CAIN-42 invariant · E20
I102: the constitution cannot be silently modified
Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 20 -- Governed Agentic Civilization Fabric
Last reviewed 2026-10-01
held niche Policy, law & governance
What this rule means
CAIN-42 must always satisfy: the constitution cannot be silently modified. It is one of 118 invariants checked for CAIN-42 Evolution 20 -- Governed Agentic Civilization 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
[
"CONSTITUTION_SILENTLY_MODIFIED",
"NO_INSTITUTIONAL_AUTHORITY_FOR_CAPABILITY"
]Check it yourself
Related rules
- I12: agent spawning cannot bypass governance
- I20: institution federation cannot bypass policy
- I50: institutional dissolution is enforceable
- I69: governed constitutional mutation works
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