Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Section T -- +0.0603%, final accepted figure Extended Section S's 3-seed/9-pair campaign to 6 seeds/18 pairs (36 cells) per Captain Bob's request for a fuller campaign before moving on. All 36 cells: 480/480 rows, 0 errors, 17,280/17,280 rows total. Every one of 18 disabled cells reads exactly 261063 ticks -- CV=0.000% across all 3 architectures and 6 seeds, zero exceptions. Every enabled cell's tick count is fully determined by seed alone, identical across all 3 architectures, zero exceptions. Pooled overhead across all 18 pairs: +0.0603% (mean +0.0603%, stdev 0.0008%, range +0.0598%- +0.0617%) -- statistically indistinguishable from Section S's 9-pair figure, now confirmed over double the data with 3 entirely new seeds. This closes the ACL-TTL overhead measurement line of investigation (Sections P, Q, R, S, T). +0.0603% is the final accepted figure. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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