contacts

Manage the user's contacts, relationship graph, access control (trusted contacts), and invite links. This skill covers contact CRUD with multi-channel tracking, controlling who can message the assistant through external channels (Telegram, phone), and creating/managing invite links that grant access. ## Contact Management > **Every contact write goes through the guardian.** You can list and search contacts on your own. To create, edit, delete, merge, or bind a channel to one, run the matching command below: each opens a form in the guardian's app, and the write happens only if they submit it. You are proposing, not writing. Say so: "I'll put that up for you to confirm," not "Done." > > Two things a contact record does **not** do: it grants no access (a record has no channels, so nobody can message the assistant through it), and it is not a channel. Use `assistant contacts channels add <contact_id>` to bind an address to a contact that already exists, or `assistant contacts invites create` to let someone bind their own. > > The form needs the guardian's desktop or web app to be open. If a command reports that it timed out, nobody answered: tell the user, and do not retry in a loop. > > One exception you must not take: the `contact_merge` tool writes immediately, with no confirmation. Use `assistant contacts merge` instead, so the guardian sees what is being combined before the donor record is deleted. > > A form the guardian closes without answering is not a failure. The com...