CAIN-42 invariant · E31

E31-LAYER-DECISION: DECISION is UNKNOWN when its artifact is missing, never VERIFIED

Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 31 -- Universal Proof-of-Governance Fabric

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held   niche Policy, law & governance · family enforcement_layer

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: DECISION is UNKNOWN when its artifact is missing, never VERIFIED. It is one of 252 invariants checked for CAIN-42 Evolution 31 -- Universal Proof-of-Governance 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

('UNKNOWN', 'VERIFIED')

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Your browser downloads the bundle's SHA256SUMS manifest and the file(s) behind this page, hashes them with SHA-256 locally (WebCrypto), and compares. A match shows the record you are reading is the published one; it does not by itself prove who published it (see the signed claims registry and the bundle verifier for that).

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Related rules

• E31-L1: no identity, no governance proof
• E31-L2: no authority, no governance proof
• E31-L3: no authorization, no governed execution
• E31-L4: no enforcement, no claim of control
• E31-L5: no evidence, no verified outcome
• E31-L6: no proof, no verified governance claim
• E31-L7: a governance proof never creates authority
• E31-L8: a receipt never becomes permission

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