Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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No code changed. This is a closure annotation on an existing open item where it lives (FABRIC-2.md, marked archival by CLAUDE.md, but §I's punch list landed there after the FABRIC series rename and genuinely still lives there) -- not new design content in an archival doc. Used QMP send-key to inject a real keypress into a running headless QEMU guest -- no physical keyboard needed, overturning this item's own "no way to observe the live QEMU GTK window from this environment" assumption. A first pass (amd64 + aarch64, real first keypress after a fresh boot, pre/post log captures) actually reproduced the defect but misread it as clean: both logs showed the echoed key on a bare new "[Hera]" line instead of appended to the still-visible "(zuse) ok> " line, which looks like normal REPL output unless you know the prompt should still be there. QMP screendump on aarch64 confirmed it visually. Root cause traced to two specific interacting lines, not guessed: console_ensure_line_start() (hal/console.c:312) emits its newline via the tx-count-exempt console_putc_inner(), by design, so idle chatter doesn't spam the REPL's prompt reanchor. But sk_repl_idle() (repl.c:178) calls it unconditionally on every ~1s idle beat, including at a bare prompt with nothing typed (n==0, repl.c:610) -- forcing a real but tx-count-invisible newline that the reanchor check (repl.c:633) never notices, so the prompt is never reprinted. The next real keystroke echoes onto the now-blank line with a lazily-emitted "[VMName] " prefix, indistinguishable from Enter having already been pressed. Not a first-keypress race -- it fires on any ~1s+ human pause at a bare prompt, i.e. nearly always, matching "consistent and reproducible." repl.c's own comment at lines 598-609 already half-diagnosed this exact failure mode and gates it for n>0 (mid-edit); the gap is the identical n==0 case (bare prompt) was treated as harmless. Likely fix location noted, not designed here. Verified reproducible on both amd64 (i8042) and aarch64 (virtio-input) input paths; riscv64 shares aarch64's virtio-input code path. Evidence: three fresh boot logs plus before/after screendump PNGs (evidence/aarch64/qemu-screenshot-20260905-013835-i9-*.png). No 3-arch acceptance boot run for this commit -- no code changed, and these logs/screenshots are themselves the evidentiary artifact, not a generic regression check. 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