{
  "id": "skill.ability",
  "term": "skill",
  "sense": "ability",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 20,
  "arena": "skill.ability",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a learned ability to perform actions in a place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "learn.cognitive",
      "experience.cognitive",
      "ability.capacity",
      "act.deed",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "learn.cognitive and experience.cognitive together enable the development of an ability.capacity that allows for act.deed within space.extent",
    "novel_properties": [
      "contextual competence",
      "practical efficacy",
      "situated readiness"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A Tokyo subway operator trains for earthquake response drills every quarter since 1995.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Mozart composed symphonies by age eight after years of guided practice with his father.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars Curiosity rover adjusts its driving path using software learned from 10,000 Earth-based terrain simulations.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "ability.capacity",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "action.deed",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "career.occupation",
    "practice.skill",
    "pro.professional",
    "technical.skill"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "skill",
    "skills"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts to align components with the definition, which remained substantively accurate but was slightly tightened for clarity."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-skill.ability"
}