CAIN-42 invariant · E33

E33-NEGOTIATE-capabilities: negotiation without capabilities is GOVERNANCE_UNKNOWN

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

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held niche Transactions, markets & economics · family negotiation

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: negotiation without capabilities is GOVERNANCE_UNKNOWN. 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

'capabilities'

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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-KIND-enter_contract: enter_contract is routed to E29 contract + escrow lifecycle
E33-KIND-computer_use_action: computer_use_action is executed only through E8
E33-BUDGET-action: action exhaustion stops and never self-replenishes
E33-BUDGET-time_ms: time_ms exhaustion stops and never self-replenishes
E33-BUDGET-compute: compute exhaustion stops and never self-replenishes
E33-BUDGET-financial: financial exhaustion stops and never self-replenishes
E33-BUDGET-capability: capability exhaustion stops and never self-replenishes
E33-BUDGET-delegation: delegation exhaustion stops and never self-replenishes

← E33-NEGOTIATE-identity · all 581 · E33-NEGOTIATE-authority →

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