# Schema Contract / Schema Flexibility

> "schema-contract" (contracts-core layer) is traded against "Schema Flexibility" (contracts-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Schema Flexibility" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:schema-contract-schema-flexibility`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-schema-contract-schema-flexibility

## tensions-with

- [Schema Contract](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/schema-contract.md)
- [Schema Flexibility](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/schema-flexibility.md)