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These documents are meant to serve as a "better than nothing" starting point for developers using AI coding agents who are new to the Reticulum ecosystem. They are not meant to be a replacement for reading the Reticulum Manual, or learning and understanding these concepts for yourself. At time of writing, I have not been using these myself for long enough to have refined them. I am simply providing them in an as-is, experimental state. The vast experience of my own development time using Claude Code has not used these skills; I instead cloned the relevant repos and had Claude reference the source code directly. This is guaranteed to be accurate, but may spend more tokens to get to the truth.

If you are already well versed in Reticulum, and especially if you are already developing applications for it, please do not waste your time reviewing these documents for accuracy, unless you are truly interested in what Claude interpreted. While I will be grateful for corrections, additions, etc., I do not wish to slow anyone down who is not using AI tools to assist their development.

Thank you,

Torlando

Reticulum Skills

Claude Code plugins for Reticulum Network Stack and related protocol development.

Available Plugins

| Plugin | Description | |--------|-------------| | reticulum-protocol | Comprehensive protocol knowledge for implementing Reticulum with byte-perfect interoperability | | lxmf-toolkit | Development toolkit for LXMF (Lightweight Extensible Message Format) protocol | | nomadnet-micron-toolkit | NomadNet page development and Micron markup language toolkit |

Installation

From GitHub (recommended)

# Add the marketplace
claude plugin marketplace add https://github.com/torlando-tech/reticulum-skills

# Install a plugin (choose one or more)
claude plugin install reticulum-protocol@reticulum-skills
claude plugin install lxmf-toolkit@reticulum-skills
claude plugin install nomadnet-micron-toolkit@reticulum-skills

Local Development

# Run Claude Code with a plugin directory
claude --plugin-dir /path/to/reticulum-skills/reticulum-protocol
claude --plugin-dir /path/to/reticulum-skills/lxmf-toolkit
claude --plugin-dir /path/to/reticulum-skills/nomadnet-micron-toolkit

Plugins

reticulum-protocol

Comprehensive protocol knowledge base for implementing Reticulum in any programming language with byte-perfect interoperability.

Components:

• 9 Skills (auto-triggering on protocol concepts):
• transport-routing - Packet routing, path tables, multi-hop forwarding
• links - Link establishment, ECDH key exchange, keepalives
• resources - Large data transfer, windowing, compression
• destinations - Address types, hash calculation, naming
• packets-wire-format - Binary packet structure, MTU/MDU, headers
• cryptography-identity - Ed25519, X25519, HKDF, token format
• interfaces - Interface types, IFAC, announce propagation modes
• announce-mechanism - Path discovery, announce format, bandwidth management
• reticulum-utilities - rnpath, rnprobe, rnid, rnstatus utilities
• Agent: protocol-implementation-assistant - Proactive assistance for implementing Reticulum protocol in any language

lxmf-toolkit

Development toolkit for the LXMF messaging protocol built on Reticulum.

Components:

• Skill: lxmf-protocol - Protocol knowledge, patterns, and debugging
• Commands:
• /lxmf-debug - Debug routing and delivery issues
• /lxmf-analyze - Inspect message structure
• /lxmf-sender - Run example sender script
• /lxmf-receiver - Run example receiver script
• /lxmf-docs - Protocol documentation lookup
• Agent: lxmf-developer - Proactive assistance when editing LXMF code

nomadnet-micron-toolkit

Development toolkit for NomadNet pages and the Micron markup language.

Components:

• Skills:
• micron-syntax - Complete Micron markup syntax reference (formatting, links, fields, colors)
• nomadnet-pages - Page structure, authentication, file serving, dynamic pages
• Commands:
• /micron-preview - Preview Micron markup rendering
• /nomadnet-page-create - Scaffold a new NomadNet page
• Agent: nomadnet-developer - Proactive assistance for NomadNet page development and Micron parsing

Related Projects

• Reticulum - Cryptography-based networking stack
• LXMF - Lightweight Extensible Message Format
• Sideband - LXMF client application
• Nomad Network - Terminal-based mesh communication