Semantic Contracts / Cross-Domain Translation
Kind: tension
Record: tension:cross-domain-translation-semantic-contracts
Canonical: Schema
"semantic-contracts" (contracts-core layer) is traded against "Cross-Domain Translation" (contracts-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Cross-Domain Translation" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Schema Contract / Schema Flexibility and before Preconditions / Permissive APIs.