# Autonomy / Global Consistency

> "autonomy" (structural-core layer) is traded against "Global Consistency" (execution-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Global Consistency" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:autonomy-global-consistency`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-autonomy-global-consistency

Listed in [Tensions](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/tension.md), after [Autonomy / Standardization](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/autonomy-standardization.md) and before [Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) / Interface Proliferation](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/interface-proliferation-interface-segregation-principle-isp.md).

## In tension with

- [Autonomy](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/autonomy.md)
- [Global Consistency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/global-consistency.md)

## Mechanism

- [irreducible-tradeoff](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/resolution-mechanism-irreducible-tradeoff.md)

## Linked from

- [Core Modular Design](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-core-modular-design.md)
- [Resolution mechanisms](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-resolution-mechanism.md)