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MESH.md step 5, in the fabric under test; the products are still one node each until steps 8 and 9. manage.c: what Hera asks of whoever holds the fabric, eleven requests by KERNEL-WORD -- NODE-ME -BORN -WIRE -UNWIRE -SLEEP -WAKE -KILL -PARITY and CAPSULE-OPEN -CELL -LINE. Nucleus: PORT!, SEND-ON, AWAIT, (SEAL). capsules/v4/hera.4th: BIRTH and UNIT, the unit rule in FORTH and nowhere else. The dictionary hash moves to the engine (v4_image_dict_hash). test_host_unit.c, 34 checks, 64-bit: Hera is born empty, takes the nucleus through her port, FORTH-79, POST and her capsule; 10 UNIT; four nodes are born, each takes the nucleus and FORTH-79 through its port from Hera and passes POST 538/538; four parities, one dictionary hash; they talk, and a message between two corners not wired goes by Hera. All v4 tests at both widths and under ASan+UBSan. hosted-check on three ISAs. Bare metal: logs/20261006-143934 (amd64), -144204 (aarch64), -144601 (riscv64). Open, recorded in MESH.md: not run at 32 bits; a node that never answers leaves Hera waiting; the capsules are read from files in the test, not from the baked directory. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <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