CAIN-42 invariant · E29
E29-P40: organization budgets are booked on every layer of the path
Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 29 -- Governed Agentic Internet Transaction Fabric
Last reviewed 2026-10-01
held niche Benchmarks, coverage & performance · family property
What this rule means
CAIN-42 must always satisfy: organization budgets are booked on every layer of the path. It is one of 106 invariants checked for CAIN-42 Evolution 29 -- Governed Agentic Internet Transaction 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
{'acme-holding': {'parent': '', 'ceiling': 50000, 'spent': 600, 'kind': 'institution'}, 'acme': {'parent': 'acme-holding', 'ceiling': 20000, 'spent': 600, 'kind': 'organization'}, 'acme-procurement': {'parent': 'acme', 'ceiling': 5000, 'speVerify it in your browser
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Scope: In-process library; not wired into the hosted gateway, MCPGate or the PBFT clusters.
Related rules
- E29-P01: the end-to-end procurement transaction completes every acceptance step
- E29-P02: every ledger TRANSFER is backed by an ALLOW receipt that reached E8 for the same transaction
- E29-P03: the ledger is hash-chained, signed and conserves value
- E29-P04: the stage records of the transaction verify as a signed hash chain
- E29-P05: the transaction envelope is issued at AUTHORIZE and re-issued at RECORD with the evidence root
- E29-P06: discovery never reports trust
- E29-P07: counterparty risk has thirteen dimensions and no score
- E29-P08: reputation has thirteen dimensions and no aggregate
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