Speculative Generality

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Enforcement Core

Record: architecture:speculative-generality

Severity: discouraged

Scope: runtime_extensibility

Formed by: Build abstractions, extension points, layers, or configuration for variation that has no evidence of existing or near-term need.

Canonical: Ontology

A defect in which abstractions are built for variation that has no evidence of arriving.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Magic Value and before Premature Abstraction.

Refactored by

• Inline Abstraction
• Defer Generalization
• Minimum Viable Architecture

Severity

• discouraged

Category

• Anti-patterns

Force

• Runtime extensibility

Detected by

• rules/eslint/closure-event-system-has-trajectory.eslint.rule.ts

Linked from

• Worth before work
• The structural domain
• Anti-patterns
• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts
• Architecture Review Evolution Governance
• Core Modular Design
• Severity levels
• The forces