{
  "candidates": [
    {
      "effect": "Aggregating agents cannot create authority none of them held.",
      "id": "E36-IP-002",
      "implementation": "cain/govcollective/core.py",
      "name": "Authority-Non-Amplifying Collective Composition"
    },
    {
      "effect": "A collective is revalidated when a critical member's integrity fails.",
      "id": "E36-IP-003",
      "name": "Collective Integrity Root (E35-integrated)"
    },
    {
      "effect": "Correlated members are not counted as independent evidence.",
      "id": "E36-IP-004",
      "implementation": "coordination.independence_graph",
      "name": "Common-Dependency Independence Analysis"
    },
    {
      "effect": "Compromised collectives are rebuilt with fresh epochs; history is not silently continued.",
      "id": "E36-IP-007",
      "name": "Collective Revocation/Reconstitution"
    }
  ],
  "caveat": "No novelty/patentability claim; legal review required.",
  "prior_art_note": "BFT consensus, quorum systems and multi-agent coordination are established; the candidate is authority-bounded collective composition, not adjudicated novelty.",
  "self_assessed": true
}