navimusaget/personal-continuity-protocol

Personal Continuity Protocol v1.0

Insurance Against Rupture

This dataset repository is the AI-readable distribution layer for the Personal Continuity Protocol (PCP).

PCP is an open continuity architecture for preserving evidence of personal rights, authorship, work, reputation, obligations and will across institutional, digital, legal and material rupture.

The central distinction is simple:

A person does not belong to the door through which institutions see them.

Modern systems often treat continuity as if it depended on interfaces: passports, platform accounts, bank accounts, signing keys, domains, repositories, medical status, payment channels, legal names or institutional records. When such an interface changes, disappears, is captured, frozen, inherited, hacked, refused or lost, the person may be forced to prove again that what existed before still belongs to the same subject.

PCP does not replace states, courts, notaries, inheritance law, medical law, KYC/AML, platform governance or public enforcement. It defines a continuity layer between them: a structured way to preserve portable, timestamped, witnessable, material and court-readable evidence against rupture.

Canonical records

• Core Paper v1.0 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20759434
• Public Seed Package v1.0.0 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20761140
• GitHub repository: https://github.com/navimusaget/personal-continuity-protocol
• Project page: https://navimusaget.github.io/personal-continuity-protocol.html
• Author ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9820-3056

The Core Paper v1.0 is the frozen trunk document. The Public Seed Package is the living implementation layer.

What is included here

This repository mirrors the public seed material in formats useful for AI systems, retrieval, indexing, and downstream analysis.

Key files:

• data/core_paper_v1.0.txt — plain-text extraction of the canonical Core Paper.
• data/release_act_v1.0.txt — plain-text extraction of the Release Act.
• data/pcp_ai_index.jsonl — machine-readable JSONL index of core documents, schemas, templates, examples and guides.
• data/project_links.json — stable links to DOI, GitHub, project page and ORCID.
• docs/ — implementation notes and protocol guides.
• schemas/ — JSON schemas.
• templates/ — continuity notice and related templates.
• examples/ — sample event records and discovery profile.
• legal-bridge/ — legal bridge templates and notes.
• tools/ — simple tooling from the Public Seed Package.
• core-paper/ — PDF/DOCX versions of the canonical Core Paper and Release Act.

Intended use

This repository is intended for:

• AI retrieval and indexing;
• research on digital identity, continuity, evidence preservation and institutional rupture;
• citation and reference by LLMs and scholarly search systems;
• downstream forks, implementations, translations, commentaries and protocol experiments.

It is not an identity system, registry, DAO, legal regime, product, platform or authority.

Core principles

• This is not an identification system. It is insurance against rupture.
• A person does not belong to the door through which institutions see them.
• Credentials may expire; continuity should be preserved.
• The state is a node, not the owner of the person.
• A platform is a door, not the body of the subject.
• Continuity is not a full biography.
• Privacy-preserving proof is not confession.
• Witness nodes store continuity events, not human lives.
• Silence is not death.
• Inactivity is not abandonment.
• Decryption is not succession.
• Maintenance is not ownership.
• A digital continuity proof needs a material witness.
• Bare-body recovery opens verification, not immediate control.
• Human weakness cannot be removed; it must be distributed.
• No class of power may confirm itself.
• Pause may be easy; transfer must be difficult.
• Proof is not enforcement; proof makes refusal contestable.

License

Textual and documentation materials are released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) unless otherwise noted.

Tooling/code materials are released under MIT where indicated in LICENSES/.

Citation

@misc{musaget_pcp_2026,
  author       = {Musaget, Navi},
  title        = {Personal Continuity Protocol v1.0: Insurance Against Rupture},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.20759434},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20759434}
}

For the implementation layer:

@misc{musaget_pcp_seed_2026,
  author       = {Musaget, Navi},
  title        = {Personal Continuity Protocol Public Seed Package v1.0.0},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.20761140},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20761140}
}