{
  "registry_version": "2026.08.2",
  "data": {
    "title": "Genuine Technical Skill Shortfall",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "EVD-006"
    ],
    "content": "# Genuine Technical Skill Shortfall\n\nThe candidate’s verified technical execution or domain depth does not meet the established baseline for the role level.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `candidate`\n- **Nature:** `rule`\n- **Removability:** `candidate`\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Rejection does not mean the candidate has no engineering ability, only that the requirement bar was unmet for this specific benchmark.",
    "id": "M-001",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "The candidate’s verified technical execution or domain depth does not meet the established baseline for the role level.",
    "operates_at": [
      "B-005",
      "B-006",
      "B-007"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "A-008",
        "fidelity": "direct",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-006"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "A-002",
        "fidelity": "euphemism",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-001"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "candidate",
      "nature": "rule",
      "visibility": "inferable",
      "removability": "candidate"
    },
    "amplifies": [],
    "masks": [],
    "evidence_level": "established",
    "honest_baseline": true,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "email",
        "label": "Feedback naming the gap",
        "subject": "Feedback — technical round",
        "lines": [
          {
            "text": "The panel was positive on communication and on how you structured the problem.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "The gap was concrete: the concurrency exercise needed a bounded worker pool and the submitted solution spawned unbounded goroutines, which the panel would expect to be caught at this level.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "text": "We would genuinely welcome a re-application once that area has had some time.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "A named exercise and a named property. This is the shape of feedback that is about the work rather than about fit — rare, and worth keeping."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Rejection does not mean the candidate has no engineering ability, only that the requirement bar was unmet for this specific benchmark."
    ]
  }
}