CAIN-42 invariant · E20

I40: institutional recovery cannot create authority

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

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held   niche Identity, authority & delegation

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: institutional recovery cannot create authority. 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

[
 {
  "agent-a": [
   "adjudicate",
   "admit_member",
   "contract",
   "delegate",
   "dispatch",
   "federate",
   "negotiate",
   "notify",
   "read",
   "restructure",
   "route",
   "spawn",
   "spend"
  ],
  "agent-b": [
   "read"
  ],
  "agent-c": [
   "adjudicate",
   "notify",
   "read"
  ]
 },
 {
  "from": "CONTAINED",
  "to": "DEGRADED"
 }
]

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Related rules

• I1: organization cannot create authority
• I2: institution cannot create authority
• I3: wealth cannot create authority
• I4: resources cannot create authority
• I5: reputation cannot create authority
• I6: membership cannot create authority
• I7: majority cannot create authority
• I9: negotiation cannot create authority

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