Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Punch list §25 item 4.3.6e complete. Optional capsule, not wired into the boot chain, overriding DISPATCH-UPPER's codepoint 65 (G-A) with a marked alternate glyph while every other letter falls through to font.4th's originals unchanged. Corrects §27.6.5: redefining the DISPATCH-* bucket word alone is not enough, since DISPATCH-GLYPH/DRAW-GLYPH are themselves compiled early against font.4th's own dispatch words (same early-binding finding as 4.3.6c, one layer up). Verified both ways: the partial override (bucket word only) left DRAW-GLYPH still drawing the original glyph; redefining DISPATCH-GLYPH/DRAW-GLYPH too made the override take effect. Three-arch acceptance boot clean, Stadium conservation unchanged. 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