CAIN-42 Evolution 5: Project Sovereign Trial

Adversarial Agent Assurance, Verified Benchmarking, Tool-Call Mediation, and Evidence-Grounded IP Expansion — 2026-10-09

VERIFIED 182/182 PASS CLEAN-ROOM: INTACT IP NET BASE: $11,970,450 (HIGH: $21,630,200) FIRME AI VALUE: $14,452,450

Formal Invariant Properties: 16/16 PASS (tests/test_evolution5_properties.py)
Adversarial Attack Breakers: 24/24 PASS (tests/test_evolution5_breaker.py) across prompt injection, tool hijacking, harness tampering, and salami exfiltration
Full Multi-Evolution Regression: 182/182 PASS across Evolutions 1–5 in 3.69s
Independent Clean-Room Verification: 10/10 native samples accepted, 4/4 tampered samples rejected fail-closed via cain-mesh-verify/verify.py
Performance Benchmark: >11,000 ops/sec, <80µs p50 latency across all scenario, mediation, and oracle operations
IP Register: Register v36 — 102 total registered families (8 new Sovereign Trial families)

Code	Tier	Title & Core Mechanism	Module
EGAA	NOVEL	Evidence-Grounded Agentic Assurance Scenario Engine	`cain/trial/scenario.py`
HIEC	NOVEL	Harness Integrity & Anti-Gaming Control Sealer	`cain/trial/harness_integrity.py`
MCAT	NOVEL	Multi-Turn Causal Adversarial Trial Engine	`cain/trial/trial_engine.py`
MGTO	NOVEL	Multi-Modal Ground-Truth Outcome Oracle	`cain/trial/outcome_oracle.py`
LHSE	UNUSUAL	Long-Horizon Salami & Cumulative Risk Analyzer	`cain/trial/cumulative_risk.py`
DMVE	UNUSUAL	Differential & Mutation-Based Trial Verifier	`cain/trial/mutation_verifier.py`
RSAS	UNUSUAL	Risk-Stratified Assurance Scorecard & Operating Curves	`cain/trial/scorecard.py`
RTEB	ENGINEERING	Reproducible Trial Evidence Bundle & Verifier	`cain/trial/bundle.py`

Run the standalone, zero-dependency Python verifier on your own computer with zero CAIN imports:

python3 verify.py trial-bundle trial_evidence_bundle.json

trial_evidence_bundle.json — Complete signed trial evidence package
manifest.json — SHA-256 artifact manifest
REPRODUCE.txt — Plain-text reproduction instructions
REPRODUCE.txt — Reproduction steps (the shell script it names runs against the private source tree and is not published)
CAIN_EVOLUTION5_FINAL_REPORT.md — Comprehensive evolution report
CAIN_EVOLUTION5_IP_DEFENSIBILITY.md — Patent claims and IP defensibility analysis
CAIN_EVOLUTION5_RESEARCH.md — Frontier research synthesis
CAIN_IP_VALUE_RECALC_V36.json — Register v36 IP valuation model ($11.97M base net IP)
CAIN_FIRME_AI_AND_FOUNDER_VALUATION_V36.json — FIRME AI company & founder valuation ($14.45M base)