CAIN-42 CAIN StudioCAIN-42 invariant · E19
G47: state lineage cannot silently fork
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: state lineage cannot silently fork. 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
[
"ORPHAN_OR_FORKED_STATE",
[
"FORK_ADOPTION_REQUIRES_GOVERNANCE"
]
]Check it yourself
Related rules
- G8: consensus cannot create authority
- G108: the seven governance clocks detect drift, replay and causal inversion
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