A new public layer is now part of the corpus. DEA - Document to Experience Artifact - addresses a simple but structural question: When does input become experience?
Today, many systems can ingest, parse, summarize, embed, store, and retrieve.
That is not the same thing as learning.
If an input is only stored, indexed, or retrieved, then nothing has happened except data handling.
For experience to exist, something else must be true:
- interpretation must change
- state must be re-weighted or constrained
- behavior must remain altered across time
- consequences must be traceable
That is the boundary DEA tries to formalize.
In this framework, input is not defined by format.
It is defined by its ability to alter continuity.
So DEA is not about documents alone. It is about the moment when any input stops being inert material and becomes a persistent part of future cognition, action, or constraint.
This also makes the wider stack cleaner.
DEA defines when input becomes experience. EA-L4 / EATP defines how experience enters training. L4 Witness defines when experience becomes evidence.
In short:
Input -> Experience -> Training -> Evidence
That distinction matters more than it may first appear.
Because a system that cannot distinguish storage from experience will eventually confuse: memory with learning, retrieval with understanding, and processing with continuity.
DEA is now published as a public package in the corpus. AGI here still means Advanced Global Intelligence. SER remains the SER normative core. DEA sits beside that layer as an upstream protocol for experience formation.
The future is not an event. It is a process.