This is a great story, and you're further along than I ever got in 1987! I had a C64 back then, too, and was fascinated by it, but never attempted anything this ambitious. Girlfriends, too, got the best of me! Fast forward nearly 40 years, and I finally built my Unix-inspired shell for it, just with a very different kind of assistant helping with the assembly. :)

The directory speed problem is real. I sidestepped it entirely by keeping the filesystem RAM-resident (max 8 entries, heap at $6000), which makes LS instant but obviously volatile. Your track 16/17 commandeering approach is incredible and fascinating. MATRIX sounds amazing, and you should dig it up and finish it now! :)

Fair point on transparency. I've updated the README to credit Claude Code for the assembly. I directed the architecture, feature set, and all version decisions - Claude wrote the code under that direction. Seven releases over about 6 weeks, commit history and changelogs document the progression. Happy to discuss the design decisions if you're curious.

NIST is requesting public input on security practices for AI agent systems - autonomous AI that can take actions affecting real-world systems (trading bots, automated operations, multi-agent coordination).

Key focus areas: - Novel threats: prompt injection, behavioral hijacking, cascade failures - How existing security frameworks (STRIDE, attack trees) need to adapt - Technical controls and assessment methodologies - Agent registration/tracking (analogous to drone registration)

This is specifically about agentic AI security, not general ML security - one of the first formal government RFIs on autonomous agents.

Comments from practitioners deploying these systems would be valuable.

Deadline: March 9, 2026, 11:59 PM ET Submit: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/NIST-2025-0035-0001

Priority questions (if limited time): 1(a), 1(d), 2(a), 2(e), 3(a), 3(b), 4(a), 4(b), 4(d)

Full 43-question RFI at link above.