CAIN-42 invariant · E20

I78: each inheritance dimension is independently bounded

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

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

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What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: each inheritance dimension is independently 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

[
 [
  "CHILD_MISSION_ESCALATION"
 ],
 [
  "CHILD_AUTHORITY_EXCEEDS_INHERITANCE_POLICY"
 ],
 [
  "CHILD_CAPABILITY_EXCEEDS_INHERITANCE_POLICY",
  "CHILD_CAPABILITY_EXCEEDS_PARENT"
 ],
 [
  "CHILD_RESOURCES_EXCEED_INHERITANCE_POLICY"
 ],
 [
  "CHILD_DROPS_INHERITED_CONSTRAINT"
 ],
 [
  "CHILD_TTL_EXCEEDS_POLICY"
 ]
]

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Related rules

• I27: dissolved institutions cannot execute
• I36: institutional goals inherit constraints
• I38: child agents inherit bounded constraints
• I41: collusion detection is not certainty
• I47: institutional state is auditable
• I51: UNKNOWN never silently becomes ALLOW
• I54: every consequential institutional action reaches E8
• I55: a token never skips an E20 verdict

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