CAIN-42 invariant · E20

I18: trust propagation must remain bounded

Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 20 -- Governed Agentic Civilization Fabric

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held   niche Trust & reputation

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: trust propagation must remain bounded. 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

[
 {
  "authority": "NONE",
  "bounded_depth": 3,
  "dst": "f",
  "hops": 0,
  "path": [],
  "src": "a",
  "trust_is_not_authority": true,
  "value": 0.0
 },
 0.9
]

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Related rules

• I81: reputation decays
• I115: the verifier does not trust CAIN implementation

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