Consumer-Driven Contracts / Provider Autonomy
Kind: tension
Record: tension:consumer-driven-contracts-provider-autonomy
Canonical: Schema
"consumer-driven-contracts" (contracts-core layer) is traded against "Provider Autonomy" (contracts-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Provider Autonomy" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Uniform Interface / Specialized Endpoints and before Control Plane / Availability.