# Context Changes After Restore

## Ontology Metadata

Code: ISS-0031
Version: ISS-0031@0.1.0
Ontology release: 0.1.0
Updated: 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z
Canonical URL: /workbench/issues/context-changes-after-restore/

## Summary

Restoring, reopening, resuming, or reloading a task changes the context that the AI uses to continue the work.

## Category

- CAT-0020 — Memory & Context
  - URL: /workbench/categories/memory-and-context/
  - Summary: Problems where task state, prior instructions, saved memory, restored context, stale information, or cross-task context affects behavior incorrectly.

## Primary Pattern

- PAT-0190 — Contract Drift
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/contract-drift/
  - Summary: A structural condition where a declared contract changes but connected structures, implementations, consumers, or expectations do not update in sync.

## Declared Patterns

- PAT-0190 — Contract Drift
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/contract-drift/
  - Summary: A structural condition where a declared contract changes but connected structures, implementations, consumers, or expectations do not update in sync.
- PAT-0350 — Persistence Instability
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/persistence-instability/
  - Summary: A structural condition where persisted state cannot be stored and restored into an equivalent structure without alteration.
- PAT-0380 — Silent Mutation
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/silent-mutation/
  - Summary: A structural condition where a change occurs without a corresponding declared update, authority update, or version change.

## Derived Primary Lenses

- LEN-0170 — Convergence Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/convergence-lens/
  - Summary: Compares parallel structural systems to determine whether they align under shared authority.
- LEN-0180 — Determinism Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/determinism-lens/
  - Summary: Evaluates whether identical structural inputs produce equivalent structural outputs across repeated executions.
- LEN-0270 — Reconciliation Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/reconciliation-lens/
  - Summary: Evaluates whether structural changes align with declared authority updates, version changes, or reconciliation rules.
- LEN-0280 — Reference Stability Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/reference-stability-lens/
  - Summary: Evaluates whether structural references, identifiers, nodes, and edges remain consistent across execution cycles or comparable states.

## Derived Secondary Lenses

- LEN-0260 — Provenance Trace Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/provenance-trace-lens/
  - Summary: Attaches stable lineage to structural regions by mapping origin, reference history, and transformation path.

## Search Intents

- context changes after restore
- restored chat has different context
- AI context changed after reload
- resume changed AI behavior
- restored task lost context
- AI uses different context after reopening