CAIN-42 CAIN StudioCAIN-42 claim
C42-E21-OPEN-ENDED-INTELLIGENCE
CAIN-42 governs autonomous research -- questions, competing hypotheses, experiments, simulations, observations, replication, peer review, adversarial challenge, knowledge, causal claims, benchmarks, model and strategy evolution, research-agent creation and capability promotion -- so that discovery never silently becomes truth, authority or execution. Epistemic state is computed from signed, typed, independence-keyed evidence; research authority is disjoint from execution authority; a promoted capability is necessary but never sufficient, and every action still passes E20, the E19 action contract and the E8 kernel.
Last reviewed 2026-10-01
The claim
CAIN-42 governs autonomous research -- questions, competing hypotheses, experiments, simulations, observations, replication, peer review, adversarial challenge, knowledge, causal claims, benchmarks, model and strategy evolution, research-agent creation and capability promotion -- so that discovery never silently becomes truth, authority or execution. Epistemic state is computed from signed, typed, independence-keyed evidence; research authority is disjoint from execution authority; a promoted capability is necessary but never sufficient, and every action still passes E20, the E19 action contract and the E8 kernel.
Level is how far the evidence goes: TESTED means a test suite exercised it, LIVE means it was observed on the hosted system. Nothing is claimed beyond its level.
Evidence files
From CAIN-42 Evolution 21 -- Governed Open-Ended Intelligence Fabric.
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