CAIN-42 invariant · E21

D64: no research institution bypasses E8

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: no research institution bypasses E8. 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

[
 [
  "INSTITUTION_CONTAINED",
  "NO_INSTITUTIONAL_AUTHORITY_FOR_CAPABILITY"
 ],
 [
  "AGENT_DELEGATION_EXPIRED",
  "CREDENTIAL_REVOKED_OR_UNKNOWN",
  "DISSOLVED_INSTITUTION_CANNOT_EXECUTE",
  "MEMBERSHIP_REVOKED",
  "NO_INSTITUTIONAL_AUTHORITY_FOR_CAPABILITY",
  "TERMINATED_AGENT"
 ]
]

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Related rules

• D11: unsupported claims remain unsupported
• D13: failed experiments remain auditable
• D18: hypothetical remains hypothetical
• D52: unknown does not become allow
• D61: no experiment bypasses E8
• D70: clean-room verification remains independent
• D73: unverified claims remain unverified
• D74: unknown claims remain unknown

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