Slang & Culture
Out of scope
Not part of what this tool, project or conversation covers. AI assistants say a request is 'out of scope' when it falls outside what they're built or allowed to do; project teams use it to mark work they've explicitly decided not to do.
Origin · no single documented coiner
General project-management and engineering jargon, decades old, from the 'scope' of a piece of work. No single documented coiner; AI assistants inherited the phrase from customer-support and software templates.
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