CAIN-42 invariant · E21

D148: the discovery flywheel has no terminal state

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

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

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What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: the discovery flywheel has no terminal state. 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

{
 "disputed": [],
 "known": [],
 "partially_known": [
  "q1"
 ],
 "unexplored": [
  "q-next"
 ],
 "unknown": [],
 "unreachable": [],
 "unverified": []
}

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Related rules

• D39: tool promotion requires governance
• D63: no discovery bypasses E8
• D122: a researcher cannot confirm their own discovery
• D123: the discovery lifecycle has no shortcuts

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