Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Punch list §25 item 3.5 complete. stadium_admit(candidate) places into an unused cell if one exists (no comparison needed), otherwise finds the least-dense resident -- skipping pinned and contains-gated patrons, which are never eviction candidates -- and evicts it only if the candidate is strictly denser, per §19.3. stadium_evict(cell_index) dispatches the departing patron's behaviour before clearing its slot, per §17.2. Caught a real bug before it ran: the first draft used contains == 0 to mean "holds nothing," but cell index 0 is a valid index (Hera, item 3.6). Fixed with a proper sentinel, STADIUM_CONTAINS_NONE (UINT32_MAX). A second-pass review found mass was not accounted for: both functions handled exactly one cell regardless of the candidate's stated mass, which leaks cells on eviction of any mass > 1 patron and breaks capacity conservation. Fixed by refusing any candidate with mass != 1 -- multi-cell patrons need the per-VM free lists item 3.2 already deferred (§22.3), not built here. Documented, not fixed: the discriminator bitmap can't distinguish free from continuation cells, so the free-cell scan reads continuation-cell payload bytes under the header layout -- latent since nothing creates continuation cells yet, and the mass != 1 refusal keeps it provably latent. Superseded by the free list when it exists. Unexercised at runtime: nothing calls either function yet (no real patron kind is wired to the Stadium). No self-test added -- filling ~74,000+ cells to reach the eviction-on-full branch was judged impractical, following item 2.2's own precedent for its unexercised fleet-full path. Verified: three-architecture boot (amd64, aarch64, riscv64), all reaching ok> with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the item-3.4 baseline. 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