The assembled vocabulary shrinks to a nucleus; the FORTH-79 Required Word Set is loaded at boot from a capsule as colon definitions, POST (v3's cases, ported, comparing results) runs on it, and the node reaches ok> -- hosted and bare metal, on amd64, aarch64 and riscv64. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>