CAIN-42 invariant · E23

META-I038: rollback cannot resurrect expired authority

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

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held   niche Identity, authority & delegation

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: rollback cannot resurrect expired authority. 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.

Recorded detail

[
 "EVOLUTION_AUTHORIZATION_EXPIRED"
]

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• META-I001: self-model cannot mint authority
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• META-I005: self-improvement cannot mint authority
• META-I007: architecture optimization cannot mint authority
• META-I008: objective optimization cannot mint authority
• META-I009: evaluation success cannot mint authority

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