# Convention over Configuration / Explicitness

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

Record: `tension:convention-over-configuration-explicitness`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-convention-over-configuration-explicitness

## tensions-with

- [Convention over Configuration](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/convention-over-configuration.md)
- [Explicitness](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/explicitness.md)