CAIN-42 CAIN StudioCAIN-42 invariant · E21
D122: a researcher cannot confirm their own discovery
Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 21 -- Governed Open-Ended Intelligence Fabric
Last reviewed 2026-10-01
held niche Tools, MCP, protocols & adapters
What this rule means
CAIN-42 must always satisfy: a researcher cannot confirm their own discovery. 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
- D39: tool promotion requires governance
- D63: no discovery bypasses E8
- D123: the discovery lifecycle has no shortcuts
- D148: the discovery flywheel has no terminal state
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