# TrustCarry Protocol v0.3 — Research Claim 013

**Sealed record identifier.** `kaal:research-claim:persona-protocol-v0.3:013`

**Author-affirmed research claim.** Eliminating psychological guile does not eliminate objective misalignment: a faithfully optimizing agent can impose counterparty losses without deception, and verifiability alone does not determine whether to transact.

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

**Claim type.** mechanism

**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.**

> Second, the elimination of psychological guile does not eliminate misalignment. An agent with a faithfully executed objective function can still impose losses on a counterparty whose objective differs. Opportunism in the Williamsonian sense is self-interest seeking with guile; an agent optimizing a specified objective against a counterparty's interest produces the same institutional harm without the guile. Verifiability tells a relying party what the agent did. It does not tell the relying party whether to transact.

**Source locator.** Line 63 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 The source manuscript remains an unpublished research draft.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.