# Pattern Consistency / Local Optimization

> "pattern-consistency" (evolution-principles layer) is traded against "Local Optimization" (evolution-principles layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Local Optimization" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:local-optimization-pattern-consistency`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-local-optimization-pattern-consistency

## tensions-with

- [Pattern Consistency](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/pattern-consistency.md)
- [Local Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/local-optimization.md)