# TrustCarry Protocol v0.3 — Research Claim 028

**Sealed record identifier.** `kaal:research-claim:persona-protocol-v0.3:028`

**Author-affirmed research claim.** Persona evaluation uses four sequential, fail-closed gates, and a later gate cannot satisfy an earlier gate.

**Status.** Public research record. Not yet eligible for the published-source scholarly claim layer.

**Claim type.** design

**Holds when.**

- Persona Protocol v0.3 as proposed; not an adopted standard

**Protocol.** TrustCarry Protocol v0.3, historically titled and aliased as Persona Protocol v0.3.

**Supporting passage from Persona Protocol v0.3.**

> Separation of functions is meaningful only if it produces an ordered procedure. Persona Protocol specifies four sequential gates, each of which fails closed and none of which may be satisfied by a later gate.

**Source locator.** Line 142 of the sealed v0.3 source.

**Source SHA-256.** `38efc43b80ab62426ca1f946114677afeda730bca30dda71dfd299223a6def7c`

**Provenance.** Direct author affirmation of exact batch `persona-protocol-v0.3-new-claims-2026-08-01`. The source manuscript remains an unpublished research draft.

**License.** CC BY 4.0; attribute Wulf A. Kaal and cite the canonical record URL.

**Limit.** This record is public and citable as an author-affirmed research proposition. It is not a claim extracted from a canonical published paper, is not an adopted standard, and does not alter the 5,033 scholarly claim layer.