For Agents 🤖For Agents 🤖

Clone the lightning-agent-tools repo at github.com/lightninglabs/lightning-agent-tools. Install the lnd and lnget skills, then set up a Lightning node with a remote signer for
key isolation. Bake a pay-only macaroon to scope your spending permissions, configure lnget, and start paying for L402 APIs. If you want to sell resources too, install the aperture skill and set up a paid endpoint behind the L402 reverse proxy.

For Humans 👋For Humans 👋

Today, we're open sourcing a new set of tools that give AI agents the skills to operate natively on the Lightning Network. These tools give agents access to a payments rail that supports agent-native authentication without requiring identity, API keys, or signup flows. The new Lightning agent tools repo ships with seven composable skills covering the full agent commerce stack: running a Lightning node, isolating private keys with a remote signer, baking scoped credentials, paying for L402-gated APIs, hosting paid endpoints, querying node state via MCP (Model Context Protocol, a standardized tooling layer for AI assistants), and orchestrating end-to-end buyer/seller workflows. The skills work with any agent framework that can execute shell commands, including Claude Code, Codex, or your own tooling. You can also grab the skills from the Claude Code plugin marketplace, install them via npx, or find them on ClawHub.

Today's launch also includes lnget, an L402-aware command-line HTTP client (similar to wget/curl) that enables agents to seamlessly navigate L402-gated APIs and content. L402 is a protocol standard for L402 is a protocol standard for Lightning machine payment authentication that builds on the internet's long-forgotten HTTP 402 "Payment Required" status code. And for security purposes, the toolset includes a suite of agent skills for securely managing a Lightning wallet utilizing a remote signer architecture that isolates private keys from the agent entirely.

...read more at lightning.engineering