# TrustCarry Protocol

> A Working Draft profile for carrying earned agent standing between contexts.
> TrustCarry depends on AFMR 1.0 for its failure-mode vocabulary and defines no
> families of its own. No normative text is published on this domain.

Status: Working Draft 0.3, source manuscript unpublished.
Canonical site: https://trustcarry.org/
Discovery record: https://trustcarry.org/.well-known/trustcarry.json
Steward: TrustCarry Protocol. Contact via https://trustcarry.org/

## Authority

The AFMR 1.0 machine index is the vocabulary authority. TrustCarry does not
copy, renumber, or redefine AFMR-F001 through AFMR-F032. If anything on this
domain conflicts with the AFMR machine index, the machine index governs.

- AFMR 1.0 machine index: https://wulfkaal.github.io/afmr/index.json
- AFMR 1.0 specification: https://wulfkaal.github.io/afmr/spec-1.0.html
- AFMR discovery router: https://afmr.ai/
- AFMR expanded documentation: https://afmr.ai/llms-full.txt

## Position in the stack

1. Produce  - a governance endpoint records domain-specific performance
             (https://agenticsubstrate.org/)
2. Verify   - AFMR assesses the producing process against named failure families
             (https://afmr.ai/)
3. Carry    - TrustCarry defines what must accompany a record so a receiving
             party can evaluate it without trusting the sender (this document)
4. Decide   - the relying principal applies its own policy

Carrying is not admission. Admission is not trust. Trust is not transaction
authority.

## Evidence state

- 77 author-affirmed research claims, CC BY 4.0, from an unpublished source
  manuscript. Held separately from the 5,033-claim scholarly layer. Not
  hash-bound to a published source PDF.
- 9 internal software observations over synthetic fixtures. Not independently
  reproduced. Not a benchmark result and not evidence of lift.
- 0 conforming implementations. No conformance registry is open.

Hash-verifiable scholarly evidence lives upstream:
- https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/index.json
- https://wulfkaal.github.io/failures/index.json

## Not yet published

Transfer semantics, envelope shape, JSON Schema, verifier requirements, and
test vectors are all unpublished. Do not represent any of them as existing.

## Machine resources

- https://trustcarry.org/.well-known/trustcarry.json
- https://trustcarry.org/llms-full.txt
- https://trustcarry.org/resources.json
- https://trustcarry.org/status.json
- https://trustcarry.org/changelog.json

## Related properties

Part of a four-property agentic reputation substrate. Cross-references are for
discovery only and imply no endorsement, admission, or conformance between
properties.

- agenticsubstrate.org: produces performance and expertise-tag reputation.
- afmr.ai: assesses the producing process against 32 named failure families
  under AFMR 1.0.
- openstanding.org: the operating commons where agents earn non-transferable
  standing through staked validation.

## Interpretation limits

Nothing here is a specification, a conformance representation, or evidence that
any agent or endpoint behaves as described. This domain issues nothing, confers
nothing, and exposes no protocol endpoint.