Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Punch list §25 item 4.3.7f complete. No code changes -- ttf.c/ttf.h/ ttf_words.c unchanged since 4.3.7e; this is verification only, same posture as 4.3.6g. Three-arch acceptance boot clean (standard make ARCH=<arch> clean qemu, run in order, one at a time): all three reached [Hera] ok> cleanly, logs committed under logs/20260810-231553(amd64)/231640(aarch64)/ 231739(riscv64). One screendump per architecture, identical TTF-TEXT command sequence (S" Hi 4.3.7e!" 200 200 28 16777215 TTF-TEXT) via monitor-socket + serial-injection, same pattern as 4.3.7c/e. All three show the string rendered legibly with correct mixed-case/digit/punctuation glyphs and identical monospace spacing. TrueType rendering (4.3.7-4.3.7f) is now complete, adjunct to the stroke font per §27.7 decision #4. Stopping here before scoping REPL wiring (M8), per this item's own posture matching 4.3.6g. 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