# LEN-0270 — Reconciliation Lens

## Ontology Metadata

Code: LEN-0270
Version: LEN-0270@0.1.0
Ontology release: 0.1.0
Updated: 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z
Canonical URL: /workbench/lenses/reconciliation-lens/

## Summary

Evaluates whether structural changes align with declared authority updates, version changes, or reconciliation rules.

## Primary Pattern Matches

- 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-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.
- PAT-0190 — Contract Drift
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/contract-drift/
  - Summary: A structural condition where a declared contract changes but connected structures, implementations, consumers, or expectations do not update in sync.

## Secondary Pattern Matches

- PAT-0100 — Authority Collision
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/authority-collision/
  - Summary: A structural condition where multiple authorities claim governance over the same region without a declared precedence or resolution rule.
- PAT-0230 — Authority Shadowing
  - URL: /workbench/patterns/authority-shadowing/
  - Summary: A structural condition where a declared authority is functionally overridden by another authority without an explicit override rule.
- 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-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.

## Related Issues

- ISS-0064 — Action Triggered by Confidence Score
  - URL: /workbench/issues/action-triggered-by-confidence-score/
  - Summary: A confidence score, certainty label, risk level, or probability-like value triggers an action without enough approval, calibration, or authority control.
- ISS-0040 — Actual Policy Differs From Declared Policy
  - URL: /workbench/issues/actual-policy-differs-from-declared-policy/
  - Summary: The policy the AI or workflow actually follows differs from the policy that is documented, declared, displayed, or expected.
- ISS-0087 — Agent Cannot Choose Tool Without Tool Result
  - URL: /workbench/issues/agent-cannot-choose-tool-without-tool-result/
  - Summary: The agent needs a tool result to choose the right tool, but cannot obtain that result without choosing a tool first.
- ISS-0115 — Agent Gets Conflicting Tool Authority
  - URL: /workbench/issues/agent-gets-conflicting-tool-authority/
  - Summary: An agent receives conflicting authority signals about whether, when, or how it may use a tool, connector, function, or integration.
- ISS-0008 — Agent Keeps Expanding the Task
  - URL: /workbench/issues/agent-keeps-expanding-the-task/
  - Summary: The agent repeatedly expands the task, plan, scope, or next-step list instead of completing the declared work.
- ISS-0082 — Agent Never Settles on Final Answer
  - URL: /workbench/issues/agent-never-settles-on-final-answer/
  - Summary: The agent keeps revising, rechecking, planning, or branching instead of converging on a final answer or completed result.
- ISS-0099 — Agent Permission Expands Over Steps
  - URL: /workbench/issues/agent-permission-expands-over-steps/
  - Summary: An agent begins with limited permission but gains, assumes, or exercises broader authority as the workflow continues.
- ISS-0029 — AI Forgets Earlier Constraints
  - URL: /workbench/issues/ai-forgets-earlier-constraints/
  - Summary: A constraint, instruction, preference, or decision that should persist through the task stops affecting later output.
- ISS-0109 — AI Memory Has No Governance
  - URL: /workbench/issues/ai-memory-has-no-governance/
  - Summary: Saved or persistent AI memory affects output without clear rules for ownership, scope, review, update, expiry, or removal.
- ISS-0114 — AI Memory Updated Without Asking
  - URL: /workbench/issues/ai-memory-updated-without-asking/
  - Summary: AI memory, saved context, preference, or durable state is updated without the user clearly asking for or approving that update.
- ISS-0088 — Approval Depends on Output That Needs Approval
  - URL: /workbench/issues/approval-depends-on-output-that-needs-approval/
  - Summary: A required approval depends on an AI output or workflow result that itself cannot be produced or trusted until approval is granted.
- 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-0043 — Behavior Does Not Match Declared Role
  - URL: /workbench/issues/behavior-does-not-match-declared-role/
  - Summary: The AI or agent behaves outside, below, or differently from the role, authority, responsibility, or permission posture declared for it.
- ISS-0085 — Cannot Identify Authoritative State
  - URL: /workbench/issues/cannot-identify-authoritative-state/
  - Summary: The user or workflow cannot tell which state, version, review result, decision, source, or output is currently authoritative.
- ISS-0035 — Conflicting Instructions From Different Authorities
  - URL: /workbench/issues/conflicting-instructions-from-different-authorities/
  - Summary: Instructions from different sources, roles, policies, prompts, tools, or workflow authorities conflict without a clear rule for which one governs.
- ISS-0031 — Context Changes After Restore
  - URL: /workbench/issues/context-changes-after-restore/
  - Summary: Restoring, reopening, resuming, or reloading a task changes the context that the AI uses to continue the work.
- 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-0094 — Early Model Output Gets Overweighted Downstream
  - URL: /workbench/issues/early-model-output-gets-overweighted-downstream/
  - Summary: An early AI output receives too much authority in later workflow steps, decisions, reviews, or generated artifacts.
- ISS-0014 — Fallback Authority Is Missing
  - URL: /workbench/issues/fallback-authority-is-missing/
  - Summary: The system does not declare who or what has authority when the primary owner, rule, tool, source, or decision path is unavailable or inconclusive.
- ISS-0039 — Hidden Rule Overrides Visible Instruction
  - URL: /workbench/issues/hidden-rule-overrides-visible-instruction/
  - Summary: A hidden, upstream, system, policy, tool, or product rule changes or overrides the visible instruction the user expects the AI to follow.
- ISS-0036 — Human Review and Automation Disagree
  - URL: /workbench/issues/human-review-and-automation-disagree/
  - Summary: A human review result and an automated AI or workflow result disagree without a declared rule for resolving the difference.
- ISS-0101 — Local Exception Grows Into Policy
  - URL: /workbench/issues/local-exception-grows-into-policy/
  - Summary: A local exception, special case, or one-off allowance begins to function like a general policy.
- ISS-0084 — Merge Step Leaves Unresolved Differences
  - URL: /workbench/issues/merge-step-leaves-unresolved-differences/
  - Summary: A merge, reconciliation, or consolidation step combines outputs or reviews but leaves important differences unresolved.
- ISS-0074 — Missing Fallback for Unavailable Information
  - URL: /workbench/issues/missing-fallback-for-unavailable-information/
  - Summary: The task does not declare what the AI should do when required information, sources, tools, fields, or evidence are unavailable.
- 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-0050 — Model Output Triggers Unapproved Action
  - URL: /workbench/issues/model-output-triggers-unapproved-action/
  - Summary: AI output causes, recommends, or triggers an action that has not passed the required approval, permission, or authority check.
- ISS-0070 — Multiple Policies Say the Same Thing
  - URL: /workbench/issues/multiple-policies-say-the-same-thing/
  - Summary: Multiple policies, rules, or guidance documents express the same requirement, creating redundancy and uncertainty about which one governs.
- ISS-0012 — No Owner for Agent Action
  - 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.
- ISS-0056 — Old Output Expectations Survive Migration
  - URL: /workbench/issues/old-output-expectations-survive-migration/
  - Summary: Expectations from a prior model, prompt, schema, tool, or workflow survive a migration and continue shaping review or downstream handling after they should be replaced.
- 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-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-0083 — Parallel Reviews Never Agree
  - URL: /workbench/issues/parallel-reviews-never-agree/
  - Summary: Parallel AI, human, workflow, or tool reviews keep producing different results without resolving into a shared decision state.
- ISS-0016 — Permissions Conflict After Being Combined
  - URL: /workbench/issues/permissions-conflict-after-being-combined/
  - Summary: Permissions, approvals, roles, policies, or authority rules that seem valid separately conflict when combined in the same workflow or AI action.
- ISS-0090 — Policy Decision Depends on Itself
  - URL: /workbench/issues/policy-decision-depends-on-itself/
  - Summary: A policy decision requires the outcome of the same policy decision before it can be made.
- ISS-0042 — Policy Update Not Reflected in Output
  - URL: /workbench/issues/policy-update-not-reflected-in-output/
  - Summary: A policy, rule, standard, or instruction has been updated, but the AI output still follows the older version.
- ISS-0058 — Prompt Behavior Changed Without Version Change
  - URL: /workbench/issues/prompt-behavior-changed-without-version-change/
  - Summary: A prompt begins producing different behavior even though no prompt version, model version, workflow version, or declared dependency change is recorded.
- 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-0100 — Review Escalates Without Stop Condition
  - URL: /workbench/issues/review-escalates-without-stop-condition/
  - Summary: A review process keeps escalating, re-reviewing, or adding scrutiny without a declared condition for stopping.
- ISS-0105 — Review Queue Becomes Bottleneck
  - URL: /workbench/issues/review-queue-becomes-bottleneck/
  - Summary: A review queue, approval path, or validation stage accumulates too much work and begins blocking the workflow.
- ISS-0041 — Revoked Approval Still Treated as Active
  - URL: /workbench/issues/revoked-approval-still-treated-as-active/
  - Summary: An approval, permission, exception, or authorization that was revoked continues to affect AI behavior or workflow decisions as if it were still active.
- ISS-0065 — Risk Score Triggers Wrong Escalation
  - URL: /workbench/issues/risk-score-triggers-wrong-escalation/
  - Summary: A risk score, severity label, confidence value, or threshold result triggers the wrong escalation path.
- ISS-0095 — Risk Signal Escalates Beyond Evidence
  - URL: /workbench/issues/risk-signal-escalates-beyond-evidence/
  - Summary: A risk signal, warning, score, or concern escalates farther than the available evidence supports.
- ISS-0112 — Routing Overrides Task Intent
  - URL: /workbench/issues/routing-overrides-task-intent/
  - Summary: Routing, mode selection, agent behavior, or workflow classification sends the task down a path that overrides what the user was trying to accomplish.
- ISS-0092 — Routing Path Cycles Back to Start
  - URL: /workbench/issues/routing-path-cycles-back-to-start/
  - Summary: A routing path sends the case back to the starting point or an earlier step without resolving the condition that caused the route.
- ISS-0055 — Rubric Changed but Results Did Not
  - URL: /workbench/issues/rubric-changed-but-results-did-not/
  - Summary: A review rubric, scoring rule, evaluation standard, or classification criterion changes, but AI results continue to reflect the old rubric.
- ISS-0037 — Same Case Has Conflicting Policies
  - URL: /workbench/issues/same-case-has-conflicting-policies/
  - Summary: The same case appears to be governed by multiple policies, rules, or standards that point to incompatible outcomes.
- ISS-0057 — Same Contract Name Has Different Meanings
  - URL: /workbench/issues/same-contract-name-has-different-meanings/
  - Summary: The same prompt, schema, field, policy, tool, or workflow contract name is used in different places with different meanings.
- ISS-0067 — Same Rule Declared in Multiple Places
  - URL: /workbench/issues/same-rule-declared-in-multiple-places/
  - Summary: The same rule, constraint, instruction, or policy appears in multiple places, creating redundancy and possible drift.
- ISS-0069 — Same Workflow Check Happens Twice
  - URL: /workbench/issues/same-workflow-check-happens-twice/
  - Summary: The same review, validation, approval, routing, or safety check occurs more than once in the workflow without a clear reason.
- 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-0102 — Severity Increases Without New Evidence
  - URL: /workbench/issues/severity-increases-without-new-evidence/
  - Summary: The severity, risk, confidence, or escalation level increases even though no new evidence has been added.
- ISS-0001 — Similar Cases Route to Different Outcomes
  - URL: /workbench/issues/similar-cases-route-to-different-outcomes/
  - Summary: Similar inputs, cases, prompts, or workflow states are routed to different outcomes without a declared difference that explains the split.
- ISS-0103 — Single Step Carries Too Many Decisions
  - URL: /workbench/issues/single-step-carries-too-many-decisions/
  - Summary: One prompt, workflow step, review stage, or agent action carries too many decisions for the system or user to evaluate cleanly.
- 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-0034 — Stale Context Affects Output
  - URL: /workbench/issues/stale-context-affects-output/
  - Summary: Old context, prior instructions, outdated references, or earlier task state continue to affect output after they should no longer apply.
- ISS-0030 — Task Progress Is Lost Midway
  - URL: /workbench/issues/task-progress-is-lost-midway/
  - Summary: The AI loses track of completed work, prior decisions, current position, or remaining steps before the task is finished.
- ISS-0108 — Tool Can Act Without Responsible Authority
  - URL: /workbench/issues/tool-can-act-without-responsible-authority/
  - Summary: A tool, connector, function, or integration can perform an action without a declared responsible authority for that action.
- ISS-0019 — Tool Result Not Integrated Correctly
  - URL: /workbench/issues/tool-result-not-integrated-correctly/
  - Summary: The AI receives a tool result but misreads, ignores, overwrites, misplaces, or fails to incorporate it correctly into the final output or workflow state.
- ISS-0110 — Tool Rules and Prompt Rules Conflict
  - URL: /workbench/issues/tool-rules-and-prompt-rules-conflict/
  - Summary: Tool, connector, function, or MCP rules conflict with prompt instructions, causing the AI or agent to face incompatible requirements.
- 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-0086 — Workflow Loops Through Review Without Resolution
  - URL: /workbench/issues/workflow-loops-through-review-without-resolution/
  - Summary: A workflow repeatedly sends work through review, repair, or escalation without reaching an approved, rejected, or otherwise resolved state.
- ISS-0013 — Workflow Step Has No Decision Owner
  - URL: /workbench/issues/workflow-step-has-no-decision-owner/
  - Summary: A workflow step requires a decision, approval, judgment, or routing choice, but no owner is declared for making it.
- ISS-0089 — Workflow Waits on Step That Waits Back
  - URL: /workbench/issues/workflow-waits-on-step-that-waits-back/
  - Summary: A workflow step waits for another step that also waits on the first step, creating a blocking loop.