2 set is the I/O area.
+ *   - `$A000-$BFFF` (the BASIC range): BASIC ROM only when BOTH bits #1 and
+ *     #0 are set; otherwise RAM.
+ *   - `$E000-$FFFF` (the KERNAL range): KERNAL ROM when bit #1 is set;
+ *     otherwise RAM.
+ */
+export function decodeBankState(value: number): BankState {
+  const raw = value;
+  const b = value & 0x07; // bits #2-#0: CHAREN(2) HIRAM(1) LORAM(0)
+  const bits10 = b & 0x03;
+  const bit2Set = (b & 0x04) !== 0;
+
+  const ioRange: BankedRegion = bits10 === 0 ? "ram" : bit2Set ? "io_area" : "character_rom";
+  const basicRange: BankedRegion = bits10 === 0x03 ? "basic_rom" : "ram";
+  const kernalRange: BankedRegion = (b & 0x02) !== 0 ? "kernal_rom" : "ram";
+
+  return { raw, ioRange, basicRange, kernalRange };
+}
+
+/** Does `address` fall inside ANY of the three bank-conditional ranges,
+ * regardless of the current `$01` value? The join uses this to decide
+ * whether the whole reaching-values/decline machinery applies to an address
+ * at all -- outside these three ranges, bank state is irrelevant and the
+ * candidate set stays unconstrained (D-37-22). */
+export function isBankConditionalAddress(address: number): boolean {
+  for (const range of BANK_CONDITIONAL_RANGES) {
+    if (address >= range.start && address <= range.end) return true;
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+/**
+ * D-37-22: resolves a single address against an already-decoded `state`,
+ * returning the NOT-APPLICABLE member for any address outside all three
+ * `BANK_CONDITIONAL_RANGES` -- never RAM. The three ranges are disjoint by
+ * construction (each a fixed, hand-maintained, non-overlapping span), so the
+ * first (and only) match determines the answer.
+ */
+export function resolveBankedRegion(address: number, state: BankState): BankedRegion {
+  for (const range of BANK_CONDITIONAL_RANGES) {
+    if (address < range.start || address > range.end) continue;
+    if (range.start === 0xd000) return state.ioRange;
+    if (range.start === 0xa000) return state.basicRange;
+    if (range.start === 0xe000) return state.kernalRange;
+  }
+  return "not_applicable";
+}
+
+/**
+ * The region-to-map-entry consistency table (D-37-22's candidate constraint,
+ * T-37-29's mitigation). Matches the STRUCTURED `section` field, never
+ * `desc` (Pitfall 2) -- a small, explicit, hand-maintained keyword set per
+ * region, cross-checked against the real committed `memmap.json`'s own
+ * section vocabulary (37-RESEARCH.md §C; MEASURED this plan against the
+ * real file's `$D000-$DFFF` overlap).
+ *
+ * RAM has NO dedicated `section` anywhere in the three bank-conditional
+ * ranges -- there is nothing chip-specific to document about plain program
+ * RAM sitting underneath a ROM/IO window -- so it is matched instead against
+ * the entry's own LABEL for a whole-word "RAM" token, which is exactly how
+ * the map's own "depends on the processor port" entries describe the RAM
+ * alternative (e.g. "I/O Area (memory mapped chip registers), Character ROM
+ * or RAM area"; "KERNAL ROM or RAM area"; "BASIC ROM or RAM area").
+ */
+const SECTION_MARKERS: Readonly<Record<Exclude<BankedRegion, "ram" | "not_applicable">, readonly string[]>> = Object.freeze({
+  io_area: Object.freeze(["I/O Area", "VIC", "SID", "CIA", "Color RAM"]),
+  character_rom: Object.freeze(["Character ROM"]),
+  basic_rom: Object.freeze(["BASIC ROM"]),
+  kernal_rom: Object.freeze(["KERNAL ROM"]),
+});
+
+/** Whole-word "RAM" -- deliberately NOT a bare substring match, so a label
+ * like "PROGRAM" or "RAMPAGE" (neither of which exists in the committed map
+ * today, but the rule should not depend on that) never false-matches. */
+const RAM_LABEL_WORD = /\bRAM\b/;
+
+/**
+ * Does `entry` represent `region`? `not_applicable` never reaches here -- the
+ * join only calls this once a real bank-conditional region has been
+ * resolved for a specific address. An entry matching NO region member
+ * returns `false`, so the caller's candidate-narrowing EXCLUDES it rather
+ * than silently admitting it (D-37-22's own prohibition).
+ */
+export function regionAdmitsEntry(entry: MemmapEntry, region: Exclude<BankedRegion, "not_applicable">): boolean {
+  if (region === "ram") return RAM_LABEL_WORD.test(entry.label);
+  const markers = SECTION_MARKERS[region];
+  return typeof entry.section === "string" && markers.some((marker) => entry.section.includes(marker));
+}