# PAT-0410 — Unconstrained Expansion

## Ontology Metadata

Code: PAT-0410
Version: PAT-0410@0.1.0
Ontology release: 0.1.0
Updated: 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z
Canonical URL: /workbench/patterns/unconstrained-expansion/

## Summary

A structural condition where a region, process, authority, or effect expands without governing constraints limiting growth.

## Primary Lenses

- LEN-0190 — Escalation Gradient Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/escalation-gradient-lens/
  - Summary: Measures structural growth or intensification across sequential executions, states, or transitions.
- LEN-0140 — Compression Lens
  - URL: /workbench/lenses/compression-lens/
  - Summary: Reduces structural graphs into stable minimal representations for comparison, redundancy detection, and diffing.

## Secondary Lenses

- 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.

## Primary 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.

## Supporting Issue Matches

- 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.