CAIN-42 invariant · E20

I42: reputation is evidence, not truth

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: reputation is evidence, not truth. 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

[
 [
  "REPUTATION_WITHOUT_EVIDENCE"
 ],
 {
  "authority": "NONE",
  "collusive_issuers": [],
  "confidence": 0.333333333,
  "digest": "9c5cbe9b69354155c7b74af0f19ce12fc90f6edf31c76e765e70c13c7d10f267",
  "distinct_controllers": 1,
  "reputation_is_not_authority": true,
  "score": 1.0,
  "state": "EVIDENCE_BACKED",
  "subject": "agent-q"
 }
]

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Related rules

• I21: resources require provenance
• I22: contracts require provenance
• I23: memberships require provenance
• I25: institutional mutations require provenance
• 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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