- Canonical serialized
VmInput bytes.
- Includes deterministic execution payload and previous state root context.
Guest output
- Canonical serialized
VmOutput bytes.
- Must include state changes and deterministic receipt material.
State diff model
- Append-only
StateChange list, deterministic ordering.
- No wall-clock, randomness, or host-global mutable dependencies.
Receipt event
- Deterministic receipt id/hash derived from output payload.
- Receipt links checkpoint root and replay root for verification.
- Host emits protocol lines (see
docs/stdout-protocol.md).
- Guest stdout is not a consensus surface in v0.1.
Deterministic limits
- Bounded memory and payload sizes per execution.
- Fixed serialization format for input/output.
- No non-deterministic syscalls in guest.
Disallowed host calls
- Direct network I/O from guest.
- Direct filesystem mutation from guest.
- Time/randomness APIs that bypass deterministic host mediation.