Model Version Ambiguity

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Enforcement Core

Record: architecture:model-version-ambiguity

Severity: discouraged

Scope: model_governance

Formed by: Use models, embeddings, prompts, or evaluation artifacts without recording version, configuration, dataset, or inference context.

Canonical: Ontology

A defect in which models, prompts or indexes are used without recording their version and configuration.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Ungrounded Content and before Domain-Driven Design (DDD).

Refactored by

• Model Registry
• Prompt Versioning
• Inference Context Record
• Governance Log

Severity

• discouraged

Category

• Anti-patterns

Force

• Model governance

Violates

• Machine Learning Architecture

Negated by

• Model Governance

Linked from

• Systems built around a model
• Anti-patterns
• Model Architecture
• Model Architecture
• Severity levels
• The forces