{
  "registry_version": "2026.08.2",
  "data": {
    "title": "Feedback naming as absent something the submitted work contains",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [],
    "content": "# Feedback naming as absent something the submitted work contains\n\nThe stated shortfall is the absence of work that is present in what the candidate submitted, at the path they gave.\n\n### Diagnostic Non-Inferences\n- Does not establish that the work was never opened, only that the claim and the submission disagree.\n- Does not establish that the work would have met the bar had it been read.",
    "id": "A-019",
    "type": "artifact",
    "summary": "The stated shortfall is the absence of work that is present in what the candidate submitted, at the path they gave.",
    "stages": [
      "screening",
      "technical"
    ],
    "evidence_level": "hypothesis",
    "probes": [
      {
        "id": "PROBE-A-019-1",
        "action": "Open the submitted path in a private window with no session, and note what the first screen shows before any navigation.",
        "expected_signal": "Establishes what a reader with no context and no time actually lands on.",
        "cost": "low",
        "outcomes": [
          {
            "id": "named-work-on-first-screen",
            "label": "The work named as absent is visible on the first screen, without navigating.",
            "excludes": [],
            "because": ""
          },
          {
            "id": "reachable-but-buried",
            "label": "The work is there, but behind a non-default branch, a subdirectory, or an account other than the candidate's own.",
            "excludes": [],
            "because": ""
          },
          {
            "id": "not-reachable",
            "label": "The path does not resolve, or resolves to something private.",
            "excludes": [],
            "because": ""
          },
          {
            "id": "no-path-was-given",
            "label": "No path was submitted; the claim rests on the profile text alone.",
            "excludes": [],
            "because": ""
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "email",
        "label": "Feedback after screening",
        "subject": "Following your application",
        "lines": [
          {
            "text": "The team was looking for evidence of distributed systems work, and we did not see any in your materials.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "text": "We would encourage you to apply again once you have that experience.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "The submitted index named three services and the path to each.",
            "tell": true
          }
        ],
        "reading": "Two sentences that cannot both hold. Either the work is absent or it was not opened — and only the second is consistent with a submission that names it."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "candidate",
        "sees": "A shortfall named in terms of something missing, against a submission that contains it — at a path that was given, in a file that opens.",
        "reads": "Absent and insufficient are different claims. A reader who opened the work and judged it thin would say thin; the word missing describes a surface, and the surface may not be the one the work is on.",
        "does": "Checks what the given path actually resolves to for someone with no context: default branch, first screen, whether the work sits under another organisation's account."
      },
      {
        "actor": "recruiter",
        "sees": "A profile and a link. Opening the link leads to a listing whose relevance is not decidable without reading code.",
        "reads": "The submission is a claim to be passed on, not one to be assessed here. What can be checked at this desk is whether the requirement's keywords appear.",
        "does": "Records against the requirement using what the profile states, and forwards the link unopened to whoever can read it."
      },
      {
        "actor": "hiring-manager",
        "sees": "A repository opened for a few minutes between meetings, landing on whatever the default branch shows first.",
        "reads": "What the first screen shows stands for the whole, because there is no time to establish that it does not. A layout that buries the work reads the same as an absence of it.",
        "does": "Writes the note against what was seen, in the vocabulary of what was expected to be there."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Does not establish that the work was never opened, only that the claim and the submission disagree.",
      "Does not establish that the work would have met the bar had it been read."
    ]
  }
}