# Self-Describing API / Payload Verbosity

> "self-describing-api" (declarative-core layer) is traded against "Payload Verbosity" (declarative-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Payload Verbosity" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:payload-verbosity-self-describing-api`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-payload-verbosity-self-describing-api

## tensions-with

- [Self-Describing API](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/self-describing-api.md)
- [Payload Verbosity](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/payload-verbosity.md)