CAIN-42 invariant · E21

D5: simulation cannot create authority

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

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held   niche Identity, authority & delegation

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: simulation cannot create authority. 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

[
 {
  "authority": "NONE",
  "confidence": 0.6875,
  "hypothesis": "h1",
  "independent_groups": 6,
  "independent_replications": 0,
  "observational_contradiction": 0,
  "observational_support": 0,
  "quality": "LOW_CONFIDENCE",
  "simulation_only": true,
  "third_party_reproductions": 0,
  "uncertainty": 0.625
 },
 [
  "SIMULATION_CANNOT_EXECUTE"
 ]
]

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Related rules

• D1: discovery cannot create authority
• D2: hypothesis cannot create authority
• D3: confidence cannot create authority
• D4: model prediction cannot create authority
• D6: experiment result cannot create authority
• D8: research reputation cannot create authority
• D9: intelligence improvement cannot create authority
• D10: benchmark performance cannot create authority

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