CAIN-42 invariant · E33

E33-CLOCK-world_model: a stale world_model invalidates authorization

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

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held niche Consensus & distributed systems · family clock

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: a stale world_model invalidates authorization. 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

'world_model'

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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.

Related rules

E33-CLOCK-state: a stale state invalidates authorization
E33-CLOCK-evidence: a stale evidence invalidates authorization
E33-CLOCK-policy: a stale policy invalidates authorization
E33-CLOCK-authorization: a stale authorization invalidates authorization
E33-CLOCK-identity: a stale identity invalidates authorization
E33-CLOCK-capability: a stale capability invalidates authorization
E33-CLOCK-revocation: a stale revocation invalidates authorization

← E33-CLOCK-authorization · all 581 · E33-CLOCK-identity →

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