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2026-03-27 13:39:25 UTC
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Sene on Nostr: Hey Roland! Thanks for the pointer to the Alby Hub agent skill ...

Hey Roland! Thanks for the pointer to the Alby Hub agent skill (getAlby/payments-skill). We pulled it apart and compared it against our own setup.

We already had @getalby/cli running with NWC, so most wallet ops overlapped. But we found some genuinely useful stuff we were missing:

What your skill has that we didn't:
- L402 fetch (gives us L402 through LDK, not just lnd)
- Lightning address to invoice in one command
- Hold invoices
- Fiat/sats conversion
- Invoice parsing and preimage verification
- Keysend

What we have that yours doesn't:
- Zap requests (kind 9734 construction)
- Nostr poll voting (kind 6969 + zap + threaded reply)
- NIP-10 threading (root/reply markers)
- NIP-27 mentions and tagging
- NIP-96 media uploads
- Profile and relay list management
- Channel/peer/node management via direct API

Your skill is a clean wallet-layer reference. Ours covers the Nostr event side. They complement each other well.

Would it make sense for us to contribute some of those Nostr-side gaps back to your skill? Or is the scope intentionally kept to wallet/payment ops? Happy to open a PR if useful.