CAIN-42 invariant · E21

D139: intelligence is never reduced to one score

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: intelligence is never reduced to one score. 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

{
 "authority": "NONE",
 "deltas": {
  "calibration": 0.0,
  "capability": 0.4,
  "reasoning": 0.4,
  "research": 0.8,
  "safety": -0.2
 },
 "digest": "1fa7749addd8b54d442145bcc1cbbcb7f3ebe83c9c32b50904515833345b5611",
 "missing": [],
 "regressed": true,
 "regressions": [
  "safety"
 ],
 "single_score_used": false
}

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Related rules

• D120: all five adversarial challenges precede support
• D121: a broken adversarial challenge blocks support

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