Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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FABRIC.md did its job: §1-24's design argument is settled and every implementation item through 4.5/4.4ac either landed or was explicitly deferred with a reason. At 7,595 lines it was no longer a good place to find what's actually still open, so it's now archival -- header rewritten to say so, pointing to FABRIC-2.md. Before closing it, read the entire document end to end (not sampled) looking for anything unresolved: punch-list checkboxes, the nine "### N.N Open" architectural subsections in §1-24, the §25.7 "reported, not scheduled" list, and any other "not yet"/"deferred" language. Found and fixed four stale bookkeeping spots where later work had actually resolved something but the note was never updated: §19.6 #3 (resolved by item 2.1), §21.5 #4 (resolved by §20.5 #4), the §25.7 stadium_owner[idx] bullet (resolved by item 4.2), and item 4.5's own parent checkbox (all six sub-items 4.5a-4.5f were already [x]). FABRIC-2.md carries forward everything genuinely still open: the blocked/scoped punch-list items (1.11, 4.3, 4.4s, 4.6, 5.1-5.3, plus a specific pending TRIPOD.md edit found within 5.3), two regressions that were invisible with Tripod pruned to Hera-alone and are now live since item 4.2 restored Hermes (the fleet heat leak in vm_physics_touch(), and multi-VM heartbeat ownership), nine dead-code/ cruft reports, three open design questions (§12 Q5, §17.4, §23.4 #2), and two documentation-debt items (the taxonomy/glossary Captain Bob flagged 2026-08-04, and re-measuring ACL-RWT DoE overhead now that real compiler optimization is enabled). Also includes BLOCK_MAP.md/artemis.img/amd64.csv regenerated by builds during this session, and a qemu boot log/DoE run that weren't from any command in this session -- kept per repo convention, logs are audit artifacts, not deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 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 |
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