CAIN-42 invariant · E20

I21: resources require provenance

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

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held   niche Evidence, receipts & proofs

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: resources require provenance. 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

[
 [
  [
   "RESOURCE_PROVENANCE_REQUIRED"
  ],
  [
   "RESOURCE_ISSUER_UNKNOWN_CANNOT_CREATE_FROM_NOTHING"
  ]
 ],
 [
  "RESOURCE_CONSERVATION_VIOLATED:sim_credit"
 ]
]

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Related rules

• I22: contracts require provenance
• I23: memberships require provenance
• I25: institutional mutations require provenance
• I42: reputation is evidence, not truth
• I48: institutional lineage is reconstructable
• I70: governed dissolution works and is receipted
• I72: the ledger rebuilds from its chain and discards unchained edits
• I76: termination receipts are signed

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