CAIN-42 CAIN StudioCAIN-42 evidence library
253 invariants
From CAIN-42 Evolution 23 -- Governed Meta-Intelligence Fabric.
Last reviewed 2026-10-01
| ID | Rule | Niche | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| META-I001 | self-model cannot mint authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I002 | architecture search cannot mint authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I003 | capability discovery cannot mint authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I004 | failure discovery cannot mint authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I005 | self-improvement cannot mint authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I006 | self-replication cannot mint authority | Consensus & distributed systems | held |
| META-I007 | architecture optimization cannot mint authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I008 | objective optimization cannot mint authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I009 | evaluation success cannot mint authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I010 | benchmark success cannot mint authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I011 | child authority ⊆ parent authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I012 | recursive authority cannot expand | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I013 | architecture replacement cannot expand authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I014 | model replacement cannot expand authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I015 | memory replacement cannot expand authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I016 | evolution proposal ≠ evolution authorization | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I017 | candidate architecture ≠ production architecture | Supply chain, registry & lifecycle | held |
| META-I018 | simulation ≠ deployment | Prediction, world models & simulation | held |
| META-I019 | canary ≠ production | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-I020 | rollback ≠ authority restoration | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I021 | unknown self-state cannot become allow | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-I022 | unknown dependency cannot become trusted | Trust & reputation | held |
| META-I023 | unknown capability cannot become executable | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I024 | unknown governance path cannot become safe | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-I025 | unknown execution path cannot become authorized | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I026 | objective change requires governance | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-I027 | evaluation change requires governance | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-I028 | policy change requires governance | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-I029 | authority change requires governance | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I030 | execution-path change requires governance | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-I031 | self-red-team cannot obtain production authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-I032 | attack simulation cannot alter production state | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-I033 | sandbox output cannot directly authorize production | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I034 | simulation credentials cannot become production credentials | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I035 | test identity cannot become production identity | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I036 | rollback cannot resurrect revoked identity | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I037 | rollback cannot resurrect revoked capability | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I038 | rollback cannot resurrect expired authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I039 | rollback cannot erase security evidence | Evidence, receipts & proofs | held |
| META-I040 | rollback cannot erase audit history | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-I041 | higher intelligence cannot bypass policy | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-I042 | higher accuracy cannot bypass policy | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-I043 | higher confidence cannot bypass policy | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-I044 | lower latency cannot bypass policy | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-I045 | lower cost cannot bypass policy | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-I046 | common-mode failures remain visible | Core guarantees | held |
| META-I047 | architectural diversity does not imply independence | Core guarantees | held |
| META-I048 | model diversity does not imply independence | Prediction, world models & simulation | held |
| META-I049 | provider diversity does not imply independence | Core guarantees | held |
| META-I050 | process diversity does not imply independence | Core guarantees | held |
| META-I051 | the legitimate promotion path commits through E8 | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-I052 | promotion never changes the governance ceiling | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-I053 | governed search rejects more-capable-but-less-governable candidates | Core guarantees | held |
| META-I054 | governability is a 12-dimension vector, never one number | Trust & reputation | held |
| META-I055 | the reference architecture has zero unknowns | Core guarantees | held |
| META-I056 | self-model answers all six self-knowledge questions | Prediction, world models & simulation | held |
| META-I057 | stale knowledge is reported STALE | Prediction, world models & simulation | held |
| META-I058 | withdrawn evidence degrades KNOWN to UNKNOWN | Evidence, receipts & proofs | held |
| META-I059 | proof reports say NOT_FORMALLY_PROVEN | Evidence, receipts & proofs | held |
| META-I060 | proof reports are signed by the evaluator, not the proposer | Evidence, receipts & proofs | held |
| META-I061 | every generation records the ten required fields | Core guarantees | held |
| META-I062 | checkpoints record the eleven required manifests | Evidence, receipts & proofs | held |
| META-I063 | a governed rollback restores the architecture and revokes the failed one | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-I064 | a legitimate runtime action commits through E8 | Tools, MCP, protocols & adapters | held |
| META-I065 | the E23 execution decision is bound to a recorded E19 decision | Core guarantees | held |
| META-I066 | verification in the reference architecture is independent of the model | Prediction, world models & simulation | held |
| META-I067 | benign changes have a bounded blast radius | Core guarantees | held |
| META-I068 | authority-path changes are flagged by the blast radius | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I069 | concentration is reported and is not authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I070 | evolution cascades require governance review for new attack surface | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-I071 | the red team is a separate identity with synthetic authority only | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-I072 | a legitimate objective change passes with a quorum excluding the proposer | Consensus & distributed systems | held |
| META-I073 | a finding completes the full lifecycle with evidence and earns credit | Evidence, receipts & proofs | held |
| META-I074 | structured traces are stored and carry no authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I075 | introspection carries no authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I076 | recovery requires verification | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-I077 | no non-authority input is read by the authority or promotion functions | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I078 | the E23 constitution has 25 numbered laws | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-I079 | runtime modes only contract authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-I080 | the evidence log is hash-chained and tamper-evident | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-P001 | every compiled candidate routes every execution path through AUTHORIZATION (all depth-2 candidates) | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-P002 | every compiled candidate binds ACTION to E8 (all depth-2 candidates) | Core guarantees | held |
| META-P003 | every compiled candidate keeps audit, evidence and rollback (all depth-2 candidates) | Evidence, receipts & proofs | held |
| META-P004 | every compiled candidate keeps at least one verifier (all depth-2 candidates) | Core guarantees | held |
| META-P005 | every compiled candidate's capabilities are inside the ceiling (all depth-2 candidates) | Core guarantees | held |
| META-P006 | every compiled candidate has bounded network access (all depth-2 candidates) | Core guarantees | held |
| META-P007 | every compiled candidate has bounded credentials (all depth-2 candidates) | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-P008 | every compiled candidate has bounded persistence (all depth-2 candidates) | Core guarantees | held |
| META-P009 | every compiled candidate has bounded subagents (all depth-2 candidates) | Core guarantees | held |
| META-P010 | every compiled candidate satisfies the hard governability dimensions (all depth-2 candidates) | Trust & reputation | held |
| META-P011 | every refused candidate fails at least one hard governability dimension or integrity check (all depth-2 candidates) | Trust & reputation | held |
| META-P012 | no candidate's sandbox result carries authority (all depth-2 candidates) | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-P013 | every candidate's sandbox result is labelled SIMULATED (all depth-2 candidates) | Prediction, world models & simulation | held |
| META-P014 | the sandbox is deterministic for every candidate (all depth-2 candidates) | Core guarantees | held |
| META-P015 | a diff is material exactly when components or edges changed (all depth-2 candidates) | Tools, MCP, protocols & adapters | held |
| META-P016 | no candidate diff carries authority (all depth-2 candidates) | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-P017 | no candidate unknown-scan carries authority (all depth-2 candidates) | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-P018 | compiled capabilities are always ceiling ∩ declared (all depth-2 candidates) | Core guarantees | held |
| META-P019 | the architecture digest changes whenever a component changes (all depth-2 candidates) | Core guarantees | held |
| META-P020 | every dependency report carries no authority (all depth-2 candidates) | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-L001 | META-001 SELF-KNOWLEDGE IS NOT AUTHORITY | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-L002 | META-002 SELF-MODELING IS NOT SELF-OWNERSHIP | Prediction, world models & simulation | held |
| META-L003 | META-003 SELF-IMPROVEMENT IS NOT SELF-AUTHORIZATION | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-L004 | META-004 INTELLIGENCE GAIN IS NOT AUTHORITY GAIN | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-L005 | META-005 CAPABILITY DISCOVERY IS NOT CAPABILITY PERMISSION | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-L006 | META-006 ARCHITECTURE DISCOVERY IS NOT DEPLOYMENT AUTHORIZATION | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-L007 | META-007 OPTIMIZATION IS NOT GOVERNANCE | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-L008 | META-008 REASONING ABOUT GOVERNANCE IS NOT AUTHORITY OVER GOVERNANCE | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-L009 | META-009 DISCOVERING A POLICY WEAKNESS IS NOT PERMISSION TO EXPLOIT IT | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-L010 | META-010 DISCOVERING AN E8 WEAKNESS IS NOT PERMISSION TO BYPASS E8 | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-L011 | META-011 DISCOVERING A CAIN BUG IS NOT PERMISSION TO MODIFY GOVERNANCE STATE | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-L012 | META-012 MODEL IMPROVEMENT MUST NOT SILENTLY CHANGE AUTHORITY | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-L013 | META-013 ARCHITECTURE REPLACEMENT MUST NOT SILENTLY CHANGE AUTHORITY | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-L014 | META-014 MEMORY RESTRUCTURING MUST NOT SILENTLY CHANGE AUTHORITY | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-L015 | META-015 SELF-OPTIMIZATION MUST NOT REMOVE GOVERNANCE CHECKS | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-L016 | META-016 PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION MUST NOT REMOVE SECURITY BOUNDARIES | Benchmarks, coverage & performance | held |
| META-L017 | META-017 LOWER LATENCY MUST NOT JUSTIFY GOVERNANCE BYPASS | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-L018 | META-018 HIGHER ACCURACY MUST NOT JUSTIFY GOVERNANCE BYPASS | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-L019 | META-019 HIGHER MODEL CONFIDENCE MUST NOT JUSTIFY GOVERNANCE BYPASS | Prediction, world models & simulation | held |
| META-L020 | META-020 EMERGENT CAPABILITY MUST REMAIN GOVERNED | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-L021 | META-021 UNKNOWN SELF-MODIFICATION STATE MUST NEVER BECOME ALLOW | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-L022 | META-022 UNVERIFIED EVOLUTION MUST NEVER BECOME PRODUCTION | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-L023 | META-023 FAILED EVOLUTION MUST NEVER BECOME THE ACTIVE GOVERNANCE PATH | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-L024 | META-024 ROLLBACK RESTORES THE GOVERNED STATE, NOT REVOKED AUTHORITY | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-L025 | META-025 NO EVOLUTION MAY REMOVE THE ABILITY TO AUDIT THAT EVOLUTION | Tools, MCP, protocols & adapters | held |
| META-C-direct_tool_edge | hostile mutation 'direct_tool_edge' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-model_to_action | hostile mutation 'model_to_action' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-drop_audit | hostile mutation 'drop_audit' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-drop_rollback | hostile mutation 'drop_rollback' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-drop_evidence | hostile mutation 'drop_evidence' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-drop_authorization | hostile mutation 'drop_authorization' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-rebind_authorization | hostile mutation 'rebind_authorization' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-rebind_action | hostile mutation 'rebind_action' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-unbounded_network | hostile mutation 'unbounded_network' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-new_egress | hostile mutation 'new_egress' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-unbounded_credentials | hostile mutation 'unbounded_credentials' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-unbounded_persistence | hostile mutation 'unbounded_persistence' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-unbounded_subagents | hostile mutation 'unbounded_subagents' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-many_subagents | hostile mutation 'many_subagents' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-widen_capabilities | hostile mutation 'widen_capabilities' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-wildcard_capability | hostile mutation 'wildcard_capability' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-memorize_benchmark | hostile mutation 'memorize_benchmark' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-train_on_held_out | hostile mutation 'train_on_held_out' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-eval_override | hostile mutation 'eval_override' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-unpinned | hostile mutation 'unpinned' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-decision_bypasses_auth | hostile mutation 'decision_bypasses_auth' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-tool_side_channel | hostile mutation 'tool_side_channel' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-subagent_path | hostile mutation 'subagent_path' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-audit_detached | hostile mutation 'audit_detached' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-C-drop_verifier | hostile mutation 'drop_verifier' is refused and never gains authority | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-B-stronger_model | legitimate mutation 'stronger_model' stays eligible (governance does not block improvement) | Prediction, world models & simulation | held |
| META-B-second_verifier | legitimate mutation 'second_verifier' stays eligible (governance does not block improvement) | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-B-better_retrieval | legitimate mutation 'better_retrieval' stays eligible (governance does not block improvement) | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-B-better_planner | legitimate mutation 'better_planner' stays eligible (governance does not block improvement) | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-B-pin_versions | legitimate mutation 'pin_versions' stays eligible (governance does not block improvement) | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-B-cache_memory | legitimate mutation 'cache_memory' stays eligible (governance does not block improvement) | Memory, data & privacy | held |
| META-B-drop_simulator | legitimate mutation 'drop_simulator' stays eligible (governance does not block improvement) | Prediction, world models & simulation | held |
| META-S-dim-authorization_integrity | governability dimension 'authorization_integrity' drops when its property is violated | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-dim-execution_enforcement | governability dimension 'execution_enforcement' drops when its property is violated | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-S-dim-observability | governability dimension 'observability' drops when its property is violated | Trust & reputation | held |
| META-S-dim-provenance | governability dimension 'provenance' drops when its property is violated | Evidence, receipts & proofs | held |
| META-S-dim-reproducibility | governability dimension 'reproducibility' drops when its property is violated | Trust & reputation | held |
| META-S-dim-rollbackability | governability dimension 'rollbackability' drops when its property is violated | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-dim-containment | governability dimension 'containment' drops when its property is violated | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-S-dim-auditability | governability dimension 'auditability' drops when its property is violated | Trust & reputation | held |
| META-S-dim-policy_compliance | governability dimension 'policy_compliance' drops when its property is violated | Policy, law & governance | held |
| META-S-dim-uncertainty_visibility | governability dimension 'uncertainty_visibility' drops when its property is violated | Trust & reputation | held |
| META-S-dim-failure_recovery | governability dimension 'failure_recovery' drops when its property is violated | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-dim-authority_boundedness | governability dimension 'authority_boundedness' drops when its property is violated | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-proof-unit | proof level UNIT fails for a candidate built to fail it | Evidence, receipts & proofs | held |
| META-S-proof-integration | proof level INTEGRATION fails for a candidate built to fail it | Evidence, receipts & proofs | held |
| META-S-proof-property | proof level PROPERTY fails for a candidate built to fail it | Evidence, receipts & proofs | held |
| META-S-proof-regression | proof level REGRESSION fails for a candidate built to fail it | Evidence, receipts & proofs | held |
| META-S-proof-performance | proof level PERFORMANCE fails for a candidate built to fail it | Evidence, receipts & proofs | held |
| META-S-proof-security | proof level SECURITY fails for a candidate built to fail it | Evidence, receipts & proofs | held |
| META-S-proof-governance | proof level GOVERNANCE fails for a candidate built to fail it | Evidence, receipts & proofs | held |
| META-S-proof-replay-adversarial | REPLAY and ADVERSARIAL pass for a legitimate candidate | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-S-registry-experimental | registry state EXPERIMENTAL has no self-loop and PRODUCTION only via CANARY | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-registry-sandbox | registry state SANDBOX has no self-loop and PRODUCTION only via CANARY | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-registry-adversarial_tested | registry state ADVERSARIAL_TESTED has no self-loop and PRODUCTION only via CANARY | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-S-registry-verified | registry state VERIFIED has no self-loop and PRODUCTION only via CANARY | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-registry-canary | registry state CANARY has no self-loop and PRODUCTION only via CANARY | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-registry-production | registry state PRODUCTION has no self-loop and PRODUCTION only via CANARY | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-registry-deprecated | registry state DEPRECATED has no self-loop and PRODUCTION only via CANARY | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-registry-revoked | registry state REVOKED has no self-loop and PRODUCTION only via CANARY | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-self-what-i-know | an assertion answering 'WHAT I KNOW' lands in exactly that answer | Core guarantees | held |
| META-S-self-what-i-think-i-know | an assertion answering 'WHAT I THINK I KNOW' lands in exactly that answer | Core guarantees | held |
| META-S-self-what-i-observed | an assertion answering 'WHAT I OBSERVED' lands in exactly that answer | Core guarantees | held |
| META-S-self-what-i-inferred | an assertion answering 'WHAT I INFERRED' lands in exactly that answer | Core guarantees | held |
| META-S-self-what-i-predict | an assertion answering 'WHAT I PREDICT' lands in exactly that answer | Prediction, world models & simulation | held |
| META-S-self-what-i-do-not-know | an assertion answering 'WHAT I DO NOT KNOW' lands in exactly that answer | Core guarantees | held |
| META-S-budget-compute | a child's compute budget is carved out of the parent's | Transactions, markets & economics | held |
| META-S-budget-memory | a child's memory budget is carved out of the parent's | Memory, data & privacy | held |
| META-S-budget-time | a child's time budget is carved out of the parent's | Transactions, markets & economics | held |
| META-S-budget-network | a child's network budget is carved out of the parent's | Transactions, markets & economics | held |
| META-S-budget-cost | a child's cost budget is carved out of the parent's | Transactions, markets & economics | held |
| META-S-budget-risk | a child's risk budget is carved out of the parent's | Transactions, markets & economics | held |
| META-S-unknown-unknown_capability | the self-unknown engine surfaces unknown_capability as a first-class state | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-unknown-unknown_dependency | the self-unknown engine surfaces unknown_dependency as a first-class state | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-unknown-unknown_execution_path | the self-unknown engine surfaces unknown_execution_path as a first-class state | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-unknown-unknown_authority_path | the self-unknown engine surfaces unknown_authority_path as a first-class state | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-unknown-unknown_model_behavior | the self-unknown engine surfaces unknown_model_behavior as a first-class state | Prediction, world models & simulation | held |
| META-S-unknown-unknown_memory_source | the self-unknown engine surfaces unknown_memory_source as a first-class state | Memory, data & privacy | held |
| META-S-unknown-unknown_policy_interaction | the self-unknown engine surfaces unknown_policy_interaction as a first-class state | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-unknown-unknown_failure_mode | the self-unknown engine surfaces unknown_failure_mode as a first-class state | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-unknown-unknown_external_dependency | the self-unknown engine surfaces unknown_external_dependency as a first-class state | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-unknown-unknown_physical_consequence | the self-unknown engine surfaces unknown_physical_consequence as a first-class state | Prediction, world models & simulation | held |
| META-S-unknown-unknown_security_boundary | the self-unknown engine surfaces unknown_security_boundary as a first-class state | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-unknown-unknown_third_party_component | the self-unknown engine surfaces unknown_third_party_component as a first-class state | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-quorum-none | board signers [] authorize iff at least 2 of 3 | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-quorum-0 | board signers [0] authorize iff at least 2 of 3 | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-quorum-1 | board signers [1] authorize iff at least 2 of 3 | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-quorum-2 | board signers [2] authorize iff at least 2 of 3 | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-quorum-01 | board signers [0, 1] authorize iff at least 2 of 3 | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-quorum-02 | board signers [0, 2] authorize iff at least 2 of 3 | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-quorum-12 | board signers [1, 2] authorize iff at least 2 of 3 | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-quorum-012 | board signers [0, 1, 2] authorize iff at least 2 of 3 | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-mode-verification_degraded | mode VERIFICATION_DEGRADED removes consequential capabilities | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-mode-degraded | mode DEGRADED removes consequential capabilities | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-mode-read_only | mode READ_ONLY removes consequential capabilities | Core guarantees | held |
| META-S-mode-halted | mode HALTED removes consequential capabilities | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-sandbox-plan | improving the plan component does not lower plan capability | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-sandbox-retrieve | improving the retrieve component does not lower retrieve capability | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-sandbox-verify | improving the verify component does not lower verify capability | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-sandbox-reason | improving the reason component does not lower reason capability | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-evidence-tamper-n | tampering evidence field 'n' breaks the chain | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-S-evidence-tamper-kind | tampering evidence field 'kind' breaks the chain | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-S-evidence-tamper-data | tampering evidence field 'data' breaks the chain | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-S-evidence-tamper-prev | tampering evidence field 'prev' breaks the chain | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-S-evidence-tamper-digest | tampering evidence field 'digest' breaks the chain | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-S-canary-canary_worse_than_production | canary trigger CANARY_WORSE_THAN_PRODUCTION forces ROLLBACK | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-canary-observed_gain_below_predicted | canary trigger OBSERVED_GAIN_BELOW_PREDICTED forces ROLLBACK | Prediction, world models & simulation | held |
| META-S-canary-canary_latency_above_budget | canary trigger CANARY_LATENCY_ABOVE_BUDGET forces ROLLBACK | Transactions, markets & economics | held |
| META-S-canary-canary_governance_violation | canary trigger CANARY_GOVERNANCE_VIOLATION forces ROLLBACK | Autonomy, control loops & recovery | held |
| META-S-cascade-model | losing 'model' never widens authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-cascade-context | losing 'context' never widens authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-cascade-memory | losing 'memory' never widens authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-cascade-retrieval | losing 'retrieval' never widens authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-cascade-reasoner | losing 'reasoner' never widens authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-cascade-planner | losing 'planner' never widens authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-cascade-simulator | losing 'simulator' never widens authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-cascade-critic | losing 'critic' never widens authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-cascade-verifier | losing 'verifier' never widens authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-cascade-decision | losing 'decision' never widens authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-cascade-authorization | losing 'authorization' never widens authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-cascade-action | losing 'action' never widens authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-cascade-audit | losing 'audit' never widens authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-cascade-evidence | losing 'evidence' never widens authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-cascade-rollback | losing 'rollback' never widens authority | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-self-model-authority | the self-model refuses and does not store an authority assertion | Identity, authority & delegation | held |
| META-S-self-model-evidence | the self-model refuses and does not store unevidenced knowledge | Prediction, world models & simulation | held |
| META-S-bench-targets | every adversarial scenario names an invariant or law that exists | Attacks, threats & containment | held |
| META-S-objective-constraints | the objective carries every hard governance constraint | Policy, law & governance | held |
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