# LEN-0130 — Compatibility Envelope Lens

## Ontology Metadata

Code: LEN-0130
Version: LEN-0130@0.1.0
Ontology release: 0.1.0
Updated: 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z
Canonical URL: /workbench/lenses/compatibility-envelope-lens/

## Summary

Determines whether structure fits within declared runtime, platform, version, or support constraints.

## Primary Pattern Matches

- PAT-0180 — Compatibility Violation
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/compatibility-violation/
  - Summary: A structural condition where a graph, object, behavior, or runtime state exceeds a declared compatibility envelope without an authorized exception.

## Secondary Pattern Matches

None.

## Related Issues

- ISS-0026 — AI Output Breaks Parser
  - URL: /workbench/issues/ai-output-breaks-parser/
  - Summary: The AI output causes a parser, validator, importer, or structured-output consumer to fail.
- ISS-0111 — Automation Skips Required Approval
  - URL: /workbench/issues/automation-skips-required-approval/
  - Summary: An automated AI or workflow step proceeds past an approval gate that should have been required before action.
- ISS-0003 — Citation Points to Wrong Source
  - URL: /workbench/issues/citation-points-to-wrong-source/
  - Summary: A citation, reference, link, or source pointer is present, but it points to the wrong source, wrong passage, wrong document, or unsupported evidence.
- ISS-0015 — Declared Owner Cannot Control Outcome
  - URL: /workbench/issues/declared-owner-cannot-control-outcome/
  - Summary: A person, role, system, or policy is declared responsible for an outcome but does not have the actual authority or control needed to govern it.
- ISS-0038 — Model and Workflow Disagree on Next Step
  - URL: /workbench/issues/model-and-workflow-disagree-on-next-step/
  - Summary: The AI model recommends or selects a next step that conflicts with the workflow state, required handoff, routing rule, or process sequence.
- ISS-0052 — Output Breaks After Model Change
  - URL: /workbench/issues/output-breaks-after-model-change/
  - Summary: Output that previously worked begins failing after a model, mode, runtime, or product behavior changes.
- ISS-0018 — Output Breaks the Next Step
  - URL: /workbench/issues/output-breaks-the-next-step/
  - Summary: The AI output looks acceptable by itself but cannot be used by the next tool, workflow step, parser, reviewer, or downstream consumer.
- ISS-0059 — Output Changed Without Declared Change
  - URL: /workbench/issues/output-changed-without-declared-change/
  - Summary: Output shape, content, format, fields, or behavior changes without a declared change to the prompt, schema, model, workflow, or governing rule.
- ISS-0054 — Prompt Changed but Workflow Did Not
  - URL: /workbench/issues/prompt-changed-but-workflow-did-not/
  - Summary: A prompt changes but the workflow, parser, review step, routing rule, or downstream expectation still assumes the old prompt behavior.
- ISS-0004 — Saved Reference No Longer Works
  - URL: /workbench/issues/saved-reference-no-longer-works/
  - Summary: A saved source, citation, file reference, prompt reference, or workflow pointer previously worked but no longer resolves to the expected object or meaning.
- ISS-0106 — Small Change Produces Large Downstream Effects
  - URL: /workbench/issues/small-change-produces-large-downstream-effects/
  - Summary: A small prompt, schema, policy, output, or workflow change creates unexpectedly large effects in downstream steps.
- ISS-0017 — Tool Call Contract Mismatch
  - URL: /workbench/issues/tool-call-contract-mismatch/
  - Summary: The AI or agent calls a tool with names, arguments, types, modes, or shapes that do not match the declared tool interface.
- ISS-0053 — Version Change Breaks Existing Prompt
  - URL: /workbench/issues/version-change-breaks-existing-prompt/
  - Summary: A prompt that previously produced usable results stops working after a version change in the model, tool, policy, schema, product surface, or workflow.
- ISS-0024 — Wrong Field Types
  - URL: /workbench/issues/wrong-field-types/
  - Summary: The AI returns fields with values whose types do not match the expected schema, such as strings where numbers, booleans, arrays, objects, or enums are required.