# PAT-0340 — Overreach

## Ontology Metadata

Code: PAT-0340
Version: PAT-0340@0.1.0
Ontology release: 0.1.0
Updated: 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z
Canonical URL: /workbench/patterns/overreach/

## Summary

A structural condition where actions, effects, authority, or modifications extend beyond declared scope without authorization.

## Primary Lenses

- LEN-0240 — Overreach Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/overreach-lens/
  - Summary: Detects structure that exceeds declared scope or authority reach.
- LEN-0120 — Boundary Compliance Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/boundary-compliance-lens/
  - Summary: Evaluates observed structure against declared boundary posture, including allow, block, and exception rules.

## Secondary Lenses

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

## Primary Issue Matches

- ISS-0009 — AI Adds Work Not Requested
  - URL: /workbench/issues/ai-adds-work-not-requested/
  - Summary: The AI adds tasks, steps, analysis, checks, changes, or follow-up work that the user did not ask for.
- ISS-0045 — AI Touches Unrelated Scope
  - URL: /workbench/issues/ai-touches-unrelated-scope/
  - Summary: The AI affects, edits, analyzes, changes, or reasons over material outside the scope of the requested task.
- ISS-0023 — Hallucinated Fields
  - URL: /workbench/issues/hallucinated-fields/
  - Summary: The AI adds fields, keys, attributes, columns, or structured elements that were not declared, requested, or allowed by the expected schema.
- 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.

## Supporting Issue Matches

- 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-0113 — Agent Modified Unrelated State
  - URL: /workbench/issues/agent-modified-unrelated-state/
  - Summary: An agent changes state outside the requested task, target, file, record, workflow, or authorized scope.
- 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-0044 — AI Uses External Information When Forbidden
  - URL: /workbench/issues/ai-uses-external-information-when-forbidden/
  - Summary: The AI uses outside knowledge, sources, tools, memory, or assumptions after the task forbids external information or limits the allowed source set.
- 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-0048 — File-Bounded Task Uses Outside Content
  - URL: /workbench/issues/file-bounded-task-uses-outside-content/
  - Summary: The AI is asked to work only from a specific file or document but uses content, assumptions, or sources outside that file.
- ISS-0096 — Local Rule Spreads to Broader Cases
  - URL: /workbench/issues/local-rule-spreads-to-broader-cases/
  - Summary: A rule intended for one local case, file, context, user, workflow, or exception begins affecting broader cases.
- ISS-0049 — Policy Exception Spreads Too Far
  - URL: /workbench/issues/policy-exception-spreads-too-far/
  - Summary: A narrow policy exception, allowance, or special case spreads beyond its intended scope and begins governing broader cases.
- ISS-0062 — Retrieval Exceeds Evidence Limit
  - URL: /workbench/issues/retrieval-exceeds-evidence-limit/
  - Summary: The AI retrieves, uses, cites, or considers more evidence than the task permits or more than the review surface can support.
- ISS-0061 — Too Many Tool Calls
  - URL: /workbench/issues/too-many-tool-calls/
  - Summary: The AI or agent makes more tool calls, searches, retrievals, API calls, or integration actions than the task requires or permits.