# Context Leaks Between Tasks

## Ontology Metadata

Code: ISS-0032
Version: ISS-0032@0.1.0
Ontology release: 0.1.0
Updated: 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z
Canonical URL: /workbench/issues/context-leaks-between-tasks/

## Summary

Context, assumptions, constraints, examples, files, or decisions from one task affect another task where they should not apply.

## 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-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-0360 — Propagation Amplification
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/propagation-amplification/
  - Summary: A structural condition where an effect, declaration, authority, constraint, or state increases in scope or intensity as it propagates beyond declared bounds.
- 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.

## Derived Primary Lenses

- LEN-0190 — Escalation Gradient Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/escalation-gradient-lens/
  - Summary: Measures structural growth or intensification across sequential executions, states, or transitions.
- 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-0250 — Propagation Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/propagation-lens/
  - Summary: Traces how structural declarations, effects, or state changes propagate across boundaries or stages.
- 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-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-0180 — Determinism Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/determinism-lens/
  - Summary: Evaluates whether identical structural inputs produce equivalent structural outputs across repeated executions.
- LEN-0290 — Variance / Entropy Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/variance-entropy-lens/
  - Summary: Measures structural variability across repeated or comparable evaluations and identifies divergence beyond expected bounds.

## Search Intents

- context leaks between tasks
- AI uses context from another task
- ChatGPT carries over wrong context
- previous task affects new task
- AI mixes separate tasks
- context bleed between conversations