# TrustCarry Protocol v0.3 — Research Claim 006

**Sealed record identifier.** `kaal:research-claim:persona-protocol-v0.3:006`

**Author-affirmed research claim.** An identifier-key binding does not determine legitimate reputation inheritance, a credential does not determine cross-domain weight, a reputation score does not create present authority, and an authority grant does not establish competence.

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

**Claim type.** failure

**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.**

> The distinction matters because autonomous systems move across runtimes, replace keys, change models, decompose into subagents, and operate under delegated authority. A conventional account binds an identifier to a key. It cannot, without additional governance, determine whether the current system legitimately inherits the reputation of an earlier system. A credential states a fact. It does not fix the weight of that fact in a new domain. A reputation score summarizes prior observations. It does not create present authority. A valid authority grant permits an action. It does not establish that the grantee is competent.

**Source locator.** Line 32 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 The source manuscript remains an unpublished research draft.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.