Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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These are alternate boot personality capsules, not files doe.4th dispatches from -- confirmed by reading doe.4th itself (it generates its own synthetic workload internally, DOE-WORK) and mkcapsule.c (only the exact filename "init.4th" is special-cased as the active MAMA_INIT capsule). "workload-N.4th" names them for what they are without colliding with that reserved name. Renamed the 10 files (git mv, preserving history) and their own self-referential header comments (also fixed a pre-existing typo, "init-4.th" -> "workload-4.4th"), updated capsules/README.md, capsules/MANIFEST.md (21 references), .claude/CLAUDE.md, and a tools/mkcapsule.c comment. Also fixed experiments/bare_metal/README.md's "Adding a Custom Workload Capsule" section, discovered stale while doing this rename: it documented a WL-HI/WL-LO dispatch table and a wl_id CSV column that don't exist anywhere in the current capsules/ tree or doe.4th's own CSV header -- corrected to describe what's actually there (no pluggable workload dispatch; a custom workload is run by substituting it in as the boot's own init.4th). Verified: mkcapsule --lint clean (35 files, 0 violations), all 3 architectures build with zero new warnings, amd64 boots to zuse)ok> with an unchanged dict_hash/capsule_hash from every prior boot this session (0xc8f4b09e36f4fc4a / 0x1ef4939ed32ec1e6) and zero faults. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EXieurDfDSsDFdnSyusuWo
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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