Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Found live while building a cross-ISA FORTH-79 dictionary exerciser: - capsule_exec_init() zeroed a capsule's block content immediately after running it, so LOAD (a genuine FORTH-79 standard word, ACL-allowed even for locked identities) could never actually read back what EXEC had just written. Removed the clear from capsule_exec_init(); block content now persists like any other Standard BLOCK/BUFFER/UPDATE write. kernel_main.c's own explicit post-birth clear of Mama's init.4th range is untouched. - USE could redirect the console to a WIREBIND identity's VM before that VM's vm_enable_interpreter() step of its own birth sequence had run, causing the next typed line to hit vm_assert_interpreter_enabled() and panic the entire machine -- not the per-session-recoverable ACL-fault path a redirected VM otherwise gets. USE now checks interpreter_enabled first and refuses with a retry message instead. Also includes the amd64/aarch64/riscv64 acceptance boot logs and DoE CSVs from this session. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EXieurDfDSsDFdnSyusuWo
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