Independence / Coordination Cost
Kind: tension
Record: tension:coordination-cost-independence
Canonical: Schema
"independence" (structural-core layer) is traded against "Coordination Cost" (structural-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Coordination Cost" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Interchangeability / Specialized Optimization and before Autonomy / Governance.