CAIN-42 CAIN StudioEvidence library · niche
Trust & reputation
How much each agent can be trusted, earned from evidence. 484 tested invariants.
Last reviewed 2026-10-01
484 of 484 held
Test families in this niche
trust_vector (204) · trust_dimension (72) · governability (41) · scorecard (28) · trust_object (27) · reputation (24) · experience_graph (22) · governability_vector (15) · machine_reputation (10) · behavior (9) · reassessment (2) · cross_domain (2) · relationship (2) · telemetry (1) · soc (1) · moat (1) · profile (1) · ip (1) · trust_state (1) · graph (1)
Where these come from
- CAIN-42 Evolution 26 -- Universal Machine Agency Trust Fabric: 258
- CAIN-42 Evolution 25 -- Universal Machine Agency Fabric: 72
- CAIN-42 Evolution 34 -- Proof-Carrying Machine Agency: 39
- CAIN-42 Evolution 32 -- Governed Autonomy Learning Fabric: 37
- CAIN-42 Evolution 31 -- Universal Proof-of-Governance Fabric: 15
- CAIN-42 Evolution 30 -- Governed Machine Autonomy Fabric: 12
- CAIN-42 Evolution 36 -- Machine Agency Exchange Fabric: 12
- CAIN-42 Evolution 33 -- Governed Agentic Operating Fabric: 11
- CAIN-42 Evolution 23 -- Governed Meta-Intelligence Fabric: 8
- CAIN-42 Evolution 24 -- Governed Agentic Internet Fabric: 7
- CAIN-42 Evolution 20 -- Governed Agentic Civilization Fabric: 3
- CAIN-42 Evolution 27 -- Agentic Internet Control Plane: 3
- CAIN-42 Evolution 35 -- Continuous Governance Intelligence Fabric: 2
- CAIN-42 Evolution 41 -- Machine Agency Exchange Fabric: 2
- CAIN-42 Evolution 19 -- Governed Autonomy Operating Fabric: 1
- CAIN-42 Evolution 38 -- Portable Proof-Carrying Machine Agency: 1
- CAIN-42 Evolution 42 -- Supreme Governed Agentic Infrastructure Platform: 1
Rules 451–484 of 484
| ID | Rule | Bundle | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| E34-REP-evidence_quality | reputation dimension evidence_quality carries no authority | E34 | held |
| E34-REP-policy_compliance | reputation dimension policy_compliance carries no authority | E34 | held |
| E34-REP-disclosure_quality | reputation dimension disclosure_quality carries no authority | E34 | held |
| E34-REP-verification_history | reputation dimension verification_history carries no authority | E34 | held |
| E34-INDEX-enforcement_coverage | governability index dimension enforcement_coverage is reported separately | E34 | held |
| E34-INDEX-identity_coverage | governability index dimension identity_coverage is reported separately | E34 | held |
| E34-INDEX-authority_coverage | governability index dimension authority_coverage is reported separately | E34 | held |
| E34-INDEX-evidence_coverage | governability index dimension evidence_coverage is reported separately | E34 | held |
| E34-INDEX-proof_coverage | governability index dimension proof_coverage is reported separately | E34 | held |
| E34-INDEX-revocation_coverage | governability index dimension revocation_coverage is reported separately | E34 | held |
| E34-INDEX-delegation_coverage | governability index dimension delegation_coverage is reported separately | E34 | held |
| E34-INDEX-protocol_coverage | governability index dimension protocol_coverage is reported separately | E34 | held |
| E34-INDEX-recovery_coverage | governability index dimension recovery_coverage is reported separately | E34 | held |
| E34-INDEX-independent_verification | governability index dimension independent_verification is reported separately | E34 | held |
| E34-INDEX-conformance | governability index dimension conformance is reported separately | E34 | held |
| E34-INDEX-residual_unknown_surface | governability index dimension residual_unknown_surface is reported separately | E34 | held |
| E35-PROFILE-governability | agentic profile dimension governability exists | E35 | held |
| E35-IP-machine_governability | IP primitive machine_governability exists | E35 | held |
| E36-REP-identity_continuity | reputation dimension identity_continuity carries no authority | E36 | held |
| E36-REP-governance_conformance | reputation dimension governance_conformance carries no authority | E36 | held |
| E36-REP-proof_integrity | reputation dimension proof_integrity carries no authority | E36 | held |
| E36-REP-execution_reliability | reputation dimension execution_reliability carries no authority | E36 | held |
| E36-REP-incident_history | reputation dimension incident_history carries no authority | E36 | held |
| E36-REP-recovery_quality | reputation dimension recovery_quality carries no authority | E36 | held |
| E36-REP-contract_performance | reputation dimension contract_performance carries no authority | E36 | held |
| E36-REP-delegation_discipline | reputation dimension delegation_discipline carries no authority | E36 | held |
| E36-REP-capability_stability | reputation dimension capability_stability carries no authority | E36 | held |
| E36-REP-evidence_quality | reputation dimension evidence_quality carries no authority | E36 | held |
| E36-TELEMETRY-reputation | telemetry metric reputation exists | E36 | held |
| E36-MOAT-machine_reputation | moat machine_reputation is technical only | E36 | held |
| trust_state | every 'trust state' invariant in this bundle (13 of 13 held) | E38 | held |
| E41-RELSTATE-TRUSTED | relationship state TRUSTED exists and is never collapsed | E41 | held |
| E41-REL2-TRUSTED | relationship state TRUSTED is reachable/held or explicitly refused | E41 | held |
| E42-GRAPH-trust | unified graph node kind trust exists | E42 | held |
Other niches
Consensus & distributed systems · Attacks, threats & containment · Identity, authority & delegation · Evidence, receipts & proofs · Memory, data & privacy · Prediction, world models & simulation · Transactions, markets & economics · Tools, MCP, protocols & adapters · Autonomy, control loops & recovery · Policy, law & governance · Supply chain, registry & lifecycle · Benchmarks, coverage & performance · Core guarantees
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