Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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The full 360-trial campaign was launched, then killed after 4h39m of CPU time with zero trials completed -- still stuck on the very first touch of the very first trial. Root cause, quantified from the workload's own source, not estimated: RUN-CHAOS5 (workload-5.4th) is 1000000 0 DO CHAOS-FIELD CHAOS-RIPPLE LOOP, multiplying out to ~2.4 trillion word executions for one call -- ~495 days at the observed rate. Never designed to be called to completion as a single touch in a repeatedly-birthed worker. A second problem found computing the fix rather than discovering it mid-run again: workload-1.4th's own birth-time self-execution (20 SQUARE-WAVE + 1500 SQUARE-BURST + 100000x MICRO-BURST, all three run automatically at capsule load) sums to ~875 million words -- ~4.3 hours just to birth one worker -- and worker index 1 always maps to it in heterogeneous mode, landing in half the campaign's cells regardless of concurrency level. Fix: two new capsules, workload-1-lite.4th and workload-5-lite.4th, carrying the same word bodies verbatim but a bounded self-execution tail, comparable in scale to the campaign's other workloads. The originals are untouched; only multiuser-doe.4th's own WL-CAPSULE/ WL-ENTRY index 1 and 5 mappings were repointed. Verified live before relaunching a third time: the actual worst case in isolation (5 0 998 MU-RUN-TRIAL, concurrency=8 heterogeneous, includes both fixed workloads plus RUN-OMNI) completed in ~20 minutes wall-clock, Hera stayed healthy throughout. Clean 3-arch qemu boot. Reps reduced 60 -> 30/cell (Bob's call after seeing the real per-trial cost) -- still matches the project's "rule of 3's" DoE convention (same as ACL-RWT's own 30 reps). 6 cfgs x 30 reps = 180 trials. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K
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