CAIN-42 invariant · E24

NET-I029: negotiation cannot bypass policy

Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 24 -- Governed Agentic Internet Fabric

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held niche Transactions, markets & economics

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: negotiation cannot bypass policy. It is one of 298 invariants checked for CAIN-42 Evolution 24 -- Governed Agentic Internet 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

[
 "NEGOTIATION_CANNOT_TRADE_AUTHORITY",
 "NEGOTIATION_NOT_AGREED",
 "NEGOTIATION_TERM_UNKNOWN:authority"
]

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Related rules

NET-I030: contract fulfillment cannot bypass E8
NET-I033: computer-use actions reach E8
NET-I053: escrow conserves abstract units

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