CAIN-42 invariant · E30

E30-L14: no agent promotes its own autonomy level

Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 30 -- Governed Machine Autonomy Fabric

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held   niche Policy, law & governance · family law

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: no agent promotes its own autonomy level. It is one of 166 invariants checked for CAIN-42 Evolution 30 -- Governed Machine Autonomy 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.

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Related rules

• E30-L1: no verified identity, no trust
• E30-L2: no authority, no authorization
• E30-L3: no authorization, no execution
• E30-L4: no enforcement, no claim of control
• E30-L5: no evidence, no trust upgrade
• E30-L6: unknown never becomes verified
• E30-L7: perception is not reality; confidence is not truth
• E30-L8: memory never mints authority

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