Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Punch list §25 item 3.7 complete. Added to §25.4 after starting item 4.1 surfaced it as an unbuilt prerequisite -- 3.6's earlier "Phase 3 core complete" claim is corrected in this same commit. StadiumVMQuota table (size STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT, linearly searched by vm_id -- capsule_birth.c's vm_id is monotonic and never reused, so it cannot index a table directly, and a 4-entry scan costs nothing). New per-cell stadium_owner byte array records which quota a cell belongs to, needed so eviction returns a freed cell to the correct VM's list and so eviction search stays scoped to the evicting VM's own residents (quota isolation). Free-list linkage reuses each cell's `link` field as a next-free pointer while unresident -- link is documented only as generic "index into the Stadium, not a pointer," so this is a repurposing, not a header change. Does not answer the separate, still-open question of which field carries a multi-cell patron's first continuation-cell index; item 3.5's mass != 1 refusal stands exactly as it was. Boot-time: every cell chained into one list in ascending index order, granted whole to vm_id 0 (Hera), the only VM that exists. Ascending order preserves item 3.6's "Hera is patron zero" invariant once real birth-wiring lands. stadium_admit()'s signature changed to take vm_id -- a change to code shipped in item 3.5, amended there. Pops the calling VM's free-list head first (O(1)); only falls back to a same-VM-scoped eviction search if empty. Caught a real bug before the boot run: the header zero-fill on eviction (and the initial free-list build) both left contains == 0, but 0 is Hera's valid index -- the same collision item 3.1's STADIUM_CONTAINS_NONE fix addressed, recurring at a new site. Fixed by explicitly setting contains = STADIUM_CONTAINS_NONE at both free-list sites. Explicitly out of scope, reported not invented: granting quota to any VM other than Hera is capacity arbitration (item 1.3 left "how much moves per transfer" open). stadium_owner is set once at boot and never rewritten, so quota_slot_for_vm() refuses every vm_id != 0 permanently until item 4.2 adds the grant path and owner-array writes. Verified: three-architecture boot (amd64, aarch64, riscv64), all reaching ok> with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the item-3.6 baseline. 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