# API Surface Growth

> The degree to which adding extension points enlarges the public API that must be kept stable.

Record: `lexicon:api-surface-growth`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Extensibility Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/extensibility-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-api-surface-growth

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Registration Protocol](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/registration-protocol.md) and before [Constructor Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/constructor-complexity.md).

## Category

- [Plugin / Extensibility / IoC](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/plugin-extensibility-ioc.md)

## In tension with

- [Extension Points](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/extension-points.md)
- [Extension Points / API Surface Growth](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/api-surface-growth-extension-points.md)

## Linked from

- [Plugin / Extensibility / IoC](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-plugin-extensibility-ioc.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)