CAIN-42 claim

C42-E32-NO-AUTHORITY

no learning path widens authority: every promoted configuration only restricts, drift is re-derived independently, and forged expansion signatures are refused

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

TESTED

The claim

no learning path widens authority: every promoted configuration only restricts, drift is re-derived independently, and forged expansion signatures are refused

Level TESTED is how far the evidence goes: TESTED means a test suite exercised it, LIVE means it was observed on the hosted system. Nothing is claimed beyond its level.

Evidence files

• DRIFT.json
• CONFIG_CHAIN.json

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Limitations of this bundle

• An in-process TESTED library; not hosted; not wired into the gateway, MCPGate or the clusters.
• Harm labels come from a SIMULATED oracle over a synthetic workload with four attack families; nothing has been learned from production traffic, and the measured harm reduction is a simulation result.
• What learning may change is a restrict-only overlay (deny prefixes, injection markers, secret patterns, a rate limit, a world-model gate); learning cannot change E30/E28/E25/E8 policy or authority.
• The world models are small statistical learners (naive Bayes and Beta-Bernoulli) over action features; they are not neural world models and do not model physics.
• The hidden evaluation is a committed synthetic workload; it is hidden from the learning code in this process, not from an adversary with access to the host.
• The governance scientist is a bounded rule-based component, not an autonomous AI researcher.
• Research ingestion is implemented but holds no external sources.
• Human approval is one registered reviewer key in the same process.
• Scale rows are synthetic and in-process; the 100,000-episode row runs learning without execution and the 1,000,000 row is hashing only.
• Hardware attestation UNKNOWN; no external review.

From CAIN-42 Evolution 32 -- Governed Autonomy Learning Fabric.