CAIN-42 invariant · E21

D83: authority does not become execution automatically

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: authority does not become execution automatically. 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

[
 [
  "NO_INSTITUTIONAL_AUTHORITY_FOR_CAPABILITY"
 ],
 [
  "LIMITED_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET_EXCEEDED"
 ]
]

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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
• D5: simulation cannot create authority
• D6: experiment result cannot create authority
• D8: research reputation cannot create authority
• D9: intelligence improvement cannot create authority

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