# Stable Conventions

> The requirement that the conventions a system relies on stay stable and well-known.

Record: `lexicon:stable-conventions`
Kind: constraint
Layer: [Declarative Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/declarative-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-stable-conventions

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Explicit Semantics](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/explicit-semantics.md) and before [Declaration Drift](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/declaration-drift.md).

## Category

- [Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/metadata-self-description-declarative-systems.md)

## Required by

- [Convention over Configuration](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/convention-over-configuration.md)

## Linked from

- [Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-metadata-self-description-declarative-systems.md)