# Output Encoding / Formatting Flexibility

> "output-encoding" (security-core layer) is traded against "Formatting Flexibility" (security-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Formatting Flexibility" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:formatting-flexibility-output-encoding`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-formatting-flexibility-output-encoding

## tensions-with

- [Output Encoding](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/output-encoding.md)
- [Formatting Flexibility](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/formatting-flexibility.md)