Engineer A Faithful Agent Duty Limits
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/85#Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Duty_Limits
Definition
Engineer A owed a duty of loyalty to the local public agency client as a faithful agent, but that duty did not extend to concealing the incompleteness of the deliverables or to rationalizing deficient work on the basis that federal funds would cover the consequences.
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Engineer A's professional relationship with the local public agency
Balancing with
Deliverable Completeness Disclosure Principle
Public Welfare Paramountcy Principle
Concrete expression
Engineer A owed a duty of loyalty to the local public agency client as a faithful agent, but that duty did not extend to concealing the incompleteness of the deliverables or to rationalizing deficient work on the basis that federal funds would cover the consequences.
Confidence
0.83
Interpretation
The faithful agent duty requires advancing the client's legitimate interests, which include receiving complete and adequate design documents. Delivering incomplete documents while concealing their deficiency does not serve the client's legitimate interests and therefore falls outside the scope of the faithful agent duty.
Tension resolution
The faithful agent duty, properly understood, required disclosure of deficiencies to the client, not concealment. The duty was therefore not in genuine tension with the disclosure obligation but was misapplied by Engineer A.
Match Confidence
0.95
Match Reasoning
Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Faithful Agent Duty Principle'
Matched Ontology Label
Faithful Agent Duty Principle
Matches Existing
true
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer A
Source Evidence
Text references
Engineer A responds to an RFP from a small local public agency
did not inform anyone as to their incompleteness
Source text
Engineer A responds to an RFP from a small local public agency to build a new dam
TTL
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case85:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Duty_Limits a proeth:FaithfulAgentDutyPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Faithful Agent Duty Limits" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case85:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth:appliedTo "Engineer A's professional relationship with the local public agency" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Deliverable Completeness Disclosure Principle",
"Public Welfare Paramountcy Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer A owed a duty of loyalty to the local public agency client as a faithful agent, but that duty did not extend to concealing the incompleteness of the deliverables or to rationalizing deficient work on the basis that federal funds would cover the consequences." ;
proeth:confidence "0.83" ;
proeth:interpretation "The faithful agent duty requires advancing the client's legitimate interests, which include receiving complete and adequate design documents. Delivering incomplete documents while concealing their deficiency does not serve the client's legitimate interests and therefore falls outside the scope of the faithful agent duty." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A Dam Design Engineer" ;
proeth:principleClass "Faithful Agent Duty Principle" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "The faithful agent duty, properly understood, required disclosure of deficiencies to the client, not concealment. The duty was therefore not in genuine tension with the disclosure obligation but was misapplied by Engineer A." ;
proeth:textReferences "Engineer A responds to an RFP from a small local public agency",
"did not inform anyone as to their incompleteness" ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 85 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T16:49:05.036482+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 85 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.95 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Faithful Agent Duty Principle'" ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass proeth:FaithfulAgentDutyPrinciple ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Faithful Agent Duty Principle" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "Engineer A responds to an RFP from a small local public agency to build a new dam" ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A owed a duty of loyalty to the local public agency client as a faithful agent, but that duty did not extend to concealing the incompleteness of the deliverables or to rationalizing deficient work on the basis that federal funds would cover the consequences." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A owed a duty of loyalty to the local public agency client as a faithful agent, but that duty did not extend to concealing the incompleteness of the deliverables or to rationalizing deficient work on the basis that federal funds would cover the consequences." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T16:49:05.036482+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 85 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 85 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
85
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-06-04T16:49:05.036482+00:00
First case
85
Generated
2026-06-04T16:49:05.036482+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 85 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 85 Extraction