CAIN-42 invariant · E33

E33-REP-delegation_behavior: reputation delegation_behavior needs evidence and mints no authority

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

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held niche Trust & reputation · family reputation

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: reputation delegation_behavior needs evidence and mints no 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

'delegation_behavior'

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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-REP-reliability: reputation reliability needs evidence and mints no authority
E33-REP-provenance: reputation provenance needs evidence and mints no authority
E33-REP-policy_compliance: reputation policy_compliance needs evidence and mints no authority
E33-REP-execution_quality: reputation execution_quality needs evidence and mints no authority
E33-REP-evidence_quality: reputation evidence_quality needs evidence and mints no authority
E33-REP-security_history: reputation security_history needs evidence and mints no authority
E33-REP-recovery_history: reputation recovery_history needs evidence and mints no authority
E33-REP-contract_behavior: reputation contract_behavior needs evidence and mints no authority

← E33-REP-recovery_history · all 581 · E33-REP-contract_behavior →

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