# No Owner for Agent Action

## Ontology Metadata

Code: ISS-0012
Version: ISS-0012@0.1.0
Ontology release: 0.1.0
Updated: 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z
Canonical URL: /workbench/issues/no-owner-for-agent-action/

## Summary

An agent action can affect the system without a declared responsible owner, authority, or accountable decision path.

## Category

- CAT-0050 — Permissions & Approvals
  - URL: /workbench/categories/permissions-and-approvals/
  - Summary: Problems where ownership, approval, authority, permission state, responsible control, or action rights are missing, stale, bypassed, conflicting, or unclear.

## Primary Pattern

- PAT-0120 — Missing Authority
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/missing-authority/
  - Summary: A structural condition where a region, action, state, or decision path exists without a declared governing authority.

## Declared Patterns

- PAT-0120 — Missing Authority
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/missing-authority/
  - Summary: A structural condition where a region, action, state, or decision path exists without a declared governing authority.
- PAT-0420 — Undeclared Side Effect
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/undeclared-side-effect/
  - Summary: A structural condition where an operation modifies regions outside its declared target scope without a declared propagation or side-effect rule.
- PAT-0240 — Authority-State Mismatch
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/authority-state-mismatch/
  - Summary: A structural condition where observed system state no longer aligns with the declared authority state that is supposed to govern it.

## 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-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-0240 — Overreach Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/overreach-lens/
  - Summary: Detects structure that exceeds declared scope or authority reach.
- LEN-0250 — Propagation Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/propagation-lens/
  - Summary: Traces how structural declarations, effects, or state changes propagate across boundaries or stages.
- 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-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-0220 — Isolation Boundary Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/isolation-boundary-lens/
  - Summary: Evaluates whether structural constraints, effects, and regions remain contained within declared boundaries.
- 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.

## Search Intents

- no owner for agent action
- AI agent acted without owner
- agent action has no accountable person
- who approved the agent action
- agent changed something without responsibility
- AI action has no decision owner