# Relationships

> Update interpersonal familiarity, trust, liking, obligation, conflict, and shared history.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-alexanderj-carter-agentsociety2-agent-skills-relationships`
- **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/relationships
- **Website:** http://alexander.xin/AgentSociety2-Agent-Skills/

## Install

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

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

## About

# Relationships

## Purpose

Maintain social continuity between agents. This skill turns repeated interaction into relationship state instead of treating every encounter as new.

Research basis: `references/research_basis.md`.

## Internal Logic (One Sentence)

Read recent social interaction and prior relationship state, update bounded familiarity, trust, liking, obligation, conflict, respect, and optional opinion-influence weights, then write `state/relationships.json` and notable social events.

## Use When

Use this skill after conversations, cooperation, conflict, promises, favors, gifts, avoidance, betrayal, or repeated co-presence.

## Procedure

1. Read `state/observation.txt`, `state/observation_ctx.json`, `state/relationships.json`, `state/memory.jsonl`, `state/emotion.json`, and profile context if present.
2. Identify people involved and what happened.
3. Update familiarity, trust, liking, obligation, conflict, respect, and last interaction.
4. Add or revise shared history tags.
5. If agents exchanged opinions, update a lightweight influence weight: repeated trust and expertise increase weight; betrayal, conflict, or low credibility decrease it.
6. Write relationship state. If the event is notable, append a social memory through the memory skill or directly to `state/social_events.jsonl`.

If deterministic baseline is preferred, run `scripts/update_relationships.py` first, then optionally refine subtle social interpretation with LLM reasoning.

## Write

Write `state/relationships.json`. Optionally append `state/social_events.jsonl`.

## Output Schema

```json
{
  "people": {
    "alice": {
      "familiarity": 0.62,
      "trust": 0.71,
      "liking": 0.55,
      "obligation": 0.2,
      "conflict": 0.05,
      "respect": 0.58,
      "influence_weight": 0.34,
      "last_interaction": "brief friendly chat at cafe",
      "shared_history_tags": ["cafe", "work"]
    }
  }
}
```

## Notes

Trust and conflict should change more slowly than momentary emotion. A single event can strongly affect a relationship only if it is high-stakes, public, repeated, or identity-relevant.

Consensus note: if multiple trusted people provide opinions about the same uncertain issue, later `cognition` or `media_literacy` can average those opinions using relationship influence weights. This follows DeGroot-style consensus as a simple social influence baseline, not as a claim that real groups always converge.

## 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-relationships
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/alexanderj-carter
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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