Adaptive Ethical Agency (AEA) — Public Working Draft 0.5.5-7

Default first read: Start Here. Academic second look: Academic Overview. Canonical source of claims: AEA Original. One versioned record, one DOI. This release contains three companion documents under one versioned record: Start Here, Academic Overview, and AEA Original (Manifesto Edition). AEA Original is the canonical source of the framework’s claims. Start Here and Academic Overview are interpretive entry points, not independent editions of the theory. Brief Chinese glosses, where present, clarify terminology and do not constitute a separate canonical text. AEA Original (Manifesto Edition) presents the full working formulation of Adaptive Ethical Agency (AEA), a developing relational ethics framework. It preserves the framework’s conceptual lineage, ethical orientation, manifesto language, and full claims — including its evaluative lens, principles, limits, and failure path. Academic Overview provides an analytical entrance to its distinctions, evaluative questions, limitations, and open research directions. Start Here tells a first reader what this is, where to read, how to cite, and how mature it is. Academic Overview does not replace AEA Original. None of the three documents is presented as an empirically validated instrument or a peer-reviewed academic edition. A Zenodo DOI makes the record locatable and citable; it is not a certification of academic quality or peer review.