# Merge Step Leaves Unresolved Differences

## Ontology Metadata

Code: ISS-0084
Version: ISS-0084@0.1.0
Ontology release: 0.1.0
Updated: 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z
Canonical URL: /workbench/issues/merge-step-leaves-unresolved-differences/

## Summary

A merge, reconciliation, or consolidation step combines outputs or reviews but leaves important differences unresolved.

## Category

- CAT-0130 — Loops & Resolution
  - URL: /workbench/categories/loops-and-resolution/
  - Summary: Problems where agents, workflows, reviews, approvals, policies, schemas, or routing paths loop, wait on themselves, fail to settle, or cannot identify a final state.

## Primary Pattern

- PAT-0320 — Convergence Failure
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/convergence-failure/
  - Summary: A structural condition where sequential or parallel states fail to resolve into an equivalent or coherent structure under shared authority and constraints.

## Declared Patterns

- PAT-0320 — Convergence Failure
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/convergence-failure/
  - Summary: A structural condition where sequential or parallel states fail to resolve into an equivalent or coherent structure under shared authority and constraints.
- PAT-0220 — Authority Merge Conflict
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/authority-merge-conflict/
  - Summary: A structural condition where multiple authority states are combined over a shared scope without a declared merge, precedence, or reconciliation rule.
- PAT-0310 — Orphaned Structure
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/orphaned-structure/
  - Summary: A structural condition where a node, region, object, state, or declaration exists without linkage to the governing graph or integration pathway.

## Derived Primary Lenses

- LEN-0100 — Absence Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/absence-lens/
  - Summary: Detects structurally required elements that are missing from the observed structure.
- LEN-0150 — Conflict Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/conflict-lens/
  - Summary: Detects mutually incompatible constraints, claims, states, or declarations that cannot be simultaneously satisfied.
- LEN-0170 — Convergence Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/convergence-lens/
  - Summary: Compares parallel structural systems to determine whether they align under shared authority.
- LEN-0270 — Reconciliation Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/reconciliation-lens/
  - Summary: Evaluates whether structural changes align with declared authority updates, version changes, or reconciliation rules.

## Derived Secondary Lenses

- LEN-0110 — Authority Overlay Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/authority-overlay-lens/
  - Summary: Maps declared authority hierarchies onto observed structure to detect absence, override, or conflict.
- LEN-0250 — Propagation Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/propagation-lens/
  - Summary: Traces how structural declarations, effects, or state changes propagate across boundaries or stages.
- 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

- merge step leaves unresolved differences
- AI merge did not resolve differences
- review merge left conflicts
- consolidated answer still has contradictions
- merge step failed to reconcile
- unresolved differences after merge