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Captain Bob was told that v3 leaves the words POST's cases define in the
dictionary, and ruled that v4 should. That was false: v3's run_test_suite
puts the dictionary back after each word's cases (test_common.c:333,
:365). Shown that, he ruled that POST leaves nothing. The boot now
seals the system, runs POST, and has the node do COLD, whose printing is
not shown; PARITY:V4_SYSTEM is the system as sealed.
A case the node does not come back from ends POST there, named, with how
many were not run: it would have stalled the boot for hours, where the
capsule had ended it. The runner's test of it now uses a word that
really never ends.
hosted-check also requires that RS1 and T{ are unknown after boot, and
boots a program whose POST has failing cases (tests/post_cases_fail.c):
PARITY:FAIL, POST: FAILED, no prompt, none of a case's printing shown.
Comments and documents that still named the POST capsule or its two
hooks are brought up to date; NUCLEUS.md 6.3 says what v3 does, with the
lines, and how the wrong ruling came about.
make -C v4 test, sanitize and hosted-check pass; amd64, aarch64 and
riscv64 boot, POST 538 of 538, word_count=314, dict_hash
0x220ab283a504a3b3 on all six: logs/20261007-112638, -112901, -113220.
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