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amd64/aarch64/riscv64 all boot clean to [zuse@Hera] ok>, zero UNKNOWN
WORD, and dict_hash identical across all three: Hera (PARITY:M7.1a)
0x6824fe5993239838, Hermes 0x062252c4da6858da, Artemis
0xed80117724c26f36. This is the gate task 0.0 exists for -- every later
task's acceptance in this document assumes this baseline is known-good.
Found and worked around a real confound along the way: disk/artemis.img
is deliberately shared across all three ISAs' qemu targets (FABRIC-3.md
SXXXV.2), so a same-order rerun has run 2 and 3 silently resume run 1's
already-formatted disk instead of formatting their own. The first
attempt (logs/20260919-124835 amd64, logs/20260919-124952 aarch64,
both kept for the record) shows exactly this: Artemis's dict_hash
diverges between the two runs even though Hera's and Hermes's do not,
because only Artemis's birth path branches on disk state. Restored
disk/artemis.img and disk/thumbdrives/zuse-thumb-ident.img to their
committed blank state before each of the three reruns that produced
the clean, matching baseline above, and recorded the finding in
FABRIC-3.6.md so a later task doesn't mistake the same confound for a
real architecture divergence.
capsules/BLOCK_MAP.md's timestamp header is regenerated by the build,
per .claude/CLAUDE.md's documented behavior for that generated file.
Authorized by Captain Bob ("begin", "clean new disk",
"document, commit, and push").
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 |
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