Extension Points / API Surface Growth
Kind: tension
Record: tension:api-surface-growth-extension-points
Canonical: Schema
"extension-points" (extensibility-core layer) is traded against "API Surface Growth" (extensibility-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "API Surface Growth" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Plugin Architecture / Security and before Inversion of Control (IoC) / Traceability.