CAIN-42 Evolution 41 — Machine Agency Exchange

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Machines discover, negotiate, contract and exchange work across organizations; CAIN governs the relationship. No machine creates authority for itself or another. Units are synthetic.

Invariants 470/470; scenarios 1180/1180 held; mutation 10/10; tests 12 passed; clean-room verifier INTACT (1303/1303).

The machine agency loop

StepResult
DISCOVEROK
IDENTIFYOK
ATTESTOK
ASSESSOK
TRUST_NEGOTIATIONOK
HANDSHAKEOK
CONTRACTOK
WORK_INTENTOK
WORK_LEASEOK
AUTHORIZEOK
EXECUTEOK
COMPLETION_RECEIPTOK
AGENCY_RECEIPTOK
FEDERATIONOK
SYSTEMICOK
CIRCUIT_BREAKEROK
LEARNOK
FAILURE_TO_TESTOK
REASSESSOK
REVOKE_RENEWOK

Adversarial categories

CategoryHeld
attest18/18
breaker28/28
conformance32/32
contract20/20
discovery30/30
dispute20/20
f2t16/16
federation14/14
handshake30/30
law290/290
learning10/10
negotiation70/70
receipt50/50
reject60/60
relationship236/236
reputation20/20
revocation20/20
scale20/20
settlement20/20
sybil16/16
systemic14/14
threat66/66
time_machine12/12
translation14/14
work54/54