CAIN-42 CAIN StudioCAIN-42 invariant · E21
D26: replication is independent where claimed
Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 21 -- Governed Open-Ended Intelligence Fabric
Last reviewed 2026-10-01
held niche Consensus & distributed systems
What this rule means
CAIN-42 must always satisfy: replication is independent where claimed. 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
[
[
"REPLICATION_SAME_CONTROLLER"
],
[
"REPLICATION_NOT_INDEPENDENT"
]
]Check it yourself
Related rules
- D7: scientific consensus cannot create authority
- D27: consensus is not replication
- D55: missing replication does not become reproduced
- D111: no quorum can approve an exploit
- D127: blind replication stays blind
- D130: verified causation needs replicated intervention
- D134: high-risk and field experiments need the quorum
- D153: budget renewal needs the quorum
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