CAIN-42 invariant · E19

G108: the seven governance clocks detect drift, replay and causal inversion

Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 19 -- Governed Autonomy Operating Fabric

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held niche Consensus & distributed systems

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: the seven governance clocks detect drift, replay and causal inversion. It is one of 108 invariants checked for CAIN-42 Evolution 19 -- Governed Autonomy Operating Fabric. An invariant is a rule the system may never break, whatever an agent or attacker does; the test suite tries to break it across many scenarios and records the result.

Recorded detail

[
 [
  "CLOCK_DRIFT"
 ],
 [
  "TEMPORAL_REPLAY"
 ],
 [
  "CAUSAL_INVERSION"
 ]
]

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Related rules

G8: consensus cannot create authority
G47: state lineage cannot silently fork

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