# C2PA text wrapper

A bounded C2PA text candidate reported without cryptographic validation or payload disclosure.

Canonical: https://watermarkslayer.com/supported-artifacts/c2pa-text-wrapper
Markdown alternate: https://watermarkslayer.com/supported-artifacts/c2pa-text-wrapper.md
Last reviewed: 2026-08-12

## Registry facts

- Code point or framing: C2PATXT\0 version and big-endian payload length
- Launch support: report-only
- Launch action: report
- Risk: high
- Explicit writer selection required: no
- Visible review label: [C2PA text wrapper]
- Fixture: fixture_report_c2pa_text_wrapper
- Last fixture test: 2026-08-12

## Why it may appear legitimately

C2PA 2.4 defines wrapping for unstructured text so a provenance claim can travel with text content.

- C2PA 2.4 unstructured-text candidate framing

## Launch behavior

Registry status: report-only. Watermark Slayer reports this observation and does not propose a cleanup edit.

## What a change could affect

Changing or stripping candidate framing can damage credential-like data, and structural recognition alone does not establish validity.

- Launch inspection detects framing only and never emits a valid status.

## Claim boundary

Finding this artifact says only that the specified code point or framing was observed. It is not an authorship verdict, detector score, or evidence that text came from a particular system.

## Evidence

- [C2PA Content Credentials 2.4 specification](https://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.4/specs/ContentCredentials.html)
- [Unicode 17.0 Core Specification, Chapter 23](https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode17.0.0/core-spec/chapter-23/)