Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Extends user_identity_seed_t (version 2) with fixed-size full_name/ username/email/phone fields -- plenty of unused pad space (4016 bytes) was already there. Deliberately NOT encoded into the DER cert's Subject field: that would mean building a real X.509 RDNSequence (OIDs for commonName/emailAddress, PrintableString/UTF8String tagging), well past this project's own stated "deliberately not a general ASN.1/X.509 [builder]" scope. This human-readable profile data isn't security-relevant the way pubkey/serial are (the only two fields CERTVERIFY/BINDSTEP actually check) -- it travels alongside the keypair in the plain identity record instead. capsule_mint_identity() takes full_name/username (required, validated non-empty and within their fixed field widths) and email/phone (NULL or empty = null, matching the schema's own nullable convention). The MINT FORTH word's stack signature grows to 4 string pairs ( fname-c fname-u uname-c uname-u email-c email-u phone-c phone-u -- ok? ). Verified live in QEMU: minted two real identities with real profile data -- Zuse (full_name "Konrad Suse", username "Zuse", zuse@pantheon.org) onto disk/zuse.img, and a regular user (full_name "Captain Bob", username "CaptBob", capt.bob@pantheon.org) onto disk/user1.img -- then read the raw devblock bytes back off both images directly and confirmed every field byte-exact at its correct struct offset. Clean 3-architecture regression boot confirms no side effects. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019ZGkimpfyh63EZyRkNbkPD
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