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All Issues

Complete comprehensive list of all issues.

Spread & Escalation

Small Error Spreads Into Large Failure

A small AI, output, routing, or workflow error propagates through later steps until it becomes a larger failure.

Spread & Escalation

Small Issue Keeps Escalating

A small issue, warning, uncertainty, or correction keeps increasing in severity, scope, or workflow impact across later steps.

Memory & Context

Stale Context Affects Output

Old context, prior instructions, outdated references, or earlier task state continue to affect output after they should no longer apply.

Scope & Boundaries

Task Has No Clear Limit

The task does not declare where the AI should stop, what is out of scope, or what counts as enough work.

Memory & Context

Task Progress Is Lost Midway

The AI loses track of completed work, prior decisions, current position, or remaining steps before the task is finished.

MCP, Tools & Integrations

Too Many Tool Calls

The AI or agent makes more tool calls, searches, retrievals, API calls, or integration actions than the task requires or permits.

MCP, Tools & Integrations

Tool Call Contract Mismatch

The AI or agent calls a tool with names, arguments, types, modes, or shapes that do not match the declared tool interface.

Permissions & Approvals

Tool Can Act Without Responsible Authority

A tool, connector, function, or integration can perform an action without a declared responsible authority for that action.

MCP, Tools & Integrations

Tool Exists but Required Inputs Are Missing

A usable tool or integration exists, but the AI or agent does not have the required inputs, permissions, fields, identifiers, or context needed to call it correctly.

MCP, Tools & Integrations

Tool Result Not Integrated Correctly

The AI receives a tool result but misreads, ignores, overwrites, misplaces, or fails to incorporate it correctly into the final output or workflow state.

Rules & Policies

Tool Rules and Prompt Rules Conflict

Tool, connector, function, or MCP rules conflict with prompt instructions, causing the AI or agent to face incompatible requirements.

Inconsistent Behavior

Validation Result Changes on Retry

A validation, grading, review, classification, or pass/fail result changes after retry even though the input and declared validation rules did not change.

Changes & Versions

Version Change Breaks Existing Prompt

A prompt that previously produced usable results stops working after a version change in the model, tool, policy, schema, product surface, or workflow.

Loops & Resolution

Workflow Loops Through Review Without Resolution

A workflow repeatedly sends work through review, repair, or escalation without reaching an approved, rejected, or otherwise resolved state.

Workflow & Handoffs

Workflow Stage Has Too Few Checks

A workflow stage lacks enough checks, gates, criteria, or review conditions to safely support the work it controls.

Workflow & Handoffs

Workflow Step Has No Decision Owner

A workflow step requires a decision, approval, judgment, or routing choice, but no owner is declared for making it.

Workflow & Handoffs

Workflow Step Lacks Required Conditions

A workflow step can run, route, approve, reject, or continue without the required conditions being declared or checked.

Loops & Resolution

Workflow Waits on Step That Waits Back

A workflow step waits for another step that also waits on the first step, creating a blocking loop.

Output

Wrong Field Types

The AI returns fields with values whose types do not match the expected schema, such as strings where numbers, booleans, arrays, objects, or enums are required.