CAIN-42 invariant · E42

E42-EVOSTAGE-AUTHORIZE: governed evolution stage AUTHORIZE exists

Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 42 -- Supreme Governed Agentic Infrastructure Platform

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held niche Autonomy, control loops & recovery · family evolution

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: governed evolution stage AUTHORIZE exists. It is one of 438 invariants checked for CAIN-42 Evolution 42 -- Supreme Governed Agentic Infrastructure Platform. 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

'AUTHORIZE'

Products this protects

CAIN Conformance — Conformance testing for any system that claims to govern agents.
CAIN Edge — CAIN decisions on devices at the edge, close to where agents act.
CAIN Enterprise — One package of CAIN for a whole organisation.
CAIN Evolution — Lets CAIN improve its own rules, only with signed approval.
CAIN Gateway — A packaged CAIN gateway for any network.
CAIN Passport — Passports that let agents carry trust from one system to another.
CAIN Research — Open research on governing autonomous AI.
CAIN Studio — The next generation of CAIN Studio.
CAIN Transactions — Governed transactions between agents.
CAIN Trust Network — A network of organisations that trust each other's agents.
CAIN Verify — One-click verification of any CAIN evidence.
ClawX — The next CLAWX: proof and onboarding for agent builders.
MCPGate — The next MCPGate: a packaged enforcement gate.

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Check it yourself

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Scope: E42 is an in-process TESTED integration library. It wires existing modules into one canonical kernel, ABI, action, evidence and receipt path; it does not make external systems behave.

Related rules

E42-GRAPH-evolution: unified graph node kind evolution exists
E42-EVOSTAGE-DISCOVER: governed evolution stage DISCOVER exists
E42-EVOSTAGE-HYPOTHESIZE: governed evolution stage HYPOTHESIZE exists
E42-EVOSTAGE-EXPERIMENT: governed evolution stage EXPERIMENT exists
E42-EVOSTAGE-EVALUATE: governed evolution stage EVALUATE exists
E42-EVOSTAGE-VERIFY: governed evolution stage VERIFY exists
E42-EVOSTAGE-PROPOSE: governed evolution stage PROPOSE exists
E42-EVOSTAGE-SANDBOX: governed evolution stage SANDBOX exists

← E42-EVOSTAGE-COMPARE · all 438 · E42-EVOSTAGE-DEPLOY →

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