{
  "registry_version": "2026.08.2",
  "data": {
    "title": "Pre-Selected Internal Candidate",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "EVD-004"
    ],
    "content": "# Pre-Selected Internal Candidate\n\nRequisition was publicly advertised to satisfy corporate policy or legal compliance while an internal employee was already earmarked for the role.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `policy`\n- **Nature:** `incentive`\n- **Removability:** `none`\n\n### Causal Relations\n- Masks `M-002` — Stronger Competing Candidate in Final Cohort\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Cannot be asserted as fact without internal hiring log confirmation.",
    "id": "M-005",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "Requisition was publicly advertised to satisfy corporate policy or legal compliance while an internal employee was already earmarked for the role.",
    "operates_at": [
      "B-013",
      "B-001",
      "B-003",
      "B-007"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "A-002",
        "fidelity": "euphemism",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-004"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "A-003",
        "fidelity": "euphemism",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-004"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "policy",
      "nature": "incentive",
      "visibility": "opaque",
      "removability": "none"
    },
    "amplifies": [],
    "masks": [
      "M-002"
    ],
    "evidence_level": "supported",
    "honest_baseline": false,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "transcript",
        "label": "Final round, an aside",
        "context": "minute 41",
        "lines": [
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "41:02",
            "text": "How many people are you seeing for this?",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Hiring manager",
            "at": "41:11",
            "text": "You are the third external. There is also someone internal who has been covering part of the scope since spring.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "41:26",
            "text": "Understood. Is that a formal candidacy?",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Hiring manager",
            "at": "41:31",
            "text": "It is. We post externally regardless — that is policy.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "Nothing improper is described. The posting is real, the process is real, and the odds were set before the first external application arrived."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Cannot be asserted as fact without internal hiring log confirmation."
    ]
  }
}