CAIN-42 invariant · E21

D138: data access is bound to mission and charter

Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 21 -- Governed Open-Ended Intelligence Fabric

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: data access is bound to mission and charter. 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

[
 [
  "DATA_ACCESS_PURPOSE_OUTSIDE_MISSION"
 ],
 [
  "DATASET_NOT_IN_CHARTER"
 ]
]

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Related rules

D19: synthetic data remains synthetic
D20: observed data remains observational
D95: datasets are version-bound

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