rajamesandClaude Opus 5.5
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Ruled 2026-10-08: A, B, C, D and the guard for a half message. Each with a scene in test_host_mesh.c that failed first. A. The words of a message after its first are written from the passes over the messages waiting by (!W): an offer and a wait for that offer only (a new engine address). A reader removed in mid-message makes no error; the rest is let go and counted. Before, the error left the messages waiting in pieces and the node going round for ever. B. A store to the wait withdraws every offer; (GATE1) and (PAY-SET) do it first. Before, text begun after a node went round without sleeping could go to the port of an older offer: text for one node was done by another. C. What a finished text printed is put with the messages waiting, as how it ended is. With no room either is let go and counted; neither is begun as a message from (FINISH) any more, where a stuck node on the way held the whole node. D. Only what a sender is owed from an earlier text -- its output, how it ended -- holds that sender's next text back; a GONE does not; and what cannot be noted holds nothing. A node's own messages keep the order they were made in. - A message half taken in when its writer is removed is let go ((MQ-MEND)), not kept as if whole. - Smaller: a refused line no longer ends a waiting text 'Interrupted'; a node's own queued messages may be passed on by 16 nodes, not 15; no value is left on the stack when a port goes in mid-refusal. make -C v4 test and sanitize at both widths, hosted-check. 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