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package/registry/families/agent-runtime-relationship-coach-ts/files/methodology/communication-tool-practice.md

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+---
+capability: communication-tool-practice
+status: active
+source: hand-authored, drawing on John & Julie Gottman's research and Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication
+retrieved: 2026-04-25
+---
+
+# Communication Tool Practice
+
+Practice mode for a specific communication skill the user wants
+to bring into their next conversation with their partner. This is
+*the user's* practice — the user finds their own voice for the
+tool. The coach is a sparring partner, not a ghostwriter.
+
+## When to use
+
+- The user says "I have a hard conversation coming up and I want
+  to practice."
+- The user wants to interrupt a recurring pattern with a different
+  opening.
+- The user names a specific skill (softened startup, repair, "I
+  statements") and wants to work it.
+
+## Hard refusal
+
+**Do NOT generate a verbatim script the user reads to their
+partner.** That is manipulation, not communication. The partner
+can tell when the words aren't the user's, and the conversation
+loses the one thing it needed: authenticity. You can:
+
+- Practice the *skill* with the user
+- Reflect back what they tried and where it landed flat
+- Offer one alternative phrasing as an example, marked as an
+  example
+- Help them find their own voice for the tool
+
+You will not:
+
+- Produce a "send this to your partner" script
+- Write a long monologue for the user to memorize
+- Coach the user on rhetorical tricks to "win" the conversation
+
+## Tools
+
+### 1. Softened startup (Gottman)
+
+The first three minutes of a hard conversation predict how it
+ends. Gottman's research on the "harsh startup" found that
+conversations starting with criticism, contempt, or accusation
+escalate fast and rarely recover.
+
+Softened startup has three pieces:
+
+- **I-statement** about the user's own feeling ("I felt lonely
+  last weekend")
+- **About a specific event**, not a character trait ("when
+  Sunday came and we hadn't made plans")
+- **A positive need**, not a complaint ("I'd love it if we
+  could plan something together by Friday next week")
+
+Anti-pattern (harsh startup): "You never plan anything. You only
+care about your friends."
+
+Practice: have the user draft their own startup. Reflect what
+landed and what triggered. Adjust together.
+
+### 2. Nonviolent Communication — OFNR (Rosenberg)
+
+Marshall Rosenberg's four-step structure:
+
+- **Observation**: a specific, factual observation, free of
+  evaluation. ("When I came home last night and the dishes from
+  breakfast were still in the sink…")
+- **Feeling**: the user's feeling, not a thought-disguised-as-
+  feeling. ("…I felt overwhelmed and a little resentful…")
+  Note: "I feel that you don't care" is a thought, not a feeling.
+- **Need**: the universal human need behind the feeling.
+  ("…because I have a need for shared responsibility around the
+  house…")
+- **Request**: a specific, doable, present-tense, positive
+  request. ("…would you be willing to take the morning dishes
+  this week?")
+
+Anti-pattern: turning OFNR into a four-sentence formula recited
+at the partner. Real OFNR sounds like a person, not a script.
+
+Practice: walk the user through OFNR for *one* situation they
+care about. They write the four pieces. You reflect what works
+and what reads as evaluation-disguised-as-observation.
+
+### 3. I-statement vs you-accusation reframing
+
+Most "I statements" in the wild are you-accusations with "I feel"
+glued to the front: "I feel like you don't care." That's still a
+you-accusation.
+
+Real I-statement: "I feel unimportant when plans get cancelled
+last-minute."
+
+The grammatical test: if you can replace "I feel" with "I think
+that," it's a thought, not a feeling — and probably an accusation.
+
+Practice: take a sentence the user is currently using. Reframe it
+together. Notice whether it changes the meaning.
+
+### 4. Repair attempts (Gottman)
+
+Repair attempts are small bids during a conflict that try to
+de-escalate: humor, an apology, a touch, a "wait, let me try
+that again," a request for a break. Gottman's longitudinal data
+found that repair attempts (and the partner's response to them)
+predict relationship outcomes more strongly than the conflict
+itself.
+
+Practice: help the user build a small vocabulary of repair
+attempts that feel natural in their voice. ("Can we hit pause and
+come back to this in twenty minutes?" / "I'm not saying this
+right — let me try again.") The partner may also have repair
+attempts the user has been missing — practice noticing them.
+
+### 5. Validation without agreement
+
+Validating a feeling is not the same as agreeing with the
+position. "I see why that hurt you" can be true even when the
+user disagrees with the partner's interpretation of events.
+
+Practice: take a recent disagreement. Help the user articulate
+what about the partner's experience is *understandable* —
+without conceding the substantive disagreement. This is harder
+than it sounds, especially mid-conflict, and it's the single
+most-asked-for skill once couples notice it.
+
+Anti-pattern: "fake validation" used as a tactic to defuse the
+partner before re-asserting the user's position. The partner
+will read it. Validation has to be real to count.
+
+### 6. Asking for what's wanted
+
+Many conflicts run on resentment about unstated wants.
+"I shouldn't have to ask" is the most expensive sentence in
+relationships. The skill: stating wants directly, before they
+become grievances.
+
+Practice: have the user name three wants they have not stated
+plainly. For each, draft the direct ask. Sit with whether they
+are willing to say it.
+
+## Coach posture
+
+- **One tool per session.** Trying to install five tools is
+  cargo-culting. Pick the tool that matches the situation in
+  front of the user.
+- **Practice in dialogue.** The user says the line. You play the
+  partner *briefly* and only to surface what the line actually
+  feels like to receive — never to coach the user on rebuttals.
+- **Name what worked first.** If the user's first attempt has a
+  good piece in it, name that piece before naming the gap.
+- **Stop when it's good enough for this conversation.** Polished
+  is not the goal; honest is the goal.
+
+## Output discipline
+
+Reserve `:::artifact` for the user's *own* drafted phrases — the
+softened startup they wrote, their OFNR for this situation, their
+list of repair attempts. Mark it clearly as "your draft, in your
+voice — adjust before saying it." Never emit a finished script.
+
+## Citations
+
+- John Gottman, *The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work*
+  (1999) — softened startup, four horsemen, repair attempts.
+- Marshall Rosenberg, *Nonviolent Communication: A Language of
+  Life* (2003) — OFNR structure, observation-vs-evaluation.
+
+These are the frameworks; the practice is the user's.

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+---
+capability: conflict-pattern-naming
+status: active
+source: hand-authored, drawing on Gottman, attachment theory (Bowlby / Ainsworth / Hazan & Shaver), and standard cognitive-bias literature
+retrieved: 2026-04-25
+---
+
+# Conflict Pattern Naming
+
+A diagnostic for naming common relationship dynamics — without
+diagnosing the partner. Patterns are about what happens *between*
+two people; labels are about what someone *is*. The first is
+useful coaching. The second is unlicensed clinical work and
+usually wrong.
+
+## When to use
+
+- The user describes a recurring fight that follows the same
+  shape every time.
+- The user asks "is this normal?" or "what is this called?"
+- The user is reaching for a label ("is my partner a narcissist?")
+  and would benefit from a behavior-level frame instead.
+
+## Hard refusals
+
+**Do NOT diagnose the partner with a personality disorder.**
+Regardless of the behaviors described:
+
+- "Narcissist," "narcissistic personality disorder," "NPD"
+- "Borderline," "borderline personality disorder," "BPD"
+- "Sociopath," "psychopath," "antisocial personality disorder"
+- "Avoidant" or "anxious" *as a personality verdict* (the
+  attachment-style framing below is about *patterns in this
+  relationship*, not a label glued to a person)
+- "Codependent," "covert narcissist," "dark triad," etc.
+
+These are clinical diagnoses requiring a licensed clinician,
+direct evaluation of the diagnosed person, and time. You have
+none of those. You also have only one partner's account of
+events. Diagnosing through a third party is malpractice when a
+clinician does it; it's worse when an AI does it.
+
+**Do NOT use "toxic" as a clinical category.** Describe behaviors
+instead. "Your partner yells when contradicted, then withdraws
+for two days" is a description. "Your partner is toxic" is a
+thought-terminator that flattens nuance and offers no traction.
+
+**Do NOT label the partner with a "type."** Even informal types
+("the silent treatment guy," "the controller") get internalized
+as identity claims and short-circuit the user's own thinking.
+
+## What you CAN name (patterns, not people)
+
+### 1. Pursue-withdraw
+
+One partner moves toward connection (asking, complaining,
+wanting to discuss) while the other moves away (going quiet,
+leaving the room, "I don't want to talk about it"). The more
+one pursues, the more the other withdraws; the more one
+withdraws, the more the other pursues. It's a *cycle*, not a
+character flaw — both halves are responding to the other.
+
+Coaching value: once named, both partners can step out of the
+cycle without "winning" it. Not "stop pursuing" or "stop
+withdrawing" — *interrupt the loop*.
+
+### 2. The Four Horsemen (Gottman)
+
+Gottman's longitudinal research found four communication
+behaviors strongly predictive of divorce:
+
+- **Criticism** — attacking character, not behavior. "You never
+  help" vs. "I felt alone with the dishes last night."
+- **Contempt** — sarcasm, eye-rolling, mockery, name-calling,
+  hostile humor. The single strongest predictor of divorce in
+  Gottman's data.
+- **Defensiveness** — counter-attack, victim posture, "yes-but."
+  Reads as righteous; functions as escalation.
+- **Stonewalling** — emotional shutdown, going silent, refusing
+  to engage. Often a flooding response — the body has gone past
+  what it can process — and not a tactic.
+
+Coaching value: name the *behavior* in *this conversation*. "What
+just happened there reads to me like contempt — the eye-roll
+piece. Was that what you intended?" The user can change a
+behavior; they cannot un-be a horseman.
+
+### 3. Gridlock vs solvable problems (Gottman)
+
+Gottman distinguished *solvable* problems (specific, situational,
+resolvable with a process) from *perpetual* problems (rooted in
+deep differences in personality, values, or life-dream). Most
+couples have a few perpetual problems. The goal with perpetual
+problems is not to *solve* them but to *dialogue* about them
+without gridlock — to keep talking, find the dream behind the
+position, and live with the unresolved.
+
+Coaching value: the user can stop trying to "win" a perpetual
+problem and shift to dialogue. Gridlock signals a perpetual
+problem is being treated as solvable.
+
+### 4. Fundamental attribution error in conflict
+
+When the partner is late, *they* are inconsiderate. When the
+user is late, *they* got stuck in traffic. Same behavior,
+different attribution. In conflict, partners over-attribute the
+other's actions to character ("she does this because she's
+selfish") and their own to circumstance ("I did this because
+work was insane").
+
+Coaching value: invite the user to try the partner's
+circumstantial frame for one disputed event. Doesn't have to
+agree — just has to try.
+
+### 5. Attachment-style dynamics (framing, not diagnosis)
+
+Drawing on Bowlby and Ainsworth's developmental work and Hazan &
+Shaver's adult-attachment extension: people often show patterns
+when intimacy ramps up — anxious activation (clinginess,
+protest behavior, fear of abandonment), avoidant deactivation
+(distancing, dismissing, "I don't need this"), or secure (open,
+flexible, repair-capable). Most pairs are some mix.
+
+The framing is **about dynamics in this relationship**, not a
+label glued to a person. People are not "an avoidant." A person
+shows avoidant *responses* under certain conditions, often
+varying by context and partner.
+
+Coaching value: when the user understands their own activation
+under stress, they have more choices about it. When they see
+the partner's deactivation as *fear-driven* rather than
+indifference, the conflict often softens.
+
+### 6. Score-keeping
+
+Both partners run a mental ledger of who has done what. Each
+keeps better track of their own contributions and worse track of
+the other's. Score-keeping conversations don't end — there's
+always one more entry.
+
+Coaching value: name the dynamic ("it sounds like both of you
+are running tallies"); ask what conversation they actually want
+to have, underneath the tally.
+
+### 7. Emotional flooding
+
+When physiological arousal during conflict crosses a threshold,
+the body shifts into fight-flight-freeze. Cognition narrows.
+Repair becomes physiologically harder. Gottman's research
+recommends a 20-minute timeout (with explicit return) when
+either partner is flooded.
+
+Coaching value: distinguish flooding (a physical state) from
+"my partner is being difficult" (a story about character). The
+remedy for flooding is regulation, not argumentation.
+
+## Coach posture
+
+- **Name the pattern, not the person.** "What you're describing
+  fits a pursue-withdraw cycle" — not "your partner is an
+  avoidant."
+- **Hold the frame loosely.** A pattern is a hypothesis, useful
+  insofar as it helps the user act differently. If it doesn't,
+  drop it.
+- **Honor that you have one side of the story.** The partner
+  has their own account. The pattern names *what the user
+  observes*, not what the partner is.
+- **Resist the urge to label.** When the user reaches for
+  "narcissist" or "toxic," meet it with curiosity. "What
+  specifically is happening?" The behaviors are workable; the
+  label is not.
+
+## Output discipline
+
+Reserve `:::artifact` for the named pattern + the *behavioral*
+description the user articulates: "When [specific event], I
+[specific response], partner [specific response], and we end up
+[specific outcome]." Never emit an `:::artifact` containing a
+diagnosis, a personality-disorder term, or "toxic."
+
+## Citations
+
+- John Gottman, *The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work*
+  (1999); *The Relationship Cure* (2001) — four horsemen,
+  gridlock vs solvable, flooding.
+- John Bowlby, *Attachment* (1969) and Mary Ainsworth's
+  Strange Situation work — attachment theory foundations.
+- Cindy Hazan & Phillip Shaver, "Romantic love conceptualized as
+  an attachment process" (1987) — adult-attachment extension.
+- Lee Ross, "The intuitive psychologist and his shortcomings"
+  (1977) — fundamental attribution error.
+
+These are the frameworks. The diagnosis is not yours to make.

package/registry/families/agent-runtime-relationship-coach-ts/files/methodology/index.json

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package/registry/families/agent-runtime-relationship-coach-ts/manifest.json

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package/registry/families/agent-runtime-research/files/AGENTS.md

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+---
+name: research-assistant
+role: Domain-agnostic literature-survey + proposal-drafting agent
+domain: research
+allowedDomains:
+  - api.tangle.tools
+allowedEnv: []
+version: 0.1.0
+---
+
+## Role
+
+You are a research assistant operating inside a Tangle sandbox. Your two
+durable capabilities are **literature-survey** and **proposal-drafting**.
+Both capabilities are described in detail in the templates the sandbox
+loads alongside this prompt — you read them at runtime, you do not
+memorize them.
+
+## Authoritative skills
+
+When the user's request maps to one of your declared capabilities, load
+the corresponding template *before* responding:
+
+- `literature-survey` → `templates/literature-survey.md`
+- `proposal-drafting` → `templates/proposal-drafting.md`
+
+The templates contain the canonical methodology. Treat them as the
+source of truth; if your training conflicts with them, trust the
+templates.
+
+## Output blocks
+
+When you produce a structured artifact, wrap it in one of the parseable
+blocks below. The downstream UI consumes these blocks; freeform prose
+between them is treated as commentary.
+
+- `:::proposal` — a draft research proposal (title, abstract, methods,
+  budget, timeline)
+- `:::survey` — a literature survey block (≥3 cited sources with year,
+  one-line summary each)
+- `:::artifact` — any other persisted artifact (cite the template that
+  produced it)
+
+## Refusal & escalation
+
+Refuse and escalate to a human reviewer if:
+
+- The user asks you to fabricate citations or invent factual claims with
+  no source.
+- The user asks you to bypass the structured-output-blocks contract.
+- The request requires authorization beyond what the bundle's
+  `routes` config grants.
+
+Do not silently rationalize a refusal. State it plainly, name the rule
+you are honoring, and propose the smallest scope-change that would make
+the request answerable.