# AI Touches Unrelated Scope

## Ontology Metadata

Code: ISS-0045
Version: ISS-0045@0.1.0
Ontology release: 0.1.0
Updated: 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z
Canonical URL: /workbench/issues/ai-touches-unrelated-scope/

## Summary

The AI affects, edits, analyzes, changes, or reasons over material outside the scope of the requested task.

## Category

- CAT-0100 — Scope & Boundaries
  - URL: /workbench/categories/scope-and-boundaries/
  - Summary: Problems where tasks, files, context, retrieval, permissions, actions, or outputs cross limits, use outside information, or lack clear operating boundaries.

## Primary Pattern

- PAT-0340 — Overreach
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/overreach/
  - Summary: A structural condition where actions, effects, authority, or modifications extend beyond declared scope without authorization.

## Declared Patterns

- PAT-0340 — Overreach
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/overreach/
  - Summary: A structural condition where actions, effects, authority, or modifications extend beyond declared scope without authorization.
- PAT-0140 — Boundary Leakage
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/boundary-leakage/
  - Summary: A structural condition where effects, permissions, state, data, or authority cross a declared boundary without an authorized exception.
- PAT-0400 — Unbounded Scope
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/unbounded-scope/
  - Summary: A structural condition where an operation, authority, rule, or expansion has no declared upper bound, boundary, or termination condition.

## Derived Primary Lenses

- LEN-0120 — Boundary Compliance Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/boundary-compliance-lens/
  - Summary: Evaluates observed structure against declared boundary posture, including allow, block, and exception rules.
- LEN-0160 — Constraint Sufficiency Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/constraint-sufficiency-lens/
  - Summary: Evaluates whether declared constraints are sufficient to eliminate structural degrees of freedom.
- LEN-0220 — Isolation Boundary Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/isolation-boundary-lens/
  - Summary: Evaluates whether structural constraints, effects, and regions remain contained within declared boundaries.
- LEN-0240 — Overreach Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/overreach-lens/
  - Summary: Detects structure that exceeds declared scope or authority reach.
- LEN-0250 — Propagation Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/propagation-lens/
  - Summary: Traces how structural declarations, effects, or state changes propagate across boundaries or stages.

## Derived Secondary Lenses

- LEN-0190 — Escalation Gradient Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/escalation-gradient-lens/
  - Summary: Measures structural growth or intensification across sequential executions, states, or transitions.

## Search Intents

- AI touches unrelated scope
- AI changed unrelated content
- agent edited files not requested
- AI affected something outside task
- AI included unrelated scope
- agent went outside requested area