CAIN-42 invariant · E23

META-I018: simulation ≠ deployment

Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 23 -- Governed Meta-Intelligence Fabric

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held   niche Prediction, world models & simulation

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CAIN-42 must always satisfy: simulation ≠ deployment. It is one of 253 invariants checked for CAIN-42 Evolution 23 -- Governed Meta-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.

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Related rules

• META-I048: model diversity does not imply independence
• META-I056: self-model answers all six self-knowledge questions
• META-I057: stale knowledge is reported STALE
• META-I066: verification in the reference architecture is independent of the model
• META-P013: every candidate's sandbox result is labelled SIMULATED (all depth-2 candidates)
• META-L002: META-002 SELF-MODELING IS NOT SELF-OWNERSHIP
• META-L019: META-019 HIGHER MODEL CONFIDENCE MUST NOT JUSTIFY GOVERNANCE BYPASS
• META-B-stronger_model: legitimate mutation 'stronger_model' stays eligible (governance does not block improvement)

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