CAIN-42 invariant · E41

I41-020: child authority does not exceed parent authority

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

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held niche Policy, law & governance · family law

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: child authority does not exceed parent authority. 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.

Recorded detail

{'scenarios': 20, 'not_held': []}

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Scope: An in-process TESTED library; not hosted. Federation, trust domains, economics and supply chains are modelled in-process; there are no external counterparties or organizations.

Related rules

I41-001: identity is not authority
I41-002: trust is not authorization
I41-003: capability is not permission
I41-004: discovery is not trust
I41-005: negotiation is not authorization
I41-006: contract is not authorization
I41-007: consensus is not authorization
I41-008: economic value is not authority

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