Failure Categories

Category Details

• Fabrication 4 FMs Dir A

  Claude generates content that does not exist in reality — invented citations, statistics, entities, quotes, procedures, and cultural claims.

• Epistemological 20 FMs Dir A

  Errors in how Claude knows and reasons — false confidence, verification failures, confirmatory bias, and misreading evidence.

• Quality 25 FMs Dir A

  Output quality failures — incomplete deliverables, format non-compliance, internal inconsistency, generic content, and silent omissions.

• Process 31 FMs Dir A

  Workflow and execution failures — skipped steps, state corruption, memory drift, unilateral decisions, and false completion signals.

• Communication 16 FMs Dir A

  Failures in how Claude communicates — ambiguous follow-through, failure to flag issues, explanation gaps, and scope confirmation failures.

• Bias 5 FMs Dir A

  Systematic distortions — availability bias, status quo bias, demographic stereotypes, sycophantic drift, and cultural homogenization.

• Scope 1 FM Dir A

  Boundary violations — task over-generation, unsolicited redesigns, premature solutions, and cross-context contamination.

• Identity 1 FM Dir A

  Failures around Claude's sense of role — role confusion, persona violations, authority misrepresentation, and capability misrepresentation.

• Judgment / Process 1 FM Dir A + B

  Decision quality failures — risk misassessment, ethical blind spots, lazy asks, tradeoff blindness, and human planning gaps (Direction B).