diff --git a/contracts/capability/qualification.go b/contracts/capability/qualification.go
index 895a7ed..740a1ca 100644
--- a/contracts/capability/qualification.go
+++ b/contracts/capability/qualification.go
@@ -56,3 +56,17 @@ func (m QualificationManifest) Validate() error {
 	}
 	return nil
 }
+
+// QualificationState projects evidence into a qualification result. It does
+// not activate a binding or mutate the model registry.
+func (m QualificationManifest) QualificationState() QualificationState {
+	if m.Validate() != nil {
+		return QualificationRejected
+	}
+	for _, measurement := range m.Measurements {
+		if measurement.Result != EvaluationSupported {
+			return QualificationRejected
+		}
+	}
+	return QualificationValidated
+}
diff --git a/dev/ACTIVE_TASK.json b/dev/ACTIVE_TASK.json
index 9c98be5..195572d 100644
--- a/dev/ACTIVE_TASK.json
+++ b/dev/ACTIVE_TASK.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "task_file": "dev/tasks/DEV-000112-model-qualification-manifest.json",
-  "task_id": "DEV-000112",
+  "task_file": "dev/tasks/DEV-000113-model-qualification-gate.json",
+  "task_id": "DEV-000113",
   "task_revision": 1
 }
diff --git a/dev/tasks/DEV-000113-model-qualification-gate.json b/dev/tasks/DEV-000113-model-qualification-gate.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1829753
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/tasks/DEV-000113-model-qualification-gate.json
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{
+  "task_id": "DEV-000113",
+  "task_revision": 1,
+  "architecture_revision": "ADR-0018",
+  "base_repo_revision": "1f01b70",
+  "risk_tier": "E",
+  "intent": "Add a deterministic qualification gate that maps complete supported evidence to VALIDATED and incomplete/unsupported evidence to REJECTED without changing activation.",
+  "requirement_ids": ["WP-201", "Qualification decision", "GPU/resource evidence cannot be inferred"],
+  "allowed_change_scope": {"modules": ["capability-model-qualification"], "paths": ["contracts/capability/**", "tests/model_qualification/**", "dev/ACTIVE_TASK.json", "dev/tasks/DEV-000113-model-qualification-gate.json"]},
+  "forbidden_change_scope": {"paths": ["architecture/**", "database/**", "migrations/**", "deploy/**", "security/**", "modules/**", "cmd/**", "runtime/**", "adapters/**", ".gitea/**"]},
+  "allowed_architecture_delta": {"new_cross_module_dependencies": 0, "new_canonical_owners": 0, "new_privileges": 0, "new_third_party_dependencies": 0, "new_database_owner_roles": 0},
+  "contracts": {"consume": ["QualificationManifest from DEV-000112", "Existing QualificationState and EvaluationResult values"], "may_change": ["Qualification gate projection"]},
+  "semantic_owner": "capability-model-qualification",
+  "canonical_state": [],
+  "state_transitions": ["complete supported manifest -> VALIDATED", "incomplete/unsupported/unknown manifest -> REJECTED"],
+  "side_effects_and_privileges": ["Pure validation; no binding activation, provider call, deployment, credential access or external mutation"],
+  "persistence_and_migrations": ["No schema or migration changes"],
+  "failure_retry_restart": ["Gate is deterministic; a new manifest revision is required after new measurements"],
+  "assumptions": ["Qualification and activation remain separate lifecycle decisions", "All required dimensions are mandatory", "Model names never substitute for evidence"],
+  "acceptance_scenarios": ["All supported measurements produce VALIDATED", "Unsupported resource/restart result produces REJECTED", "Unknown measurement produces REJECTED", "Gate does not mutate binding activation"],
+  "required_tests": ["go test ./...", "go vet ./...", "go run ./cmd/devctl preflight -active dev/ACTIVE_TASK.json", "go run ./cmd/devctl check-diff -active dev/ACTIVE_TASK.json", "go run ./cmd/devctl check-architecture", "go run ./cmd/devctl/independent", "git diff --check", "qualification gate tests"],
+  "terminal_gap_states": ["BLOCKED_BY_MISSING_CAPABILITY", "BLOCKED_BY_SPEC_GAP", "BLOCKED_BY_CONFLICT"]
+}
diff --git a/tests/model_qualification/qualification_test.go b/tests/model_qualification/qualification_test.go
index 6263dea..920d095 100644
--- a/tests/model_qualification/qualification_test.go
+++ b/tests/model_qualification/qualification_test.go
@@ -21,3 +21,23 @@ func TestQualificationManifestRequiresAllEvidenceDimensions(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("expected incomplete manifest to be rejected")
 	}
 }
+
+func TestQualificationGateRejectsUnsupportedEvidence(t *testing.T) {
+	manifest := completeManifest()
+	if state := manifest.QualificationState(); state != capability.QualificationValidated {
+		t.Fatalf("state = %s", state)
+	}
+	manifest.Measurements[0].Result = capability.EvaluationUnsupported
+	if state := manifest.QualificationState(); state != capability.QualificationRejected {
+		t.Fatalf("unsupported state = %s", state)
+	}
+}
+
+func completeManifest() capability.QualificationManifest {
+	dimensions := []capability.QualificationDimension{capability.DimensionDialogue, capability.DimensionInterpretation, capability.DimensionCoding, capability.DimensionResearch, capability.DimensionUncertainty, capability.DimensionContext, capability.DimensionLatency, capability.DimensionResources, capability.DimensionRestart}
+	measurements := make([]capability.QualificationMeasurement, 0, len(dimensions))
+	for _, dimension := range dimensions {
+		measurements = append(measurements, capability.QualificationMeasurement{Dimension: dimension, Result: capability.EvaluationSupported, Artifact: "artifact:" + string(dimension)})
+	}
+	return capability.QualificationManifest{ID: "manifest-1", ModelDescriptorID: "model-1", ModelRevision: 2, ModelFingerprint: "sha256:model", BenchmarkVersion: "holdout-v1", HoldoutCorpusDigest: "sha256:corpus", LicenseEvidence: "license:approved", DataPolicyEvidence: "policy:local", Measurements: measurements, ObservedAtUnixMillis: 10}
+}