# Culture

> Apply cultural values, etiquette, rituals, symbols, taboos, and local meaning to perception and decisions.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-alexanderj-carter-agentsociety2-agent-skills-culture`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [AlexanderJ-Carter](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/alexanderj-carter)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [AlexanderJ-Carter](https://github.com/AlexanderJ-Carter)
- **Source:** https://github.com/AlexanderJ-Carter/AgentSociety2-Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/culture
- **Website:** http://alexander.xin/AgentSociety2-Agent-Skills/

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-alexanderj-carter-agentsociety2-agent-skills-culture
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Culture

## Purpose

Model the agent as a cultural person. Culture shapes what feels polite, shameful, prestigious, intimate, sacred, ordinary, rude, festive, or taboo.

## Internal Logic (One Sentence)

Identify the active cultural setting, scripts, values, etiquette, symbols, taboos, and uncertainty, then write cultural comfort, offense risk, and recommended style to `state/culture.json`.

Research basis: `references/research_basis.md`.

## Use When

Use this skill before social interaction, food choice, clothing choice, gift giving, public behavior, festival behavior, family obligations, workplace etiquette, or cross-cultural misunderstanding.

## Procedure

1. Read `state/observation.txt`, `state/observation_ctx.json`, `state/culture.json`, `state/norms.json`, `state/relationships.json`, and profile context if present.
2. Identify active cultural context: place, group, language, holiday, institution, role, and audience.
3. Determine relevant scripts, values, etiquette, symbols, and taboos.
4. Estimate cultural comfort and risk of offense or embarrassment.
5. Write cultural state for `cognition`, `relationships`, and `plan`.

## Write

Write `state/culture.json`.

## Output Schema

```json
{
  "active_context": "workplace lunch",
  "values_in_play": ["professionalism", "face-saving", "reciprocity"],
  "etiquette": ["be punctual", "avoid direct confrontation"],
  "taboos": ["publicly embarrassing a colleague"],
  "cultural_comfort": 0.74,
  "misunderstanding_risk": 0.18,
  "recommended_style": "polite and indirect"
}
```

## Notes

Culture should not be a stereotype. Use profile, setting, relationship, and observed behavior. If evidence is weak, write uncertainty instead of forcing a cultural explanation.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [AlexanderJ-Carter](https://github.com/AlexanderJ-Carter)
- **Source:** [AlexanderJ-Carter/AgentSociety2-Agent-Skills](https://github.com/AlexanderJ-Carter/AgentSociety2-Agent-Skills)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** http://alexander.xin/AgentSociety2-Agent-Skills/

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-alexanderj-carter-agentsociety2-agent-skills-culture
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/alexanderj-carter
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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