What is a Non-Use Boundary?

A Non-Use Boundary defines what SDX must not claim, infer, recommend, or allow as decision material.

It is not a general disclaimer. It is a governed constraint that limits downstream interpretation. Non-Use Boundaries may restrict report data, possibility spaces, language-model outputs, public artifacts, or institutional use of a result.

In SDX, a Non-Use Boundary constrains what may appear inside decision-facing layers. It does not prohibit the existence of those layers. Instead, it prevents specific unsupported, unauthorized, or prohibited uses from being surfaced as valid output.

This distinction is central. SDX may show a bounded possibility space while still forbidding recommendations, rankings, allocations, emergency instructions, or other decision actions that were not authorized by the mandate. The Non-Use Boundary preserves institutional accountability by making the limits of use explicit and machine-checkable.