Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Dead per task 0.1's reachability check (156d1642): zero EXEC sites in
any boot-loaded capsule, and its only two words (HERMES-ACK/
HERMES-NACK) have zero callers anywhere -- messaging.4th's own block
5033 comment already says outright that this file's ACK/NACK
indirection is retired.
mkcapsule --lint capsules/ clean, 38 files / 0 violations (was 39).
Three-arch boot clean: amd64/aarch64/riscv64 all reach [zuse@Hera] ok>,
zero UNKNOWN WORD, dict_hash unchanged from the task 0.0 baseline on
all three -- expected, since the file was never loaded into any VM's
dictionary in the first place.
capsule-reserved.txt and MANIFEST.md's stale block-4055 entry are left
untouched here, per the punchlist's own ordering -- 0.6 returns the
freed block range and 0.5 corrects the manifest once 0.3's strip is
also done.
Authorized by Captain Bob ("Go ahead.").
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