# Amy Roadmap

The live checklist for growing `amy` from a Marmot test-bed into a
full command-line mirror of Amethyst.

**How to use this file:** update it in the same PR that ships a
feature. Move rows between tables, adjust ordering, add non-goals.
This is the single source of truth for "what's left".

- What amy is + how to use it: [README.md](./README.md)
- The public contract + how to extend amy: [DEVELOPMENT.md](./DEVELOPMENT.md)
- Ongoing design plans: [plans/](./plans/)
- Shared work consumed here: [../commons/plans/](../commons/plans/)

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## North-star goal

> For every feature of the Amethyst Android app, there is a way to
> exercise it through `amy`, with byte-identical on-relay behaviour.

Why:

- Interop tests against the ~100 other Nostr clients need a
  reproducible harness that does not require running Android.
- Agents and LLMs can script real Amethyst flows without a GUI.
- Regressions in shared logic (signing, encryption, filter building,
  event parsing) become shell-scriptable.
- Power users get a command-line Amethyst for free.

**Non-goal:** Amy is not a second Nostr client implementation. It is
a thin assembly layer over `quartz` + `commons`. Protocol and business
logic in `cli/` are bugs.

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## Parity matrix

Status legend: ✅ shipped · 📦 logic lives in `commons/`, needs a command ·
🆕 needs extraction from `amethyst/` first · ⚠️ blocked (see Notes).

| Area | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Identity create / import (`nsec`, `ncryptsec`, mnemonic, `npub`, `nprofile`, hex, NIP-05) | ✅ | `LoginCommand` + Quartz NIP-05 / NIP-06 / NIP-49 |
| Account bootstrap (nine events) | ✅ | `commons/account/AccountBootstrapEvents.kt` |
| Relay config + NIP-65 / NIP-10050 publish | ✅ | `RelayCommands` |
| MLS KeyPackage publish + fetch | ✅ | `commons/marmot/MarmotManager` |
| Marmot group create / add / rename / promote / demote / remove / leave | ✅ | `commons/marmot/` |
| Marmot message send / list | ✅ | `commons/marmot/` |
| `await` polling (KP / group / member / admin / message / rename / epoch) | ✅ | `AwaitCommands` |
| NIP-01 note publish (`amy notes post TEXT`) | ✅ | `PostCommand` — outbox via `RelayCommands` configured set. |
| NIP-01 feed read (`amy notes feed [--following \| --author NPUB]`) | ✅ | `FeedCommand`. Hashtag / community feeds still pending. |
| NIP-02 follow list add / remove / list | 🆕 | Logic in `amethyst/model/nip02FollowLists/`. |
| NIP-09 event deletion | 🆕 | Builder exists in quartz. |
| NIP-17 DMs send / list / await | ✅ | `DmCommands` — reuses Quartz `NIP17Factory` + `RecipientRelayFetcher`; filter extracted to `commons/relayClient/nip17Dm/`. Plan: [`cli/plans/2026-04-23-nip17-dm.md`](./plans/2026-04-23-nip17-dm.md). |
| NIP-18 reposts / quotes | 🆕 | |
| NIP-25 reactions | ✅ in groups · 🆕 elsewhere | `marmot message react` covers MLS group reactions; outer-event reactions still pending. |
| NIP-51 lists (bookmarks, mute, follow sets) | 🆕 | `amethyst/model/nip51Lists/` |
| NIP-57 zaps (send + verify) | 🆕 | Needs LN-URL plumbing; `amethyst/service/lnurl/`. |
| NIP-65 outbox model queries | 🆕 | |
| NIP-72 communities | 🆕 | |
| NIP-78 app-specific data (settings sync) | 🆕 | |
| Long-form (NIP-23) publish / read | 🆕 | |
| Live activities / chess (NIP-53 / NIP-64) | 🆕 | |
| Blossom uploads (NIP-B7) | 🆕 | |
| NIP-47 Wallet Connect | 🆕 | |
| NIP-46 bunker signer | 🆕 | Needs a signers abstraction in Amy. |
| Profile view (`amy profile show NPUB`) + edit | ✅ | `ProfileCommands`. Cache-first; `--refresh` forces a relay drain. |
| Thread view (`amy thread show EVENT_ID`) | ⚠️ | Same. |
| Notifications feed | 🆕 | |
| Search (NIP-50) | 🆕 | |

### `nak` parity — army-knife primitives

Tracking [`fiatjaf/nak`](https://github.com/fiatjaf/nak)'s command surface. amy
adapts the verbiage where its own conventions differ (`req` → one-shot `fetch`
vs streaming `subscribe`). Stateless verbs run with no account or network.

| nak command | amy verb | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| `decode` | `amy decode` | ✅ | NIP-19/21 → JSON. Quartz `Nip19Parser`. |
| `encode` | `amy encode` | ✅ | npub/nsec/note/nevent/nprofile/naddr. |
| `verify` / `validate` | `amy verify` | ✅ | id-hash + signature, reported separately. |
| `key` | `amy key generate\|public\|encrypt\|decrypt` | ✅ | generate/derive + NIP-49 encrypt/decrypt (bidirectionally nak-verified). `expand`/`combine`/`validate`/`default` still 🆕. |
| `event` | `amy event` | ✅ | build/sign an arbitrary event, optional `--publish`/`--relay`. |
| `publish` | `amy publish` | ✅ | broadcast a pre-made event JSON (verified first). |
| `req` (one-shot) | `amy fetch` | ✅ | filter → collect-until-EOSE, dedupe, sort, cap. |
| `req` (stream) | `amy subscribe` | ✅ | filter → live NDJSON stream to stdout. |
| `count` | `amy count` | ✅ | NIP-45, per-relay counts. |
| `encrypt` / `decrypt` | `amy encrypt\|decrypt` | ✅ | raw NIP-44 (default) / NIP-04. |
| `gift` | `amy gift wrap\|unwrap` | ✅ | NIP-59 seal+wrap / unwrap+unseal. |
| `relay` (NIP-11) | `amy relay info` | ✅ | stateless NIP-11 doc fetch. |
| `outbox` | `amy outbox` | ✅ | NIP-65 read/write relays, cache-first. |
| `filter` | `amy filter` | ✅ | stateless — assemble + print a filter JSON. |
| `blossom` | `amy blossom` | ✅ | upload/download/list/delete/check/mirror (reuses commons `BlossomClient`). |
| `nip` | `amy nip` | ✅ | repo-first lookup + Nostr wiki/long-form fallback; `nip list`. |
| `kind` | `amy kind` | ✅ | quartz `KindNames` registry (kind → English label + NIP), ported from the Android relay view; number lookup + name search. |
| `sync` | `amy sync` | ✅ | NIP-77 Negentropy reconcile with the local store (down/up/both). |
| `git` | `amy git` | ✅ in part | NIP-34 repo announce/list/show/issue. clone/push (packfile transport) out of scope. |
| `podcast` | `amy podcast` | ✅ | NIP-F4 show metadata (10154) + episode publish (54) + list. |
| `bunker` | `amy bunker[ connect]` + `amy login bunker://`/`--nostrconnect` | ✅ | NIP-46 remote signer + login, both the `bunker://` and `nostrconnect://` flows, each direction, plus `auth_url` challenge handling (client surfaces the URL + keeps waiting). Interop-verified vs real `nak`. |
| `serve` / `admin` / `wallet` / `mcp` / `fs` / `spell` | — | 🆕 (tier 2/3) | larger/niche; some pull new deps. |

### Full nak comparison (introspected both binaries)

nak has 34 functional commands. Coverage:

- **Full / equivalent (19):** `event`, `req`(→`fetch`+`subscribe`), `filter`,
  `count`, `decode`, `encode`, `verify`, `relay`, `bunker`(+nostrconnect+auth_url),
  `encrypt`, `decrypt`, `gift`, `publish`, `sync`, `profile`, `podcast`, `nip`,
  `kind`, `blossom`. Protocol-sensitive ones (`bunker`, `sync`, `key` NIP-49,
  `encode`/`decode`) are interop-verified against the real `nak` binary.
- **Partial / adapted (4):** `key` (no `expand`/`combine`/`validate`/`default`),
  `git` (NIP-34 events only — no packfile transport), `outbox` (shows NIP-65 vs
  nak's hints DB), `fetch` (filter-based, not nip19-hint resolution).
- **Missing (11):** `admin` (NIP-86),
  `serve` (geode is a standalone relay), `dekey` (NIP-4E), `wallet` (NIP-60
  Cashu), `mcp`, `curl` (NIP-98), `fs` (FUSE), `group`/`nip29` (NIP-29 — amy has
  MLS/Marmot instead), `spell` (MuSig2/FROST), `validate` (RoK schema).

**Design differences (not gaps):** amy is a *stateful client* (accounts,
`~/.amy/`, shared event store) with a stable JSON contract; nak is a *stateless*
per-invocation tool that prints bare values for shell substitution. amy also has
a large surface nak lacks: Marmot/MLS, NIP-17 DMs, zaps, CLINK offer/debit,
NIP-02 follow, NIP-50 search, napplets, profile edit, store management, account
management.

**Cheap remaining wins:** the `key` `expand`/`combine`/`validate`/`default` sub-verbs.

---

## Order of operations

Proposed sequencing. Each step is one PR. Each step should extract
at least one file from `amethyst/` into `commons/`; if it doesn't
move anything, re-audit — you're probably duplicating logic.

1. **Event rendering core** in `commons/commonMain/.../rendering/`
   with renderers for kinds 0 / 1 / 3 / 6 / 7 / 10002 / 10050.
   Unblocks all the 🆕 and ⚠️ read-path rows below.
   Design: `commons/plans/2026-04-21-event-renderer.md`.
2. **`amy notes post` / `amy notes show` / `amy notes react`** —
   smallest end-to-end write+read loop outside Marmot. Post + feed
   ✅ shipped; `notes show` and outer-event `react` still pending.
3. **`amy notes feed home|profile|hashtag|thread`** reading through the
   renderer. `--following` and `--author NPUB` ✅; hashtag/thread
   variants still pending.
4. **`amy follow add|remove|list`** (NIP-02) — proves extraction of
   list-building logic from `amethyst/model/`.
5. **`amy dm send|list`** (NIP-17) — ✅ shipped. Reuses the gift-wrap
   path also exercised by Marmot.
6. **`amy list bookmarks|mute|pin …`** (NIP-51).
7. **`amy zap send|verify`** (NIP-57).
8. **Distribution** — Homebrew + Scoop + `.deb` in the same release
   pipeline as desktop. Plan: `cli/plans/2026-04-21-cli-distribution.md`.
9. **Test suite** — end-to-end against a local relay. Marmot interop is
   covered by `cli/tests/marmot/marmot-interop-headless.sh`; NIP-17 DM
   interop between two `amy` clients is covered by
   `cli/tests/dm/dm-interop-headless.sh` (text + file + strict 10050 +
   fallback + cursor-advance). Neither runs in CI yet (both need Rust +
   ~3 min cold relay build).
10. **Everything else in the matrix.**

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## Non-goals

- Interactive TUI or REPL.
- Native image (GraalVM) until Quartz has a pure-Kotlin signer
  fallback — `secp256k1-kmp-jni-*` needs JNI today.
- A Gradle dependency on `:amethyst` or `:desktopApp`. Ever.
- Re-implementing any Nostr protocol piece that's already in
  `quartz/` or in another client's library.