CAIN-42 MCPGate

CAIN-42 Evolution 9 — Universal Agent Passport, Provenance & Capability Supply-Chain

TESTED PRE-PRODUCTION no third-party review

A cryptographically verifiable passport, AgentBOM, provenance graph, capability/delegation/memory provenance, continuous attestation and revocation for L5-class agents — the provenance and composition layer supporting Evolutions 1–8. MEMORY DOES NOT EQUAL AUTHORITY. UNKNOWN MUST REMAIN UNKNOWN.

Invariants P1–P15

#InvariantResult
P1IDENTITY INTEGRITY: an unsigned passport never verifies PASSHOLDS
P2PROVENANCE INTEGRITY: the provenance chain is tamper-evidentHOLDS
P3CAPABILITY PROVENANCE: an incomplete chain is UNPROVENHOLDS
P4AUTHORITY PROVENANCE: authority resolves only to verified source eventsHOLDS
P5MEMORY CANNOT MINT AUTHORITYHOLDS
P6DELEGATION CANNOT INCREASE AUTHORITYHOLDS
P7REVOCATION PROPAGATESHOLDS
P8MATERIAL MUTATION INVALIDATES ATTESTATIONHOLDS
P9MATERIAL MUTATION INVALIDATES BOUND AUTHORIZATIONHOLDS
P10UNKNOWN PROVENANCE CANNOT BECOME TRUSTED AUTOMATICALLYHOLDS
P11AGENTBOM MISMATCH CANNOT SILENTLY PASSHOLDS
P12PASSPORT REPLAY IS REJECTEDHOLDS
P13EVIDENCE CANNOT SILENTLY TRUNCATEHOLDS
P14COLLECTIVE AUTHORITY CANNOT EXCEED COLLECTIVE POLICYHOLDS
P15EXTERNAL TRUST REQUIRES AN EXPLICIT TRUST ROOTHOLDS

In-process latency (microseconds, this build host; exact conditions in PERFORMANCE.json)

Casep50p95p99maxsamples
passport_verify169.797405.9312583.53626632.5612000
attestation_evaluate0.3130.3310.36910.2542000
bom_verify0.3360.3670.40511.2192000
provenance_verify138.388221.0721196.30613972.9722000
capability_prove1.8842.2983.1859154.8822000
kernel_commit_deny178.964677.8173313.11116130.732000

What this does not show: hardware attestation, a vulnerability database, framework adapter support, or any third-party review. Attestation is over software/configuration digests and a supplied measurement.

Signer (ephemeral): GiCSufxPJY7zcwLcZ+BMtu9NES+f+ZyiQdVAlQsK7mU=

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