CAIN-42 invariant · E21

D74: unknown claims remain unknown

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: unknown claims remain unknown. 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",
  "candidate": "4c95ea5c8c7cc928ecdfcd8641bd2ba6936ff37eac712a506269d380a8e51768",
  "claim_accepted": true,
  "claimed": "",
  "corpus_version": "",
  "digest": "55994732480e915b8e456a55bf8f088b5a4f7ec847035781692e20fd4a0ca3a0",
  "scope": "",
  "state": "UNKNOWN"
 }
]

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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
• D64: no research institution bypasses E8
• D70: clean-room verification remains independent
• D73: unverified claims remain unverified

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