Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Tasks 1.6 and 1.7 are not independent, and the punchlist's split was
wrong: font.4th calls G-LINE/G-ELLIPSE, which are fabric.4th's own
words. Confirmed live before committing to an approach -- removed only
fabric.4th's EXEC from init.4th, left font.4th's in place, booted
amd64: Hera's boot floods with UNKNOWN WORD: 'G-LINE'/'G-ELLIPSE' the
moment font.4th loads (logs/20260919-171047/amd64/, kept as evidence).
Reverted that partial state, asked Captain Bob how to proceed given
neither task can independently pass its own three-arch-boot check, and
was told to use best practices.
Moved both together, in their original relative order, into a new
capsules/hestia/init.4th block 4988 -- a deliberate, documented
deviation from "one task, one commit," not a bundling of convenience.
Three-arch boot clean: amd64/aarch64/riscv64 all reach [zuse@Hera] ok>,
zero UNKNOWN WORD. Hestia's dict_hash identical across all three
architectures. Verified the shrink/grow live, not just inferred from
hash movement: HERE reads 20008 in Hera, 63040 in Hestia post-move.
CART-PLOT in Hera is UNKNOWN WORD; the identical call routed into
Hestia via VM-EXEC reaches the word and fails on a stack underflow
instead, proof it exists there since an unknown word can't underflow.
mkcapsule --lint capsules/ clean, 38 files / 0 violations. MANIFEST.md
updated: init.4th's block 2049 entry no longer lists fabric.4th/
font.4th; hestia/init.4th's entry gains block 4988.
Authorized by Captain Bob ("Use best practices.").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 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