Closes §I.3 (Milestone 5 remainder): WIREBIND now tracks which VM is attached via the home-blocks USB path, and a new EJECT word plus the existing hot-unplug signal both flush/reset-console/kill through it (FABRIC-3.md §F.10). Closes §I.8 (EXPIRE/ACL), re-scoped: the original "admit the zuse session as a Stadium patron and reap on TTL" plan was invalidated a second time -- Zuse authenticates directly onto Hera, who is patron zero and permanently pinned, so there is no patron for a reap sweep to ever find. Built instead as a detach-triggered logout (capsule_zuse_boot_logout()), the same trigger EJECT/hot-unplug use for regular WIREBIND users, so neither identity is a special case. Required a companion fix: install_and_activate() used to skip re-running ACL-ZUSE-BOOT whenever the cert was already installed, which made a logout permanent for the rest of the boot; the outer re-attach gate now checks zuse_session (clears on logout) instead of zuse_cert_installed (a deliberate permanent one-way ratchet, left untouched). Verified 3-arch boot to ok> (amd64/aarch64/riscv64, each in the foreground) after both steps; logs and DoE CSVs from this session's verification runs included per this repo's own audit-artifact convention. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YcT3H2PQeyujrzjqS3Var
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 |
init-0.4th … init-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