# Workflow Stage Has Too Few Checks

## Ontology Metadata

Code: ISS-0078
Version: ISS-0078@0.1.0
Ontology release: 0.1.0
Updated: 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z
Canonical URL: /workbench/issues/workflow-stage-has-too-few-checks/

## Summary

A workflow stage lacks enough checks, gates, criteria, or review conditions to safely support the work it controls.

## Category

- CAT-0070 — Workflow & Handoffs
  - URL: /workbench/categories/workflow-and-handoffs/
  - Summary: Problems where review steps, handoffs, task progress, workflow ownership, downstream steps, or process coordination break, loop, disagree, or lose resolution.

## Primary Pattern

- PAT-0280 — Density Vacuum
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/density-vacuum/
  - Summary: A structural condition where a region expected to contain sufficient nodes, edges, coverage, or relationships falls below declared density thresholds.

## Declared Patterns

- PAT-0280 — Density Vacuum
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/density-vacuum/
  - Summary: A structural condition where a region expected to contain sufficient nodes, edges, coverage, or relationships falls below declared density thresholds.
- PAT-0130 — Incomplete Declaration
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/incomplete-declaration/
  - Summary: A structural condition where an element is declared but required attributes, dependencies, or linked definitions are missing.
- 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-0140 — Compression Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/compression-lens/
  - Summary: Reduces structural graphs into stable minimal representations for comparison, redundancy detection, and diffing.
- LEN-0160 — Constraint Sufficiency Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/constraint-sufficiency-lens/
  - Summary: Evaluates whether declared constraints are sufficient to eliminate structural degrees of freedom.

## Derived Secondary Lenses

- 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-0250 — Propagation Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/propagation-lens/
  - Summary: Traces how structural declarations, effects, or state changes propagate across boundaries or stages.

## Search Intents

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- AI workflow missing checks
- workflow gate too weak
- not enough review checks
- stage lacks validation
- workflow stage underchecked