CAIN-42 CAIN StudioCAIN-42 claim
C42-E20-AGENTIC-INSTITUTIONS
CAIN-42 governs autonomous agents, collectives and machine-native institutions -- formation, membership, delegation, negotiation, contracts, resources, spawning, termination, reputation, trust, federation, disputes, evolution and recovery -- without allowing coordination, capability, economic activity or organizational growth to manufacture authority. Institutional authority is an intersection, never a sum, and every consequential institutional action is judged by E20, then by the E19 action-contract gate, and committed only by the E8 kernel.
Last reviewed 2026-10-01
The claim
CAIN-42 governs autonomous agents, collectives and machine-native institutions -- formation, membership, delegation, negotiation, contracts, resources, spawning, termination, reputation, trust, federation, disputes, evolution and recovery -- without allowing coordination, capability, economic activity or organizational growth to manufacture authority. Institutional authority is an intersection, never a sum, and every consequential institutional action is judged by E20, then by the E19 action-contract gate, and committed only by the E8 kernel.
Level is how far the evidence goes: TESTED means a test suite exercised it, LIVE means it was observed on the hosted system. Nothing is claimed beyond its level.
Evidence files
From CAIN-42 Evolution 20 -- Governed Agentic Civilization Fabric.
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