Issue
Diagnostic Area Has No Coverage
A known diagnostic area, failure mode, requirement, or review dimension has no Issue, check, rubric item, or workflow coverage.
What This Looks Like
A known area that should be checked has no corresponding Issue, rubric item, workflow check, diagnostic question, or review path. The user may know something can go wrong, but the current system has no place to capture, evaluate, or route that failure.
Why It Matters
Uncovered diagnostic areas become blind spots. If a workflow has no way to represent a failure mode, users may ignore it, misclassify it, or force it into the wrong category. This weakens reporting, review, and future improvement because the problem has no stable place to land.
Structural Signal
A required diagnostic region exists, but the system has no coverage for it. The issue is not that a check failed; it is that no check, Issue, category, rubric item, or workflow path exists for the area.
Common Triggers
- A new failure mode appears before the ontology or rubric is updated
- Review checklists cover common cases but not edge cases
- Workflow design assumes a problem category will not occur
- Users report symptoms that do not map to any existing Issue
- A policy or tool introduces a new risk without adding diagnostics
- Coverage is tracked informally instead of structurally
When to Use This Issue
Use this Issue when a known diagnostic area lacks explicit coverage in the Issue set, rubric, workflow, review process, or guidance.
When Not to Use This Issue
Do not use this Issue when coverage exists but is weak or misapplied. Do not use it when the problem belongs to an existing Issue but was not recognized.
Category
Primary Pattern
Declared Patterns
Density Vacuum
A structural condition where a region expected to contain sufficient nodes, edges, coverage, or relationships falls below declared density thresholds.
Incomplete Declaration
A structural condition where an element is declared but required attributes, dependencies, or linked definitions are missing.
Constraints Underspecified
A structural condition where declared constraints are insufficient to eliminate ambiguity or multiple admissible states.
Derived Primary Lenses
Absence Lens
Detects structurally required elements that are missing from the observed structure.
Compression Lens
Reduces structural graphs into stable minimal representations for comparison, redundancy detection, and diffing.
Constraint Sufficiency Lens
Evaluates whether declared constraints are sufficient to eliminate structural degrees of freedom.
Derived Secondary Lenses
Determinism Lens
Evaluates whether identical structural inputs produce equivalent structural outputs across repeated executions.
Interface Contract Lens
Compares declared interface structure to observed runtime structure to detect contract deviations.
Variance / Entropy Lens
Measures structural variability across repeated or comparable evaluations and identifies divergence beyond expected bounds.
Related AI-Adjacent Issues
Search Intents
- diagnostic area has no coverage
- missing diagnostic coverage
- no check for this AI issue
- workflow does not cover failure mode
- review has coverage gap
- AI diagnosis missing area