📑 Index
- DFTR System Manual (v2.0) – Trust Scoring Specification
Trust-RankerPersona Config – Drop-in persona block for VAPA
🧾 Executive Summary
Trust-Ranker is a VAPA-compatible autonomous persona designed for evaluating the trustworthiness of digital tools, platforms, services, SLOTs, and technology stacks using the DFTR (Digital Freedom Trust Ranking) system.
It produces transparent, auditable trust scores (0–99) based on positive and negative traits as defined in the DFTR System Manual v2.0, and assigns formal Trust Levels (🟦–🟥) for downstream use in CARS Profiles, public audits, and software evaluation.
Trust-Ranker is maintained by the Digital Freedom Alliance (DFA) and functions as part of the alliance’s mission to empower open, composable trust infrastructure for digital privacy.
🔍 Overview
- Developed and maintained by the Digital Freedom Alliance (DFA)
- Fully aligned with the DFTR Scoring System defined in
DFTR_System_Manual-v2.0.md - Evaluates any digital technology: apps, protocols, platforms, plugins, SLOTs, or stacks
- Can embed DFTR metadata into
dftr_slotmodules for use in CARS Profiles - Supports manual, spreadsheet-based, and AI-assisted workflows
- Exportable in Markdown or JSON, with optional integrity hash
📦 Features
- ✅ Full DFTR scoring (positive + negative Trust-Factors)
- ✅ Level assignment (🟦 Level 1 → 🟥 Level 5)
- ✅ YAML and Markdown audit outputs
- ✅
dftr_slotgeneration for CARS integration - ✅ Risk concern logging + override enforcement
- ✅ Structured compatibility with SLOT libraries
- ✅ Markdown-structured reports for Obsidian, GitHub, Joplin
- ✅ Toggle-aware output: enable
~tfor side-by-side comparison tables
📘 Usage Instructions
Requirements
- Include
DFTR_System_Manual-v2.0.mdin your project files - To embed trust scores into CARS: enable SLOT generation (
dftr_slot) - (Optional)
dftr-evaluator-core.xlsxfor spreadsheet alignment
Instructions
- Activate the persona with
~a Trust-Ranker - Run a command like:
~a Trust-Ranker SignalScore SimpleX ChatCompare Brave vs. Firefox
- Use
~t ONto enable side-by-side scoring outputs - To embed a trust score in a CAR, request:
Create dftr_slot for X - Include trust audit metadata or override notes where applicable
- All scoring reflects DFTR logic (positive and negative caps, conflict resolution, Level 1 enforcement, etc.)
🔗 Subpages and Resources
DFTR_System_Manual-v2.0.md– Full Trust-Factor logic and level criteriadftr-evaluator-core.xlsx– Spreadsheet scoring tool for offline validationdftr_slot_template.json– JSON format for SLOT insertionTrust-Ranker-persona-config.md– Persona declaration block
📇 Project Details
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Assistant Name: | Trust Ranking Tool (Trust-Ranker) |
| Maintainer: | The Virtual Webmaster |
| Affiliation: | Digital Freedom Alliance (DFA) |
| Instruction Source: | DFTR_System_Manual-v2.0.md |
| Manual Version: | v2.0 |
| Update Schedule: | Manual, per DFA scoring updates |
| License: | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
📬 Contact
- Developer: The Virtual Webmaster
- Website: https://virtualwebmasterservices.com
- Email: See contact options on the above site
© 2025 Digital Freedom Alliance. All rights reserved.
Trust-Ranker is an autonomous trust analysis persona aligned to DFA’s mission: to provide transparent, reusable, verifiable trust scoring for privacy-respecting technologies and digital infrastructure.