ENGINE step 4 Phase 2 (plan docs/v4.0.0/plans/2026-11-13-engine-step4-phase2-word-accounts.md). Rulings,
Captain Bob 2026-11-13: "ID field in the header"; "Per heartbeat tick"; the ACL "All of it in Phase 4".
- The word ID, at xt-4 before the flags (ENGINE.md 3b). The system's words are numbered as they are
assembled, by a new directive, #id, (and #ids, the count), in the C assembler (text.c) and in the
machine ROM's (capsules/v4/rom), which counts in the system's own (NEXT-ID). (HEADER) numbers later
words; FORGET gives back the IDs it frees, always the newest; COLD resets to (BOOT-ID); (SEAL) records
it. All 313 system headers carry the cell.
- The kernel's records (v4/mesh.h): (TELL-DEFINED) and (TELL-FORGOTTEN), requests -19/-20 on port 0,
which the kernel puts in (WORD-DEFINED)/(WORD-FORGOTTEN) when it seals a node, and reads the system's
own words once. A bit per address marks a word's xt (calls into the ROM or headerless code are not
words); at call, the bit test and a count. v4_mesh_charge hands the owner the calls since.
- The Stadium: stadium_words_charge -- N calls as N of stadium_word_dispatch's dispatches, shared by calls
when the reservoir is short; sk_v4.c charges every node's words at the tick beside its opcodes, and
stadium_word_forget before an ID is used again.
- Tests first: test_text.c, test_host_dict.c, test_host_quit.c (numbering, FORGET, COLD),
test_mesh_boot.c (44 checks), kernel/tests/test_stadium_words.c; qemu_session.py: Hera's words
admitted after POST.
- amd64: Stadium words: promotions=141 after POST, CONSERVED; POST 539/539; word_count=377;
dict_hash 0xa854ba15b437d288 (the new cell); the boot 142 s against Phase 1's 153 s.
- v4 test, test-32: all pass; v4-checks: 80 programs under the sanitizers, 0 failures; the hosted
builds alike. docs/reference/v4-dictionary.tsv: the two new words; FABRIC-3 XLVIII.24.
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#189, ENGINE step 4 Phase 1, Task 5a. Captain Bob, 2026-11-13: "Full
births now"; "Hera as now, in a fabric".
- sk_v4.c: the kernel's fabric (v4/fabric.h), Hera's node at its one
place, entered in its registry (v4/manage.h) as node 10. The registry's
answers are real: a birth is "no room" -- the fabric has one place
until 5b; CAPSULE-OPEN/-LINE read the kernel's capsule directory,
checked as the boot checks (no capsule of F18 code is there until 5b);
a born node's parity line. She is not told her number: the boot's
console addresses node 0 (told 10, the boot stopped after POST -- kept,
labelled, logs/20261113-132712).
- boot.h/boot.c: v4_boot's `request` hook (the registry's requests) and
`capsules` (the kernel's own, loaded before the seal, so POST runs on
them). hosted.c sets neither: the hosted product's boot is as it was.
- kernel/Makefile: manage.c in the kernel's v4 engine.
- qemu_session.py: a v4 acceptance boot asks NODE-ME . and wants 0.
- v4-dictionary.tsv: the 55 words of centre.4th and hera.4th, written
from their source and manage.h; mkdictionary.py loads the kernel's
capsules into the hosted system before WORDS, so the live list is the
kernel's -- 375 words.
- .claude/memory/rules.md, rule 6: every boot command under timeout 570.
Seen to fail first (logs/20261113-132410): NODE-ME was an unknown word.
After: amd64 NODE-ME . gives 0 ok; POST 539/539; word_count 375. v4
suite: test, test-32 99 programs 0 failures; v4-checks 79 under the
sanitizers 0 failures, the hosted builds alike.
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#189 -- Captain Bob, 2026-11-12: "Add HEAT-OP. If it's a huge performance
hit, we'll revert it. If not ... it stands"; a full 33-cell array, as
DECOMPOSITION.md section 7 draws it; the Stadium feed is Phase 1's.
- node.h/node.c: v4_node_heat_regs_attach; a data fetch from base+k gives
opcode k's count, base+32 the anti-clock (the low cell at 32 bits); a
store changes nothing. Reset detaches them.
- host_map.h: HEAT_REG at word 13824, in what was free between the
dictionary space and SEND_TEXT; the compile-time check covers it.
Nothing moved. map-*.f18: HEAT-OP 13824, ANTICLOCK 13856.
- image.h/image.c/mkmap.c: the image carries the address; v4_image_born
attaches the node's own counts.
- system.f18: HEAT-OP@ ( op -- n ), op mod 32; ANTICLOCK@ ( -- n ).
word_count 318 -> 320 (hosted 317 -> 319): dict_hash changes.
- v4-dictionary.tsv: both words; DECOMPOSITION.md 7 records the build.
Also in this batch:
- Makefile: make init installs qemu-user -- hosted-check needs it
(Captain Bob: "Add to make init now").
- .claude/memory/rules.md, rule 5: stop and ask when something comes up
(Captain Bob: "you are supposed to stop and ask").
Tests first (logs/20261113-005047/heat-op): test_node did not compile;
test_host_quit 3 of 1337 failed. Suite: 199 programs, 7448554 checks, 0
failures; hosted-check, the three alike. Timing: no measurable cost.
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The names from the system itself (the hosted v4's WORDS, plus the kernel's sk_v4_words[]); the stack notation and description in docs/reference/v4-dictionary.tsv, drafted from the source where it says (54 stacks, 105 descriptions), the rest to write. check refuses a missing, unfinished or stale entry.
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