rajamesandClaude Opus 5.5
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A v4 node no longer reads its own command line or prints a prompt. Its host puts a line of text in the node's input buffer and starts it at (LINE); the node interprets it and stops at (IDLE), leaving in (LINE-STATUS) how it ended: completed, an error, or QUIT. The host says " ok" or " ERROR" and prompts, as the kernel's REPL does for a v3 VM. A line may be 1024 characters, a block, as v3's. Ruled 2026-10-05 (V3-PARITY.md 1b); design ENGINE.md 3.1. - quit.v4: (REPL), the node's prompt loop, is gone; (LINE) (IDLE) (DONE) - image.h/.c: v4_line_begin, v4_line_done, v4_line_status; the node is idle at switch-on - boot.c: v4_boot_line, the one loop the hosted binary, the kernel and the capsule loader hand a line with; the code that took " ok" and the prompt back out of the node's output is gone - hosted.c, sk_v4.c: the prompt and the line editing are the host's - test_host_quit.c: the tests are the node's host; two tests of the old 80-character prompt line now test a whole line, 1024 and 1025 characters Verified: make -C v4 test passes at both widths; hosted-check passes on three ISAs; clean qemu with STARFORTH_V4=1 on amd64, aarch64 and riscv64 passes POST (550 of 550) with the same hashes as hosted, and three lines typed at each bare-metal prompt through the serial port are answered correctly (logs/20261005-180922, -181152, -181541). Still the lone node: kernel_main.c starts it before the fleet tables. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
capsules/
FORTH personality files loaded by the VM at boot. A capsule is an immutable, content-addressed payload; its XXHash64 hash is its identity. Any mutation changes the hash and the birth protocol rejects the image.
Key files
| File | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
init.4th |
(m) MAMA_INIT |
Default Mama VM personality — loaded at LBN 2048 |
ACL.4th |
user | Word-level ACL system; self-activating at boot |
zuse.4th |
user | Bootstrap superuser; loaded by ACL.4th |
doe.4th |
user | DoE workload words (EXEC-DOE) — opt-in |
workload-0.4th … workload-9.4th |
(p) |
Numbered personality variants |
init-l8-*.4th |
(p) |
L8 Jacquard mode variants (stable/volatile/diverse/temporal/transition/omni) |
hermes/init.4th |
(p) |
Hermes baby VM personality |
artemis/init.4th |
(p) |
Artemis baby VM personality |
Block namespace
Block ranges are shared across all loaded capsules — collisions cause silent word-definition overwrites.
| Range | Owner |
|---|---|
| 2048–2099 | init.4th |
| 2100–2199 | doe.4th |
| 3000–3999 | workload capsules |
| 4000+ | user-defined (ACL.4th, zuse.4th, …) |
Each block is limited to 1024 bytes. Verify with wc -c before committing.
See also
experiments/bare_metal/README.md— DoE protocols and block namespace rulesdocs/03-architecture/word-acl/DESIGN.md— ACL system designtools/mkcapsule.c— assembles capsules intocapsule_generated.c- Project root