CAIN-42 invariant · E33

E33-CERT-protocol_adapter_tested: certificate claim protocol_adapter_tested is scoped and never authority

Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 33 -- Governed Agentic Operating Fabric

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held niche Evidence, receipts & proofs · family certificate

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: certificate claim protocol_adapter_tested is scoped and never authority. It is one of 581 invariants checked for CAIN-42 Evolution 33 -- Governed Agentic Operating 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

'protocol_adapter_tested'

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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).

Check it yourself

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Scope: An in-process TESTED library; not hosted; the operation kernel is not wired into the gateway, MCPGate or the clusters. The sidecar runs locally over stdio against a reference world.

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E33-EVENT-request_metadata: request_metadata events chain and verify
E33-EVENT-intent: intent events chain and verify
E33-EVENT-message: message events chain and verify
E33-EVENT-tool_request: tool_request events chain and verify
E33-EVENT-tool_response: tool_response events chain and verify
E33-EVENT-memory_mutation: memory_mutation events chain and verify
E33-EVENT-policy_mutation: policy_mutation events chain and verify
E33-EVENT-model_change: model_change events chain and verify

← E33-CERT-recovery_tested · all 581 · E33-CERTBAN-safe_ai →

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