# Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) / Excessive Fragmentation

> "single-responsibility" (structural-core layer) is traded against "Excessive Fragmentation" (structural-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Excessive Fragmentation" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:excessive-fragmentation-single-responsibility-principle-srp`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-excessive-fragmentation-single-responsibility-principle-srp

## tensions-with

- [Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/single-responsibility.md)
- [Excessive Fragmentation](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/excessive-fragmentation.md)