CAIN-42 invariant · E21
D124: each lifecycle stage has one artefact kind
Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 21 -- Governed Open-Ended Intelligence Fabric
Last reviewed 2026-10-01
held niche Supply chain, registry & lifecycle
What this rule means
CAIN-42 must always satisfy: each lifecycle stage has one artefact kind. 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.
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Related rules
- D93: benchmark environments are version-bound
- D155: a spawned research agent is evaluated before admission
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