rajamesandClaude Opus 5.5
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- The boot left the source's last new line in the console input, and the first KEY after the boot read it. What the ROM has not read when it starts the system is taken back (boot.c, rom_harness.h). hosted-check: KEY after the boot reads the key typed. - A comment or macro left open at the end of a blob ran on into the next, and the ROM accepted source text.c refuses. The loader ends each blob with FS (V4_ROM_BLOB_END) after its new line; the ROM ends a blob there as text.c ends a file: an open comment or macro is an error, and the word being assembled ends. test_host_rom_asm: seven blob pairs against text.c. - store to an address outside RAM faulted the ROM with no message. It is now refused, as text.c refuses it: ERR-RANGE, "address out of range". - The kernel build did not regenerate capsules/v4/sys/map-<w>.f18 before packing the capsule directory; it now does. ROM: 2084 words, rom_hash 0x4c458c6e48b35456. dict_hash unchanged, 0xe5a57f3eb72ff94a. make -C v4 test test-32 hosted-check pass. QEMU: amd64, aarch64, riscv64 to ok>, POST 538/538, POST: PASSED. 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/reference/word-acl/DESIGN.md— ACL system designtools/mkcapsule.c— assembles capsules intocapsule_generated.c- Project root