# Single Field Carries Too Many Obligations

## Ontology Metadata

Code: ISS-0107
Version: ISS-0107@0.1.0
Ontology release: 0.1.0
Updated: 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z
Canonical URL: /workbench/issues/single-field-carries-too-many-obligations/

## Summary

One field, label, score, status, or structured value is expected to carry too many meanings, decisions, or workflow obligations.

## Category

- CAT-0140 — Duplication & Overload
  - URL: /workbench/categories/duplication-and-overload/
  - Summary: Problems where fields, sections, rules, checks, prompts, workflow steps, or review queues become duplicated, overloaded, bottlenecked, or carry too many meanings.

## Primary Pattern

- PAT-0270 — Density Spike
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/density-spike/
  - Summary: A structural condition where nodes, edges, dependencies, decisions, or effects concentrate sharply within a localized region beyond declared thresholds.

## Declared Patterns

- PAT-0270 — Density Spike
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/density-spike/
  - Summary: A structural condition where nodes, edges, dependencies, decisions, or effects concentrate sharply within a localized region beyond declared thresholds.
- PAT-0370 — Redundant Declaration
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/redundant-declaration/
  - Summary: A structural condition where multiple declarations produce equivalent structural effect without semantic differentiation.
- PAT-0160 — Schema Breakage
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/schema-breakage/
  - Summary: A structural condition where an instance, graph, payload, or object violates the type, shape, or rule requirements of a declared schema.

## Derived Primary Lenses

- LEN-0140 — Compression Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/compression-lens/
  - Summary: Reduces structural graphs into stable minimal representations for comparison, redundancy detection, and diffing.
- LEN-0150 — Conflict Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/conflict-lens/
  - Summary: Detects mutually incompatible constraints, claims, states, or declarations that cannot be simultaneously satisfied.
- LEN-0200 — Interface Contract Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/interface-contract-lens/
  - Summary: Compares declared interface structure to observed runtime structure to detect contract deviations.
- LEN-0210 — Invariant Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/invariant-lens/
  - Summary: Verifies that declared invariants are structurally enforceable and not contradicted by observed structure.
- LEN-0230 — Normalization Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/normalization-lens/
  - Summary: Transforms structurally equivalent variants into a canonical form to prevent false divergence.
- 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.

## Derived Secondary Lenses

- LEN-0190 — Escalation Gradient Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/escalation-gradient-lens/
  - Summary: Measures structural growth or intensification across sequential executions, states, or transitions.

## Search Intents

- single field carries too many obligations
- AI field overloaded
- one field has too many meanings
- structured output field carries too much
- status field overloaded
- AI output field used for too many decisions