Decorative Isolation: Non-Burden-Bearing Separation Claims in Consequence-Bearing AI Systems

This release is a separate public doctrinal specification aligned with the authored Applicability Boundary Doctrine. It should be read alongside the canonical baseline publication of the Applicability Boundary Doctrine, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19425317, the doctrinal extension, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19443895, the separate doctrinal specification on epistemic applicability, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19447536, the separate doctrinal specification on reality verification, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19457414, the separate doctrinal specification on approval-execution separation, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19462291, the separate doctrinal specification on substrate integrity, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19463230, the separate doctrinal specification on human-institutional responsibility, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19476910, the separate doctrinal specification on decorative governance, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19478004, the separate doctrinal evaluation module on vendor claim admissibility, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19487979, the separate doctrinal evaluation module on memory, context, delegation, and manual boundary integrity, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19502406, the separate doctrinal technical specification on formal conditions of standing and re-sanctioning, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19599888, the separate doctrinal evaluation module on update-rule admissibility and standing preservation, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19616417, the separate doctrinal technical specification on irreversibility posture and the boundary of governance automation, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19636475, the separate doctrinal technical specification on deterministic liability, pressure isolation, and mission invalidation, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19655615, the commercial companion note on deterministic liability and insurer readability, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19657625, and the Evidence Standing Envelope specification, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20276203. This publication defines Decorative Isolation as a non-burden-bearing separation claim. It is a separation-claim extension of the prior Decorative Governance publication. Decorative Governance concerns oversight without burden-bearing force. Decorative Isolation concerns separation without burden-bearing containment. The central claim is that a declared isolation claim has consequence-bearing standing only when the separation being asserted is supported by a declared leakage model, pressure condition, common-cause dependency analysis, observability method, boundary orientation, and recovery path. Where these elements are absent, incomplete, untested, or absorbed through human adaptation and manual compensation, the claim is non-burden-bearing. This release also includes Commercial Companion Note 03: Isolation Standing and Insurer-Readable Separation Claims. The companion note translates the doctrinal specification into insurer-readable, procurement-readable, board-readable, and audit-readable evidence categories without disclosing the paid evaluation method, scoring rubric, schema library, domain-specific rollout path, implementation architecture, or commercial artifact package. The publication is domain-neutral and consequence-class based. It is relevant to consequence-bearing AI, AI governance, cybersecurity, cloud and SaaS, banking and model risk, insurance, healthcare AI, public-sector AI, employment and education systems, legal and sanctions workflows, supply-chain and procurement, critical infrastructure, industrial automation, autonomous vehicles, robotics, aviation, maritime and offshore operations, defense, national security systems, and other environments where separation claims are used to support consequence-bearing reliance. This release does not replace any prior doctrinal publication. 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