CAIN-42 invariant · E41

E41-NEG2-human_approval: negotiation requirement human_approval cannot be omitted

Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 41 -- Machine Agency Exchange Fabric

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held   niche Transactions, markets & economics · family negotiation

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: negotiation requirement human_approval cannot be omitted. It is one of 470 invariants checked for CAIN-42 Evolution 41 -- Machine Agency Exchange 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.

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{'scenarios': 2, 'not_held': []}

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Related rules

• E41-RELSTATE-NEGOTIATING: relationship state NEGOTIATING exists and is never collapsed
• E41-RELSTATE-CONTRACTED: relationship state CONTRACTED exists and is never collapsed
• E41-RELSTATE-SETTLED: relationship state SETTLED exists and is never collapsed
• E41-NEG-identity: negotiation requires identity
• E41-NEG-attestation: negotiation requires attestation
• E41-NEG-evidence: negotiation requires evidence
• E41-NEG-capability: negotiation requires capability
• E41-NEG-authority: negotiation requires authority

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