# Data Contract / Flexible Ingestion

> "data-contract" (contracts-core layer) is traded against "Flexible Ingestion" (contracts-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Flexible Ingestion" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:data-contract-flexible-ingestion`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-data-contract-flexible-ingestion

## tensions-with

- [Data Contract](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/data-contract.md)
- [Flexible Ingestion](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/flexible-ingestion.md)