rajamesandClaude Opus 5.5
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The review of step 6c found it did not keep its rule. Ruled: fix them all; 16 hops. - Paying a NACK no longer waits on a lower-numbered neighbour; a node that owes one does not sleep, and goes on taking in what it is sent. - AWAIT looks first through the messages already waiting. - A node waiting to write to a removed neighbour gets error 18: the word that says who is reading also says which ports have anything on them. - A console line lets Hera go when she is blocked on the first word of a message (v4_fabric_interrupt_error, a device's `pending`). - A refused answer is told to the node that waits, not the one that answered; one owed to the node itself goes to its own queue. - A message is passed on by at most 16 nodes, then refused. - A GONE is believed only when it says it is from the node's centre. - Tests: the check that tested nothing is replaced; no room for a waiting sender; the limit that remains is tested as a limit. - MESH.md 7b's rule reworded to what holds, 7b.7 says where it falls short; README likewise. make -C v4 test, sanitize, hosted-check; three bare-metal boots. POST 538 of 538, word_count=317, dict_hash=0xc0769523a47b7dc3 on all six. 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