CAIN-42 invariant · E21

D41: research budgets are bounded

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: research budgets are bounded. 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

[
 {
  "limits": {
   "agents": 3.0,
   "compute": 500.0,
   "data_queries": 20.0,
   "experiments": 30.0,
   "search_nodes": 200.0,
   "time": 3600.0,
   "tool_calls": 500.0
  },
  "program": "prog-1",
  "renewals": 0,
  "used": {
   "agents": 0.0,
   "compute": 0.0,
   "data_queries": 0.0,
   "experiments": 0.0,
   "search_nodes": 0.0,
   "time": 0.0,
   "tool_calls": 0.0
  }
 },
 [
  [
   "BUDGET_RENEWAL_EXCEEDS_CHARTER_CEILING:compute"
  ]
 ]
]

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Related rules

• D42: experiment budgets are bounded
• D43: compute budgets are bounded
• D44: agent creation budgets are bounded
• D45: tool budgets are bounded

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