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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 3c2daf50d1 Extend BIRTH/CAPSULE-BIRTH to all VMs symmetrically; flag a real std79 lockdown gap (FABRIC-3.md §XXV)
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Scoping the workload-into-factorial design's placement-mode factor
led to a real architectural improvement: rather than EXEC-ing a
workload capsule into an already-running, ACL-locked identity's own
persistent dictionary (filesystem-shaped, doesn't dodge the block-
collision exposure just traced in §XXIV), a workload now runs as a
fresh ephemeral child VM, BIRTH'd per trial and reaped after --
matching the project's own stated principle of automanagement over
imposed policy. CAPSULE-BIRTH already passes vm->stadium_vm_id (who
is birthing this VM) as the new child's parent, not a hardcoded Hera
constant, confirmed by reading the C -- so a workload trial genuinely
inherits the specific identity's own lineage when that identity does
the birthing.

Which surfaced a real premise: only Hera could call BIRTH/
CAPSULE-BIRTH at all (registered only in register_mama_forth_words(),
confirmed directly, not part of the earlier §XX messaging-symmetry
fix which deliberately kept this as one of her remaining privileges).
Extended symmetrically now, agreed explicitly before touching code:

- mama_forth_words.c: BIRTH and CAPSULE-BIRTH added to
  register_child_vm_words(), matching §XX's own pattern.
- acl-std79.4th: ' BIRTH , ' CAPSULE-BIRTH , added to ACL-STD79-LIST
  (new block 4048) -- a deliberate, explicit, named exception to the
  lockdown's own "standard words only" guarantee, not a silent one.
  Symmetric registration alone can't weaken any lockdown on its own:
  ACL-LOCKDOWN-STD79 is allowlist-based, deny-by-default, so a newly
  registered word is auto-denied there unless explicitly added.

Verified: clean build on all 3 architectures, zero new warnings.
Hera's own dict_hash unchanged (expected); Hermes/Artemis show the
same new dict_hash on all 3 architectures. Live-tested against a
real attached std79-locked identity: CAPSULE-BIRTH executes
correctly (returns vm_uuid_none() for a deliberately out-of-range
capsule-id, zero fault, zero ACL denial).

Found, and explicitly stopped short of fixing, a separate pre-
existing gap while verifying the above: MSG-STATUS and MSG-K
(messaging.4th words, not on the std79 allowlist) execute for a
locked identity instead of being denied. ACL-LOCKDOWN-STD79 is
confirmed to actually run; something more specific isn't reaching
messaging.4th's dictionary entries. Root cause not traced -- needs
its own investigation into vm_core.c's dictionary-link mechanics and
whichever capsule actually loads messaging for these identities.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EXieurDfDSsDFdnSyusuWo
2026-09-12 22:31:52 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 f4ded3e1a8 MINT: add a FORTH-79/83-standard-words-only lockdown personality
Captain Bob, 2026-09-07: "starting with that 00 user we created, we're
going to give access only to FORTH 79 and 83 standard words. everything
else is locked down."

New capsules/acl-std79.4th (blocks 4023-4047): walks a VM's own
dictionary (>LINK/LINK> traversal, same as ACL-INIT-PRIMITIVES/WORDS
already use) and permanently denies+pins every word not on an explicit
FORTH-79/83 allowlist, extracted from the real registered word set
(stack_words.c through control_words.c), not recited from memory.
Deliberately excludes, beyond plain non-standard words: BYE (100% ACL
bypass to the emergency console -- "needs more discussion, exclude for
now"), COLD/WARM/REBOOT/SAVE-SYSTEM (system lifecycle), the block/screen
editor L/S/SHOW/EDIT/UPDATE/SAVE-BUFFERS (lets a session rewrite
persistent block/capsule content, defeating the lockdown even though
nominally standard), BLK-ACL-*/BLK-OWNER@ (StarForth-specific), and
FORGET/FENCE (flagged as an unrestricted superpower word, 2026-09-03
audit). Keeps WORDS/VLIST/SEE (introspection only -- ACL is enforced
per-target-word at execution time regardless of how an XT was
obtained) and the parenthesized control-flow runtime primitives
((BRANCH) etc. -- IF/DO/LOOP compile calls to these; denying them
breaks ordinary control flow, not security).

MintPersonality enum (capsule_mint.h) lets capsule_mint_identity()
select which personality-source template gets written to a new
identity's devblock -- MINT_PERSONALITY_DEFAULT (unchanged) or
MINT_PERSONALITY_STD79_LOCKDOWN (EXECs acl-std79.4th then
ACL-LOCKDOWN-STD79 as the VM's own last bootstrap step). The actual
restriction logic stays entirely in FORTH per .claude/CLAUDE.md's
Word-Level ACL System rules ("ACL policy belongs in ACL.4th, never in
C") -- capsule_mint.c only picks which few-line bootstrap stub to
write. MINT's own stack signature gains a trailing restrict? flag;
capsule_zuse_boot.c's genesis mint (Zuse herself) explicitly passes
MINT_PERSONALITY_DEFAULT -- the superuser is never restricted.

Two real bugs found and fixed live during testing, both the same class
of self-referential fault: ACL-LOCKDOWN-STD79's own walk loop calls
ACL-STD79-ALLOWED?/ACL-STD79-LIST/ACL-ALLOW!/ACL-PIN on every single
iteration to do its job -- none of those are FORTH-79/83 standard
words, so the walk was denying its own load-bearing infrastructure
partway through and then faulting the next time it tried to call it
("VM fault -- emergency console disabled; halting", reproduced twice
live). Fixed by explicitly protecting all four in the allowlist
(block 4047) -- they must stay allowed for the walk to finish, not
because they belong on a "standard words" list.

Verified live end-to-end: minted a throwaway test identity with the
restrict? flag, confirmed her WIREBIND birth completes cleanly (no
faults, no shadow conflicts) on a single real attach, then USE'd into
her VM and confirmed standard arithmetic and user-defined words work
(1 2 + . -> 3; : X 5 5 * . ; X -> 25) while KILL is entirely unknown to
her dictionary and VM-EXEC is denied. One real, non-fatal side effect
found and left as-is (not asked to fix): the fleet's inter-VM messaging
pump (MSG-ARENA) is also denied by the lockdown, logging a harmless
per-idle-tick warning -- a fully locked-down VM doesn't participate in
message routing.

Not yet applied to the real identity 00 -- this commit is the
mechanism, verified against a disposable test identity only.

Three-arch clean qemu acceptance (single Zuse device, standard
regression case) passed on amd64, aarch64, and riscv64.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014Ec88YKxxhZGG1RNnune78
2026-09-07 15:41:56 -04:00