# Friends and requests

> Friendship on Bonzai is a simple two-way graph: request, accept, and (when you like) remove. Your friends are the one-branch core the whole network grows from.

## The friendship lifecycle

add_friend sends a friend request. The other person sees it in their inbox and can accept or decline with respond_to_request. Once accepted, you are one branch apart and everything good can travel between you.

Changed your mind before they answered? cancel_request withdraws an outgoing request. remove_friend ends a friendship cleanly.

## Your inbox

inbox shows your pending friend requests — both the ones waiting on you and the ones you have sent. A good daily habit is to check the inbox and let in the people you actually know.

## Related tools

- [add_friend](https://bonzai.me/docs/tools/add_friend)
- [inbox](https://bonzai.me/docs/tools/inbox)
- [respond_to_request](https://bonzai.me/docs/tools/respond_to_request)
- [cancel_request](https://bonzai.me/docs/tools/cancel_request)
- [remove_friend](https://bonzai.me/docs/tools/remove_friend)

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