Personal Continuity Protocol

Insurance Against Rupture

The Personal Continuity Protocol (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.

It begins from a simple distinction:

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.

Core Paper v1.0

The Core Paper is the frozen trunk document of the protocol.

Title: Personal Continuity Protocol v1.0: Insurance Against Rupture
Author: Navi Musaget
Publication date: 19 June 2026
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20759434
Zenodo record: zenodo.org/records/20759434

The Core Paper is not a product, platform, registry, DAO, identity system or legal regime. It is an architectural document and release act.

It is no longer edited as a living draft. Future work belongs to annexes, implementation notes, translations, forks and the Public Seed Package.

Public Seed Package

The Public Seed Package is the living implementation layer of the protocol.

GitHub repository: navimusaget/personal-continuity-protocol
Seed Package DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20761140
GitHub release: v1.0.0

The Seed Package includes schemas, templates, examples, legal bridge materials, witness-commons event records, continuity notices, material anchor instructions, mnemonic anchor guidance, relay-agent materials, and simple tooling.

The Core Paper is frozen.
The Seed Package may evolve.

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.
  • KYC may regulate a payment channel; it must not erase the claimant.
  • 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.
  • Proof of life must not become proof of obedience.
  • Possession of a key is not ownership of the person.
  • Decryption is not succession.
  • Maintenance is not ownership.
  • A digital continuity proof needs a material witness.
  • A mnemonic anchor may support recovery; it must not own personhood.
  • 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.

Position in the Navi Musaget archive

Within the Navi Musaget archive, the Personal Continuity Protocol belongs to the research and protocol layer.

It extends the project’s long-running concern with systems, access, authorship, memory, AI-readable structure, procedural power and the preservation of human continuity under institutional pressure.

The protocol is not separate from the literary work. It is another form of the same question:

What must not disappear when the door disappears?