CAIN-42 invariant · E21

D29: correlated evidence cannot masquerade as independent evidence

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

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held   niche Evidence, receipts & proofs

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: correlated evidence cannot masquerade as independent evidence. 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

[
 [
  "CORRELATED_EVIDENCE"
 ],
 {
  "authority": "NONE",
  "blind_replication_broken": [],
  "committed_after_reveal": [],
  "contaminated": [
   "B"
  ],
  "independent_convergence": [],
  "independent_tracks": [
   "A"
  ],
  "premature_consensus_prevented": true,
  "problem": "q1",
  "tracks": [
   "A",
   "B",
   "R"
  ]
 }
]

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Related rules

• D12: contradictory evidence remains visible
• D21: discovery provenance is immutable
• D22: experiment provenance is immutable
• D23: model provenance is immutable
• D24: benchmark provenance is immutable
• D25: knowledge lineage is reconstructable
• D46: failed research remains evidence
• D53: missing provenance does not become trusted

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