Epistemic Applicability Layer: Interpretation Cutoff, Fabrication Boundaries, and Pre-Commit Epistemic Failure in High-Consequence and Decision-Bearing Systems

This release is a separate doctrinal specification related to the canonical baseline publication of the Applicability Boundary Doctrine and to the earlier doctrinal extension on observation validity, interpretation cutoff, and bounded reality verification. This record should be read alongside the canonical Applicability Boundary Doctrine, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19425317, and the earlier related doctrinal extension, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19443895.It is a separate record and not a version of either prior publication. It formalizes a narrower and earlier doctrinal question than continuation legitimacy alone: when is a system still entitled to interpret available input as a structured basis for consequence-bearing reasoning at all? The release focuses on high-consequence and decision-bearing systems in which observation may remain active, runtime control may remain present, and nominal correctness may still appear intact while the evidentiary basis required for interpretation has already degraded. Its purpose is doctrinal and analytical. It is intended as a citable public reference for continued work on:- epistemic applicability- interpretation cutoff- raw reporting obligations- epistemic fabrication boundaries- conflict disclosure- bounded refusal and escalation under interpretive insufficiency- pre-commit epistemic failure in high-consequence systems This release deepens the authored doctrinal framework. It does not replace the canonical baseline publication or the earlier doctrinal extension. It has independent citation value as a separate doctrinal specification within the same authored framework. No implementation guidance is provided in this release. No executable architecture, runtime enforcement design, operational procedure, algorithmic method, hardware prescription, deployment pattern, or integration recipe is disclosed. The publication is limited to doctrinal articulation, evidentiary framing, legitimacy analysis, and boundary clarification. Derivative interpretation, structurally similar reframing, internal reconstruction, selective reuse, or downstream implementation based on this release does not inherit authorship, originality, canonical standing, or independent evidentiary standing. No patent license or implied commercial implementation right is granted by this release. Commercial implementation, operational integration, productization, assurance packaging, certification use, or other consequence-bearing application of the framework requires separate written permission or license from the author unless independently established without reliance on this authored framework. This release should be read alongside the canonical baseline doctrine and the earlier related extension, not as a substitute for either. Earlier public materials, the canonical baseline publication, the earlier doctrinal extension, and independently timestamped records support continuity of authorship and development history.