Hidden Dependency

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Causality Core

Record: lexicon:hidden-dependency

Canonical: Lexicon

A dependency a component or an operation relies on without declaring it, so it surfaces only at runtime or when an unstated order is broken.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Graph Complexity and before Cycle Detection.

Category

• Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time

Negated by

• Causal Dependency
• Dependency Graph
• Testability

Violates

• Causal Dependency
• Dependency Graph
• Testability
• Event Bus
• Manifest-Based Design
• Dataflow Architecture
• Service Locator Pattern

Linked from

• Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time
• Correctness / Determinism / Verification
• Event / Messaging / Asynchronous Architecture
• Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems
• Streaming / Pipeline / Dataflow Processing
• Plugin / Extensibility / IoC
• Failure shapes