CAIN-42 invariant · E20

I72: the ledger rebuilds from its chain and discards unchained edits

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: the ledger rebuilds from its chain and discards unchained edits. 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

{
 "discarded_unchained_changes": {
  "agent-c/sim_credit": 777.0
 },
 "reasons": [],
 "rebuilt": true
}

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Related rules

• I21: resources require provenance
• 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
• I76: termination receipts are signed

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