Registry / Mechanisms / M-002

M Mechanism (M-002)

Honest Baseline Exogenous (No Agency)

Stronger Competing Candidate in Final Cohort

Candidate cleared all passing bars, but another applicant in the same pipeline demonstrated superior domain overlap or lower onboarding overhead.

Classification Facets

Actor Locus: candidate

Nature: rule

Visibility: opaque

Removability: none

Structural Funnel Gates (Barriers) Where Mechanism Operates

B-007: Hiring Manager In-Depth Review Stage: hiring-manager B-008: Team & Cross-Functional Panel Stage: team B-010: Headcount & Executive Budget Approval Stage: offer

Observable Signals Emitted (Artifacts)

A-002 Fidelity: euphemism

Generic "closer alignment" rejection template

A-003 Fidelity: distortion

Position closed after final interview without hire

Explicit Forensic Non-Inferences:

Does not mean candidate had negative feedback; relative cohort ranking is outside candidate control.

Causal Graph Relations

Masks (Provides plausible cover for):

M-001: Genuine Technical Skill Shortfall

Machine-readable static endpoint: /api/v1/mechanisms/M-002.json