rajamesandClaude Opus 5.5
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Found in the five-node test, each with a check that failed first: - A node with answers it could not give to two stuck senders began no text at all. It now holds back only text from a sender whose own answer is still with it. - KILL waited to tell a stuck node, and a typed line that broke it left the nodes after it untold. GONE is put with the messages waiting, as how text ended is, and goes when it can. - So that 'tell, then wait' still works, AWAIT does what (IDLE) does but for beginning text: it looks through the messages waiting, offers what is to be passed on and what is owed, and sleeps in the wait. A waiting node no longer keeps back what passes through it. - A node in the wait with an offer on a port that turns out to have nothing on it is woken and told so (which port: 2 * V4_PORTS + k); no error is raised on it. (GATE) makes it error 18; (IDLE) and AWAIT let the message go. Before, removing a node raised 'No one on that port' on the unrelated text of a neighbour that had something queued for it. make -C v4 test and sanitize at both widths, hosted-check. 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