{
  "id": "ally.aligned",
  "term": "ally",
  "sense": "aligned",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 15,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A thing whose reach a self model reads as working with its own against the same walls.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "reach.action",
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "read.information",
      "work.effort",
      "against.opposition",
      "wall.range-end"
    ],
    "interaction": "Two reaches read as pointed at the same walls add up; the alliance lasts as long as the reading of a shared wall does, and ends when that wall is gone.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "reach added across two things",
      "an alignment that dies with its shared wall"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "enemy.against",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "an enemy's reach is read as set against one's own walls"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "alliance",
    "alliances",
    "allied",
    "allies",
    "ally"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ally.aligned"
}