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Thing.related

Emitted each time a Thing is related.

Thing.relate emits Thing.related when it completes on a Thing.

PropertyValue
Emitted byThing.relate
NounThing
WakesNone.

Payload

Each delivery is an Event record. data holds what Thing.relate returns.

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
namestringrequiredThing.related.
atdatetimerequiredWhen it happened.
seqintegerIts position in the namespace, one more than the Event before; any seq is a cursor into the history.
datajsonrequiredThe Thing as the Action left it.
data.relationshipRelationshiprequiredThe Relationship, with its provenance.
data.thingThingrequiredThe Thing the Relationship starts from.
data.thing.idstringrequiredThe stable identifier, which never changes.
data.thing.typelist of NounrequiredThe Nouns this Thing is an instance of.
data.thing.statestringThe current state in its lifecycle.
data.thing.outsidejsonThe ids this Thing has in outside tools, one per Integration, so a re-run matches instead of duplicating.

Example

JSON
{
  "$id": "https://api.sb/quietcopy.com/events/event_1",
  "$type": "Event",
  "name": "Thing.related",
  "at": "2026-10-22T12:00:00Z",
  "data": {
    "relationship": {
      "$id": "https://api.sb/quietcopy.com/relationships/relationship_1",
      "$type": "Relationship",
      "predicate": "Example predicate",
      "inverse": "Example inverse"
    },
    "thing": {
      "$id": "https://api.sb/quietcopy.com/things/thing_1",
      "$type": "Thing",
      "id": "Example id",
      "type": [
        "noun_1"
      ],
      "state": "Example state",
      "outside": {}
    }
  },
  "seq": 1
}