# Idempotent Consumer / State Overhead

> "idempotent-consumer" (execution-core layer) is traded against "State Overhead" (execution-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "State Overhead" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:idempotent-consumer-state-overhead`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-idempotent-consumer-state-overhead

## tensions-with

- [Idempotent Consumer](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/idempotent-consumer.md)
- [State Overhead](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/state-overhead.md)