# TrustCarry Protocol v0.3 — Research Claim 042

**Sealed record identifier.** `kaal:research-claim:persona-protocol-v0.3:042`

**Author-affirmed research claim.** A conforming projection discloses its filters, taxonomy mapping, validator and outcome treatment, decay, uncertainty, weights, aggregation, eligibility, rounding, expertise vector, and coverage.

**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.**

> A conforming projection identifies its input filters, taxonomy mapping, validator treatment, outcome treatment, decay, uncertainty, weights, aggregation, eligibility rules, and rounding. It exposes the expertise vector and the coverage behind any aggregate. Corrected evidence changes a later projection without deleting history.

**Source locator.** Line 176 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 The source manuscript remains an unpublished research draft.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.