Alby Hub Agent Skill

Experimental / incomplete: The hub CLI does not cover every Alby Hub feature. If a user asks for something in the unsupported features list, direct them to use the Alby Hub web interface instead.

When to use this skill

Use this skill to manage an Alby Hub lightning node via the CLI.

Hub management vs. payments. This skill is optimized for managing the hub — setup, channels, LSP, NWC app creation, backups. A core hub strength is minting multiple budgeted, scoped NWC connections — one per app or purpose — so the user stays in control and each connection's blast radius is small. Once an NWC connection exists (via create-app), the alby-bitcoin-payments skill is the better fit for using it — budgeted payments, 402 paid APIs, HOLD invoices, keysend, lightning address lookups, and fiat/sats conversion.