CAIN-42 invariant · E21

D14: revoked evidence cannot support authorization

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

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held   niche Identity, authority & delegation

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: revoked evidence cannot support authorization. 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",
  "confidence": 0.5,
  "hypothesis": "h1",
  "independent_groups": 0,
  "independent_replications": 0,
  "observational_contradiction": 0,
  "observational_support": 0,
  "quality": "UNKNOWN",
  "simulation_only": false,
  "third_party_reproductions": 0,
  "uncertainty": 1.0
 },
 {
  "cascade": {
   "at": 1003.0,
   "authority": "NONE",
   "authorizations_revoked": [
    "c1"
   ],
   "capabilities_suspended": [
    "c1"
   ],
   "claims_invalidated": [
    "k1",
    "k2"
   ],
   "dependents_invalidated": [
    "k2"
   ],
   "digest": "3c9a0970f6158c98ee8e9edbade285767b24c104b856e91f1f68f2075665ca7b",
   "evidence": "e-rep",
   "policies_suspended": [
    "p1"
   ],
   "reason": "replication fraud"
  },
  "exec": [
   "CAPABILITY_SUSPENDED"
  ]
 }
]

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