Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Hera still polls xHCI and sig-checks attached drives, but the storage
registration step (blk_subsys_attach_device(), now wrapped as the
BLK-ATTACH primitive) moves to Artemis's own dictionary, reached via
HERA-BLK-ATTACH-REQ/BLK-ATTACH-ACK (VM-EXEC, since Hera can't load her
own messaging.4th -- see the doc comment in repl.c). Identity birth
(Zuse genesis / WIREBIND) is deferred until the ack confirms storage
actually succeeded, instead of running synchronously underneath a
storage call that might fail ("wait for ack, safer for identity data").
Caught and fixed a real bug live during acceptance testing: Artemis's
ACK-APPEND-NUM fed a single-cell value into <# #S #> (which expects a
double-cell pair), causing a stack underflow the first time
HERA-BLK-ATTACH-REQ ran. Fixed with the same `0 SWAP` convention every
other numeric-append helper in this codebase already uses.
Verified booting clean to (zuse) ok> with no VM-EXEC errors on all
three architectures (amd64/aarch64/riscv64).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014Ec88YKxxhZGG1RNnune78
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 |
init-0.4th … init-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