Robert Allan JamesandClaude Opus 5.5
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Workload capsules the DoE births are definitions only; each defines WL-RUN (its old birth-time work plus its entry word twice) and WL-DONE-ARGS. The driver births N workers, SENDs each 'WL-RUN WL-DONE-ARGS SEND', waits in an ordinary loop for N MU-DONE messages, KILLs them (parked idle), and emits the marker. The serialized VM-EXEC round-robin is gone. Kernel: no switch checkpoint after a payload's last word; work heat is the assessed per-beat charge, and a VM gaining work is raised to the busy set's floor (Captain Bob's ruling) -- fixes a live stall where a busy-waiting Hera never yielded, without serializing batch starts. Evidence: cfg-4 rows spread evenly over Hera and all 8 worker slots (44k switches); full cfg-4 trials on amd64/aarch64/riscv64 end fail=0 with 8/8 KILL dead; Stage G interleave byte-identical on all three. Acceptance: dict_hash unchanged, relay 3, idle growth 0. 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