C.25:14.2 - Mechanism and status are gating slots

Mechanisms and statuses may be load-bearing for admissibility, but they do not become measurements merely because they matter. A redundancy mechanism may be required for claiming a resilience bundle, and a certification status may be required for external publication, yet neither slot is itself the Measures[CHR] head.

This matters because many quality arguments fail by turning mechanism presence into an implicit hidden score.