Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Reran the established 3x9x3 randomized full-factorial campaign (std79-doe.fth) on all 3 architectures per standing project discipline (any Stadium-adjacent change reruns the whole DoE from the top). First amd64 attempt exposed a real test-harness bug that re-triggered the already-known §XIV concurrent-attach gap: the sequential-attach wait loop checked for any recent WIREBIND-attached line instead of the specific identity requested, firing the next device_add before the kernel finished the current one. Only 2 of 8 identities attached; the campaign itself completed cleanly with graceful "VM-EXEC: VM not found" refusals rather than corrupting anything. Fixed the wait loop, discarded the invalid run's campaign result (its boot log kept for the record), reran clean. Corrected reruns: all 8 identities individually confirmed on all 3 architectures, zero VM-not-found errors, zero faults, 81/81 trials correct against established baseline values. Raw logs archived at experiments/std79-doe/results-20260915-stage4/. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K
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