diff --git a/kernel/src/objects/cap.rs b/kernel/src/objects/cap.rs
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+++ b/kernel/src/objects/cap.rs
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+use api::cap::ObjectType;
+
+/// RawCap is the specific implementation of capability which stores in CNode
+pub struct RawCap {
+    /// args: in vanilla seL4 implementation, a cap use two 64-bit words to store all information,
+    ///       but we'll waste some space rather than using bitfield to simplify the implementation
+    args:     [usize; 2],
+    /// cap_type: every capability links to one specific object
+    cap_type: ObjectType,
+}
+
+impl RawCap {
+    pub fn new(arg0: usize, arg1: usize, cap_type: ObjectType) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            args: [arg0, arg1],
+            cap_type,
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn cap_type(&self) -> ObjectType {
+        self.cap_type
+    }
+}
diff --git a/kernel/src/objects/mod.rs b/kernel/src/objects/mod.rs
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+++ b/kernel/src/objects/mod.rs
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+/*
+
+10 kernel object types:
+• Threads (thread-control blocks: TCBs)
+• Scheduling contexts (SCs)
+• Address spaces (page table objects: PDs, PTs)
+• Endpoints (IPC)
+• Reply objects (ROs)
+• Notifications
+• Capability spaces (CNodes)
+• Frames
+• Interrupt objects (architecture specific)
+• Untyped memory
+
+*/
+
+use api::cap::ObjectType;
+use cap::RawCap;
+use core::cell::Cell;
+use core::marker::PhantomData;
+
+pub mod cap;
+pub mod null;
+pub mod untyped;
+
+/// Cap is the high-level wrapper of RawCap, it's a typed reference to RawCap (which is untyped in Rust)
+/// For the typed objects, we should bound it with an empty traits `KernelObject`
+/// And for those objects, at least implement `mint` method and `decodeInvocation` (not enforcing in `KernelObject` for complexity)
+pub struct Cap<'a, T: KernelObject> {
+    cap:      &'a Cell<RawCap>,
+    cap_type: PhantomData<T>,
+}
+
+/// KernelObject is the base trait for all kernel objects
+pub trait KernelObject {
+    // this should be optimized by compiler?
+    const OBJ_TYPE: ObjectType;
+}
diff --git a/kernel/src/objects/null.rs b/kernel/src/objects/null.rs
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+++ b/kernel/src/objects/null.rs
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+use super::cap::RawCap;
+use super::{Cap, KernelObject};
+use api::cap::ObjectType;
+use core::marker::PhantomData;
+
+/// NullObject is used as empty (capability) slot
+pub struct NullObject {}
+pub type NullCap<'a> = Cap<'a, NullObject>;
+
+impl<'a> NullCap<'a> {
+    pub fn mint() -> RawCap {
+        let mut cap = RawCap::new(0, 0, ObjectType::Null);
+        cap
+    }
+
+    pub fn retype<T: KernelObject>(self, new: RawCap) -> Cap<'a, T> {
+        assert!(T::OBJ_TYPE == new.cap_type());
+        self.cap.set(new);
+        Cap {
+            cap:      self.cap,
+            cap_type: PhantomData,
+        }
+    }
+}