Capability Declaration / Declaration Drift

Kind: tension

Record: tension:capability-declaration-declaration-drift

Canonical: Schema

"capability-declaration" (declarative-core layer) is traded against "Declaration Drift" (declarative-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Declaration Drift" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Convention over Configuration / Explicitness and before Manifest-Based Design / Manifest Drift.

In tension with

• Capability Declaration
• Declaration Drift

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems
• Resolution mechanisms