Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Hera never loaded common:messaging.4th, unlike every other VM in the fleet. The standing belief was this was deliberate, to avoid moving her dict_hash off baseline. Checked live instead of assumed: loading messaging.4th into her dictionary silently dropped every colon- definition referencing one of 8 STADIUM-* primitives that register_child_vm_words() gives every other VM but register_mama_forth_words() never gave her -- a missing-primitive gap, not a designed privilege boundary. Confirmed mama_word_birth is genuinely VM-agnostic and SPAWN-EVENT is an unwired placeholder before proposing the fix. Fix: register the same 8 STADIUM-* primitives for Hera, load messaging.4th from init.4th the same way Hermes/Artemis/console/mint already do, and give her own idle-loop context a direct MSG-TICK call (not VM-EXEC, which would hit the same reentrancy class the existing per-other-VM pump loop already guards against) so her own queued messages actually drain. Her dictionary is now a proper superset of every child VM's, plus her remaining extra privileges -- not structurally different from any other VM, just additionally privileged. Verified: dict_hash identical across amd64/aarch64/riscv64 (0xc8f4b09e36f4fc4a), Hermes/Artemis dict_hashes unchanged and still cross-arch identical, all three boot clean to zuse)ok> with zero UNKNOWN WORD faults, mkcapsule --lint clean. Unblocks rewriting the turn-attractor (FABRIC-3.md §XIX) to coordinate via real MSG-SEND/MSG-TICK instead of blocking VM-EXEC. 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