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All Issues

Complete comprehensive list of all issues.

Spread & Escalation

Action Changed Something Else Too

An AI or agent action makes the requested change but also changes another object, field, file, state, rule, or workflow element that was not supposed to change.

Permissions & Approvals

Action Triggered by Confidence Score

A confidence score, certainty label, risk level, or probability-like value triggers an action without enough approval, calibration, or authority control.

Rules & Policies

Actual Policy Differs From Declared Policy

The policy the AI or workflow actually follows differs from the policy that is documented, declared, displayed, or expected.

Loops & Resolution

Agent Cannot Choose Tool Without Tool Result

The agent needs a tool result to choose the right tool, but cannot obtain that result without choosing a tool first.

Permissions & Approvals

Agent Gets Conflicting Tool Authority

An agent receives conflicting authority signals about whether, when, or how it may use a tool, connector, function, or integration.

Agents

Agent Keeps Expanding the Task

The agent repeatedly expands the task, plan, scope, or next-step list instead of completing the declared work.

Scope & Boundaries

Agent Modified Unrelated State

An agent changes state outside the requested task, target, file, record, workflow, or authorized scope.

Loops & Resolution

Agent Never Settles on Final Answer

The agent keeps revising, rechecking, planning, or branching instead of converging on a final answer or completed result.

Spread & Escalation

Agent Permission Expands Over Steps

An agent begins with limited permission but gains, assumes, or exercises broader authority as the workflow continues.

Agents

AI Adds Work Not Requested

The AI adds tasks, steps, analysis, checks, changes, or follow-up work that the user did not ask for.

Memory & Context

AI Forgets Earlier Constraints

A constraint, instruction, preference, or decision that should persist through the task stops affecting later output.

Memory & Context

AI Memory Has No Governance

Saved or persistent AI memory affects output without clear rules for ownership, scope, review, update, expiry, or removal.

Memory & Context

AI Memory Updated Without Asking

AI memory, saved context, preference, or durable state is updated without the user clearly asking for or approving that update.

Output

AI Output Breaks Parser

The AI output causes a parser, validator, importer, or structured-output consumer to fail.

Scope & Boundaries

AI Touches Unrelated Scope

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

Scope & Boundaries

AI Uses External Information When Forbidden

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

Output

Answer Has No Traceable Source Link

The answer makes a claim, recommendation, citation, or factual statement without a source link or trace path that allows the user to verify where it came from.

Output

Answer Has Too Many Paths

The answer presents too many possible paths, interpretations, options, or next steps without enough structure to choose among them.

Loops & Resolution

Approval Depends on Output That Needs Approval

A required approval depends on an AI output or workflow result that itself cannot be produced or trusted until approval is granted.

Permissions & Approvals

Automation Skips Required Approval

An automated AI or workflow step proceeds past an approval gate that should have been required before action.

Permissions & Approvals

Behavior Does Not Match Declared Role

The AI or agent behaves outside, below, or differently from the role, authority, responsibility, or permission posture declared for it.

Loops & Resolution

Cannot Identify Authoritative State

The user or workflow cannot tell which state, version, review result, decision, source, or output is currently authoritative.

Output

Citation Points to Wrong Source

A citation, reference, link, or source pointer is present, but it points to the wrong source, wrong passage, wrong document, or unsupported evidence.

Rules & Policies

Conflicting Instructions From Different Authorities

Instructions from different sources, roles, policies, prompts, tools, or workflow authorities conflict without a clear rule for which one governs.