# AI Uses External Information When Forbidden

## Ontology Metadata

Code: ISS-0044
Version: ISS-0044@0.1.0
Ontology release: 0.1.0
Updated: 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z
Canonical URL: /workbench/issues/ai-uses-external-information-when-forbidden/

## Summary

The AI uses outside knowledge, sources, tools, memory, or assumptions after the task forbids external information or limits the allowed source set.

## 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-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.

## Declared Patterns

- 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-0340 — Overreach
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/overreach/
  - Summary: A structural condition where actions, effects, authority, or modifications extend beyond declared scope without authorization.
- PAT-0420 — Undeclared Side Effect
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/undeclared-side-effect/
  - Summary: A structural condition where an operation modifies regions outside its declared target scope without a declared propagation or side-effect rule.

## 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-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

None.

## Search Intents

- AI uses external information when forbidden
- AI used outside sources
- ChatGPT used outside knowledge when told not to
- AI ignored source boundary
- answer uses information not in provided file
- AI used external context