Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) / Interface Proliferation

Kind: tension

Record: tension:interface-proliferation-interface-segregation-principle-isp

Canonical: Schema

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

Listed in Tensions, after Autonomy / Global Consistency and before Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) / Runtime Indirection.

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