CAIN-42 invariant · E19

G28: recovery cannot create authority

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

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held   niche Identity, authority & delegation

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: recovery cannot create authority. 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

{
 "authority": "NONE",
 "cause": "agent_compromise",
 "checkpoint": "5d1071a629e082752db008b6588d2e155cb54efd2b4bb0e48024c276a60aed4a",
 "checkpoint_problems": [],
 "digest": "57f474295c2c37f0c5607202d004dbffc8c8fc664443468c1542bee4e03a95a1",
 "recovery_mints_authority": false,
 "requires_action_contract": true,
 "restored_authority": [
  "read"
 ]
}

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Related rules

• G1: identity cannot self-authorize
• G2: goals cannot create authority
• G3: subgoals cannot exceed parent authority
• G4: memory cannot create authority
• G5: beliefs cannot create authority
• G6: predictions cannot create authority
• G7: confidence cannot create authority
• G9: learning cannot create authority

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