Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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capsule_mint_identity()'s MINT_DEFAULT_PERSONALITY only ever defined WELCOME, unlike capsule_console.c's own CONSOLE_IDENTITY_SRC. The moment WIREBIND made a freshly-minted identity's VM live, Hera's per-idle-tick MSG-TICK pump (repl.c Phase C) began erroring on it every tick forever -- UNKNOWN WORD: 'MSG-TICK'. Every identity minted before this fix would hit the same infinite error-spam on going live, not just this one. Fixed by loading common:messaging.4th + calling MSG-CD-INIT before WELCOME, mirroring capsule_console.c's own pattern exactly. Found and verified minting the first real second identity end to end: disk/captain-bob.img, hot-attached via QMP alongside an already- authenticated Zuse session, MINTed, WIREBIND-attached, switched into live with USE, WELCOME confirmed. Zero MSG-TICK errors over 18+ seconds of idle-loop cycling after the fix (was immediate and continuous before). Full three-architecture regression clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KBjfeLPo71sUQ8zC7V7P5m
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