Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Completed the FORTH-79 standard-dictionary cross-ISA exerciser campaign: all
9 identities (zuse, rajames/bob, 00-06) x all 3 architectures (amd64,
aarch64, riscv64), 27 legs total. No crashes, no heap corruption across the
full run -- real-world validation that the WIREBIND use-after-free fix
(commit 9142dda, FABRIC-3.md SXIII) holds under genuine multi-cycle load,
not just the synthetic repro used to verify it.
Cross-identity parity is perfect: 0 diffs across all 9 identities on each
architecture. Two real bugs found in double-precision (D.) output, reported
per this project's standing rule (report, don't fix without being asked):
- M* on a negative operand -> D. reports DOUBLE-OVERFLOW, universally
across all three architectures (engine-level bug, not arch-specific).
- D+ on two negative doubles -> D. reports DOUBLE-OVERFLOW on aarch64
only; amd64 and riscv64 both correctly print -2. cell_t width confirmed
64-bit on all three (ruled out as the cause); exact mechanism still open.
Also fixed a test-harness timing issue (run_identities.sh): the retry
budget for USE-after-attach was too tight for boots with several live VMs
already accumulated, causing false "FAILED to USE" verdicts on identities
that actually succeeded a few seconds later. Widened the budget and
switched to smaller per-boot batches (2-3 identities) as the reliable
pattern for this shape of campaign.
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