Workflow & Handoffs
Problems where review steps, handoffs, task progress, workflow ownership, downstream steps, or process coordination break, loop, disagree, or lose resolution.
Primary Issues
- Workflow Step Has No Decision Owner
A workflow step requires a decision, approval, judgment, or routing choice, but no owner is declared for making it.
- Human Review and Automation Disagree
A human review result and an automated AI or workflow result disagree without a declared rule for resolving the difference.
- Model and Workflow Disagree on Next Step
The AI model recommends or selects a next step that conflicts with the workflow state, required handoff, routing rule, or process sequence.
- Review Outcome Changes Unrelated Environment
A review result, approval, rejection, or classification changes state outside the environment, case, file, or workflow it was meant to govern.
- Workflow Step Lacks Required Conditions
A workflow step can run, route, approve, reject, or continue without the required conditions being declared or checked.
- Workflow Stage Has Too Few Checks
A workflow stage lacks enough checks, gates, criteria, or review conditions to safely support the work it controls.
Also Related Issues
Showing 8 of 22 cross-listed issues.
- Fallback Authority Is Missing
The system does not declare who or what has authority when the primary owner, rule, tool, source, or decision path is unavailable or inconclusive.
- Tool Result Not Integrated Correctly
The AI receives a tool result but misreads, ignores, overwrites, misplaces, or fails to incorporate it correctly into the final output or workflow state.
- Task Progress Is Lost Midway
The AI loses track of completed work, prior decisions, current position, or remaining steps before the task is finished.
- Repair Step Created New Breakage
A repair, correction, retry, or fix step addresses one problem but introduces a new failure elsewhere.
- Prompt Changed but Workflow Did Not
A prompt changes but the workflow, parser, review step, routing rule, or downstream expectation still assumes the old prompt behavior.
- Rubric Changed but Results Did Not
A review rubric, scoring rule, evaluation standard, or classification criterion changes, but AI results continue to reflect the old rubric.
- Same Workflow Check Happens Twice
The same review, validation, approval, routing, or safety check occurs more than once in the workflow without a clear reason.
- Review Rubric Missing Required Criteria
A review rubric, grading rule, evaluation checklist, or classification standard lacks criteria required to make the review reliable.
Ontology Metadata
- Code
CAT-0070- Version
CAT-0070@0.1.0- Ontology release
- 0.1.0
- Updated
- 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z
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