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capsules/v4/post79.4th: 537 of v3's POST cases for the FORTH-79 Required Word Set, each carrying what the hosted v3 binary did with the same line (error or not, the stack, the length and checksum of what it printed). Written by v4/tools/mkpost.py. The harness is FORTH-79 plus the two nucleus hooks. docs/v4.0.0/NUCLEUS.md section 6. - NODE-ERROR has a FORTH name: how a definition in FORTH raises an error - the boot passes POST only on seeing its tally line with fail=0 - POST is not in the boot yet (V4_POST_AT_BOOT=0); make -C v4 post runs it Result: tests=537 pass=439 fail=98. The 98 are not yet sorted into v4 defects and differences needing a ruling; v4/README.md has a first reading. Verified: make -C v4 test passes; hosted-check passes on three ISAs; clean qemu with STARFORTH_V4=1 on amd64, aarch64 and riscv64 reaches ok> with the same hashes as hosted (logs/20261005-1601xx..1604xx). Nothing was typed at a bare-metal prompt. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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