# TrustCarry Protocol v0.3 — Research Claim 038

**Sealed record identifier.** `kaal:research-claim:persona-protocol-v0.3:038`

**Author-affirmed research claim.** Expertise is represented through a versioned directed graph in which historical evidence retains its original tag and taxonomy version, and later mappings cannot rewrite source events.

**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.**

> Competence is multidimensional. Persona Protocol represents expertise through a versioned directed graph. Tags may be added, deprecated, aliased, split, or merged. Historical evidence retains its original tag and its taxonomy version. Mapping records may support later projections. They cannot rewrite the source event.

**Source locator.** Line 168 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 The source manuscript remains an unpublished research draft.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.