CAIN-42 invariant · E21

D93: benchmark environments are version-bound

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

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held niche Supply chain, registry & lifecycle

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: benchmark environments are version-bound. 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

[
 [
  "BENCHMARK_LEAKAGE_TEST_DATA_IN_TRAINING"
 ],
 [
  "HIDDEN_TEST_EXPOSURE"
 ],
 [
  "BENCHMARK_TRAIN_TEST_OVERLAP"
 ]
]

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Related rules

D124: each lifecycle stage has one artefact kind
D155: a spawned research agent is evaluated before admission

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