# Consumer-Driven Contracts / Provider Autonomy

> "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.

Record: `tension:consumer-driven-contracts-provider-autonomy`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-consumer-driven-contracts-provider-autonomy

## tensions-with

- [Consumer-Driven Contracts](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/consumer-driven-contracts.md)
- [Provider Autonomy](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/provider-autonomy.md)