diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 360a8ddb..3d7862f7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ categories = ["algorithms", "science", "no-std"]
 license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 repository = "https://github.com/kaidokert/num-traits"
 name = "const-num-traits"
-version = "0.1.0"
+version = "0.1.1"
 readme = "README.md"
 # Include-list of the files that ship. Anything not listed here is never packaged.
 include = [
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 394eea50..391cda40 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -142,7 +142,9 @@ pub use crate::ops::wrapping::{
     WrappingAbs, WrappingAdd, WrappingDiv, WrappingMul, WrappingNeg, WrappingPow, WrappingRem,
     WrappingShl, WrappingShr, WrappingSub,
 };
-pub use crate::personality::{Ct, Nct, Personality, PersonalityMarker, PersonalityTag};
+pub use crate::personality::{
+    Ct, HasPersonality, Nct, Personality, PersonalityMarker, PersonalityTag,
+};
 pub use crate::pow::{Pow, checked_pow, pow};
 pub use crate::sign::{Signed, Signum, Unsigned, abs, abs_sub, signum};
 
diff --git a/src/personality.rs b/src/personality.rs
index e6fb875a..32ede147 100644
--- a/src/personality.rs
+++ b/src/personality.rs
@@ -90,6 +90,40 @@ impl Personality for Ct {
 /// Use as `_p: PersonalityMarker<P>` in struct definitions.
 pub type PersonalityMarker<P> = PhantomData<fn() -> P>;
 
+/// Projects a carrier type's [`Personality`] at the type level.
+///
+/// Implemented by carrier types whose implementation shape is selected
+/// by a personality parameter (a bigint parameterized over its
+/// personality projects that parameter), and by the primitive integers,
+/// which project [`Nct`]: they expose a single hardware-backed
+/// implementation, select no constant-time variant, and make no
+/// constant-time guarantee — integer division in particular has
+/// operand-dependent latency on common CPUs.
+///
+/// Consumers bound on the projection to gate algorithm choice by
+/// personality: `T: HasPersonality<P = Nct>` admits a type into
+/// variable-time code paths, `P = Ct` into constant-time-only ones.
+/// The declaration is the carrier author's contract; there is no way
+/// to verify it structurally.
+pub trait HasPersonality {
+    /// The carrier's personality.
+    type P: Personality;
+}
+
+macro_rules! impl_has_personality_nct {
+    ($($t:ty),*) => {
+        $(
+            impl HasPersonality for $t {
+                type P = Nct;
+            }
+        )*
+    };
+}
+
+impl_has_personality_nct!(
+    u8, u16, u32, u64, u128, usize, i8, i16, i32, i64, i128, isize
+);
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
@@ -102,6 +136,16 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(Ct, Ct);
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn has_personality_projects_nct_for_primitives() {
+        fn assert_nct<T: HasPersonality<P = Nct>>() {}
+        assert_nct::<u8>();
+        assert_nct::<u32>();
+        assert_nct::<u128>();
+        assert_nct::<usize>();
+        assert_nct::<i64>();
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn const_tag_dispatch() {
         const fn dispatched<P: Personality>() -> u32 {