CAIN-42 CAIN StudioCAIN-42 invariant · E21
D40: policy promotion requires governance
Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 21 -- Governed Open-Ended Intelligence Fabric
Last reviewed 2026-10-01
held niche Autonomy, control loops & recovery
What this rule means
CAIN-42 must always satisfy: policy promotion requires governance. 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
[
[
"KNOWLEDGE_DOES_NOT_BECOME_POLICY_AUTOMATICALLY"
],
[
"GOVERNANCE_QUORUM_NOT_MET"
]
]Check it yourself
Related rules
- D38: skill promotion requires governance
- D65: no self-improvement bypasses E8
- D104: a promotion is necessary but never sufficient
- D105: promotion scope is an intersection
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