Feature Toggle / Flag Debt
Kind: tension
Record: tension:feature-toggle-flag-debt
Canonical: Schema
"feature-toggle" (extensibility-core layer) is traded against "Flag Debt" (extensibility-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Flag Debt" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Service Locator Pattern / Explicit Dependencies and before Self-Healing Architecture / Unsafe Automation.