CAIN-42 invariant · E28
E28-I20: every consequential governed execution reaches the E8 Action Commit boundary
Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 28 -- Portable Machine Agency & Execution Identity
Last reviewed 2026-10-01
held niche Policy, law & governance · family law
What this rule means
CAIN-42 must always satisfy: every consequential governed execution reaches the E8 Action Commit boundary. It is one of 90 invariants checked for CAIN-42 Evolution 28 -- Portable Machine Agency & Execution Identity. 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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Scope: E28 is an in-process library. It is not wired into the hosted gateway, MCPGate or the PBFT clusters; nothing on the three public sites runs it live.
Related rules
- E28-I1: portable identity does not imply portable authority
- E28-I2: delegated authority never exceeds parent authority (16 dimensions)
- E28-I3: expired authority does not resurrect
- E28-I4: revoked identity does not regain authority through replay
- E28-I5: model substitution triggers explicit continuity evaluation
- E28-I6: runtime substitution triggers explicit continuity evaluation
- E28-I7: capability expansion does not occur through identity migration
- E28-I8: consensus does not create authorization
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