# TrustCarry Protocol v0.3 — Research Claim 068

**Sealed record identifier.** `kaal:research-claim:persona-protocol-v0.3:068`

**Author-affirmed research claim.** Protocol governance must separate specification stewardship, evidence adjudication, and local authority; changes require documented analysis, and emergency powers must be narrow, temporary, logged, and reviewed.

**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.**

> The protocol requires bounded governance that separates specification stewardship, evidence adjudication, and local authority. Version changes require rationale, compatibility analysis, review, and security and privacy assessment. Emergency powers must be narrow, time-limited, logged, and reviewed.

**Source locator.** Line 274 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 The source manuscript remains an unpublished research draft.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.