AI Agents

The Arkade Agent Skill gives AI coding agents direct access to the Arkade SDK. Agents can create wallets, send and receive Bitcoin, pay Lightning invoices, swap stablecoins, and manage VTXOs programmatically.

Install the Skill

Install into your coding agent using the Vercel Skills CLI:

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Any Agent

pnpm dlx skills add arkade-os/skill --agent claude-code

Verify by typing /skills inside Claude Code.

pnpm dlx skills add arkade-os/skill --agent cursor

This creates a .cursor/skills/ directory in your project.

pnpm dlx skills add arkade-os/skill

Auto-discovers supported agents. Add -g for user-level (global) installation.

Once installed, the agent can read SKILL.md and build with the full Arkade SDK: wallets, payments, Lightning, contracts, and stablecoin swaps.

Quick Start

The skill package provides three high-level classes that wrap the SDK:

import { Wallet, MnemonicIdentity } from '@arkade-os/sdk'
import { generateMnemonic } from '@scure/bip39'
import { wordlist } from '@scure/bip39/wordlists/english'
import {
  ArkadeBitcoinSkill,
  ArkadeLightningSkill,
  LendaSwapSkill,
} from '@arkade-os/skill'

const mnemonic = generateMnemonic(wordlist)
const identity = MnemonicIdentity.fromMnemonic(mnemonic)

const wallet = await Wallet.create({
  identity,
  arkServerUrl: 'https://arkade.computer',
})

// Bitcoin: instant offchain payments
const bitcoin = new ArkadeBitcoinSkill(wallet)
const arkadeAddress = await bitcoin.getArkadeAddress()
const balance = await bitcoin.getBalance()
await bitcoin.send({ address: 'ark1q...', amount: 50000 })

// Lightning: pay and receive via Boltz submarine swaps
const lightning = new ArkadeLightningSkill({ wallet })
const invoice = await lightning.createInvoice({ amount: 25000 })

// Stablecoins: non-custodial BTC/USDC/USDT atomic swaps
const lendaswap = new LendaSwapSkill({ wallet })
const quote = await lendaswap.getQuoteBtcToStablecoin(100000, 'usdc_pol')

Use MnemonicIdentity or SeedIdentity for new agent wallets. SingleKey is still available, but the SDK README treats it as a backward-compatibility path rather than the default.

Available Skills

Skill	Capabilities
ArkadeBitcoinSkill	Arkade addresses, balances, send/receive BTC, onboard/offboard ramps, transaction history
ArkadeLightningSkill	Create invoices, pay invoices, swap fees/limits, swap tracking
LendaSwapSkill	BTC/USDC/USDT quotes and swaps on Polygon, Ethereum, Arbitrum

Networks

Network	Server URL	Explorer
Bitcoin mainnet	`https://arkade.computer`	arkade.space
Mutinynet (testnet)	`https://mutinynet.arkade.sh`	explorer.mutinynet.arkade.sh
Signet	`https://signet.arkade.sh`	explorer.signet.arkade.sh
Regtest (local)	`http://localhost:7070`	Run `nigiri start --ark`

Docs MCP Server

You can also connect your agent to searchable Arkade documentation via MCP:

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claude mcp add --transport http arkade-docs https://docs.arkadeos.com/mcp

Add --scope user for global access across projects. Verify with /mcp.

Add to .cursor/mcp.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "arkade-docs": {
      "url": "https://docs.arkadeos.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

GitHub Repository

Source code, SKILL.md reference, and issue tracker.

Getting Started

Bitcoin

Advanced Features

Install the Skill

Quick Start

Available Skills

Networks

Docs MCP Server

GitHub Repository

​Install the Skill

​Quick Start

​Available Skills

​Networks

​Docs MCP Server

GitHub Repository

Install the Skill

Quick Start

Available Skills

Networks

Docs MCP Server