CAIN-42 CAIN StudioCAIN-42 invariant · E24
NET-I041: unknown trust remains unknown
Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 24 -- Governed Agentic Internet Fabric
Last reviewed 2026-10-01
held niche Trust & reputation
What this rule means
CAIN-42 must always satisfy: unknown trust remains unknown. 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
[
"NO_CROSS_DOMAIN_AUTHORITY_FOR_CAPABILITY",
"TRUST:TRUST_UNKNOWN:identity_trust"
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Related rules
- NET-I049: trust is a 14-dimension vector, never one score
- NET-I056: numeric trust translation is monotone and bounded
- NET-O-trust-provider: trust-provider outage denies instead of trusting
- NET-L06: NET-L06 SUCCESS IS NOT TRUST
- NET-L11: NET-L11 FEDERATION IS NOT UNLIMITED TRUST
- NET-L15: NET-L15 UNKNOWN NEVER BECOMES TRUSTED
← NET-I040 · all 298 · NET-I042 →
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