CAIN-42 invariant · E27

I-DISC-8: discovery grants no authority

Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 27 -- Agentic Internet Control Plane

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held   niche Tools, MCP, protocols & adapters · family discovery

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: discovery grants no authority. It is one of 757 invariants checked for CAIN-42 Evolution 27 -- Agentic Internet Control Plane. 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

{'known': True, 'who': 'a1', 'kind': 'agent', 'operator': 'acme', 'trust_domain': 'td', 'capabilities': ['read'], 'protocols': ['mcp'], 'authorization_methods': [], 'attestation': 'UNKNOWN', 'governan

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Related rules

• I-DISC-0: discovery grants no authority
• I-DISC-1: discovery grants no authority
• I-DISC-2: discovery grants no authority
• I-DISC-3: discovery grants no authority
• I-DISC-4: discovery grants no authority
• I-DISC-5: discovery grants no authority
• I-DISC-6: discovery grants no authority
• I-DISC-7: discovery grants no authority

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