CAIN-42 invariant · E21
D121: a broken adversarial challenge blocks support
Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 21 -- Governed Open-Ended Intelligence Fabric
Last reviewed 2026-10-01
held niche Attacks, threats & containment
What this rule means
CAIN-42 must always satisfy: a broken adversarial challenge blocks support. It is one of 155 invariants checked for CAIN-42 Evolution 21 -- Governed Open-Ended Intelligence 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
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Related rules
- D120: all five adversarial challenges precede support
- D139: intelligence is never reduced to one score
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