Manifest-Based Design / Manifest Drift

Kind: tension

Record: tension:manifest-based-design-manifest-drift

Canonical: Schema

"manifest-based-design" (declarative-core layer) is traded against "Manifest Drift" (declarative-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Manifest Drift" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Capability Declaration / Declaration Drift and before Homoiconicity / Readability.

In tension with

• Manifest-Based Design
• Manifest Drift

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems
• Resolution mechanisms