# Neurotechnology API Surface **Entity class:** Technology, method, or technical system **Type:** Software-interface concept **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Primary source:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] ## Definition Neurotechnology API Surface is a software-interface concept identified in the source article's the programmable boundary through which operating systems and applications consume neural input layer. ## Relationships [[wiki/Neurotechnology API Surface|Neurotechnology API Surface]] is related to [[wiki/BCI Human Interface Device|BCI Human Interface Device]] as the programmable boundary through which operating systems and applications consume neural input. <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> ## Source route [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] ## Related Work in the Corpus <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - In [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]], **VII.9 — Operating-System Integration and the BCI HID Layer** provides the narrative context for **Neurotechnology API Surface**: The decisive infrastructural transition of 2025 was Apple's announcement of the BCI HID (Brain-Computer Interface Human Interface Device) protocol — a native operating-system specification for accepting input from brain-computer… <!-- END HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 -->