Scope & Boundaries

Primary Issues

• Task Has No Clear Limit

  The task does not declare where the AI should stop, what is out of scope, or what counts as enough work.

• AI Uses External Information When Forbidden

  The AI uses outside knowledge, sources, tools, memory, or assumptions after the task forbids external information or limits the allowed source set.

• AI Touches Unrelated Scope

  The AI affects, edits, analyzes, changes, or reasons over material outside the scope of the requested task.

• File-Bounded Task Uses Outside Content

  The AI is asked to work only from a specific file or document but uses content, assumptions, or sources outside that file.

• Retrieval Exceeds Evidence Limit

  The AI retrieves, uses, cites, or considers more evidence than the task permits or more than the review surface can support.

• Agent Modified Unrelated State

  An agent changes state outside the requested task, target, file, record, workflow, or authorized scope.

Also Related Issues

Showing 8 of 9 cross-listed issues.

• Agent Keeps Expanding the Task

  The agent repeatedly expands the task, plan, scope, or next-step list instead of completing the declared work.

• AI Adds Work Not Requested

  The AI adds tasks, steps, analysis, checks, changes, or follow-up work that the user did not ask for.

• Answer Has Too Many Paths

  The answer presents too many possible paths, interpretations, options, or next steps without enough structure to choose among them.

• Hallucinated Fields

  The AI adds fields, keys, attributes, columns, or structured elements that were not declared, requested, or allowed by the expected schema.

• Context Leaks Between Tasks

  Context, assumptions, constraints, examples, files, or decisions from one task affect another task where they should not apply.

• Action Changed Something Else Too

  An AI or agent action makes the requested change but also changes another object, field, file, state, rule, or workflow element that was not supposed to change.

• Too Many Tool Calls

  The AI or agent makes more tool calls, searches, retrievals, API calls, or integration actions than the task requires or permits.

• Prompt Does Not Say What to Exclude

  The prompt declares what to include but does not declare what should be excluded, allowing unwanted scope, sources, content, or actions into the result.

Ontology Metadata

Code

CAT-0100

Version

CAT-0100@0.1.0

Ontology release

0.1.0

Updated

2026-05-10T00:00:00Z

History

• 0.1.0 — 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z — Created

  Initial Category scaffold added for Workbench navigation validation.

  Receipt impact: None

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