CAIN-42 invariant · E23

META-S-budget-time: a child's time budget is carved out of the parent's

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

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held   niche Transactions, markets & economics

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: a child's time budget is carved out of the parent's. 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-S-budget-compute: a child's compute budget is carved out of the parent's
• META-S-budget-network: a child's network budget is carved out of the parent's
• META-S-budget-cost: a child's cost budget is carved out of the parent's
• META-S-budget-risk: a child's risk budget is carved out of the parent's
• META-S-canary-canary_latency_above_budget: canary trigger CANARY_LATENCY_ABOVE_BUDGET forces ROLLBACK

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