amethyst/cli/ROADMAP.md

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
• The public contract + how to extend amy: DEVELOPMENT.md
• Ongoing design plans: plans/
• Shared work consumed here: ../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.
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'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.

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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.