Skywire: One Binary, Everything You Need

The Unified Skywire Binary

The entire Skywire stack — visor, CLI, network services, DMSG utilities, native applications, bundled tools, and even the Skycoin blockchain — is compiled into a single binary. Install one program, get everything.

go run github.com/skycoin/skywire@develop

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Available Commands:
  visor     Skywire Visor
  cli       Command Line Interface for skywire
  svc       Skywire services
  dmsg      DMSG services & utilities
  app       Skywire native applications
  util      Bundled utility commands
  skycoin   Skycoin daemon & cli

What’s Included

skywire visor — The Skywire Node

Run a Skywire visor with transport management, routing, and the hypervisor UI for remote management.

skywire cli — Full Command Line Interface

21 subcommands for managing every aspect of a Skywire deployment:

• config — generate or update visor config
• visor — query the running visor
• tp / tps — view and manage transports
• route — view and set routing rules
• vpn — VPN client management
• skynet — TCP port forwarding over Skywire
• dmsg — DMSG utilities
• reward / rewards — Skycoin reward address and reward calculation
• proxy — SOCKS5 proxy client
• survey — system survey collection
• ut / sd / mdisc — uptime tracker, service discovery, and DMSG discovery queries
• skychat — messaging
• log — survey and transport log collection
• pv — public visor listing
• gotop — terminal-based system activity monitor

skywire svc — Network Services

All 13 Skywire infrastructure services, deployable from the same binary:

• tpd — Transport Discovery server
• tps — Transport Setup server
• ar — Address Resolver server
• rf — Route Finder server
• ut — Uptime Tracker server
• sd — Service Discovery server
• sn — Route Setup Node
• nm — Network Monitor (VPN and visor)
• confbs / conf — Config Bootstrap server and config printer
• se — Skywire environment generator
• ip — GeoIP service
• stun — STUN server

skywire dmsg — DMSG Services & Utilities

The full DMSG overlay network stack:

• server — DMSG relay server
• disc — DMSG Discovery server
• web — DmsgWeb resolving proxy for anonymous websites
• curl — fetch URLs over DMSG
• http — serve files over DMSG
• pty — pseudoterminal over DMSG
• socks — SOCKS5 proxy over DMSG
• ip — DMSG IP utility
• conf — deployment server config

skywire app — Native Applications

All Skywire applications, runnable standalone or managed by the visor:

• vpn-server / vpn-client — Skywire VPN
• skysocks / skysocks-client — SOCKS5 proxy server and client
• skychat — peer-to-peer messaging
• skynet-srv / skynet-client — port forwarding server and client

skywire util — Bundled Utilities

Handy tools included in the binary:

• jq — JSON processor (gojq)
• edit — terminal text editor (femto)
• got — HTTP client with concurrent downloads

skywire skycoin — Skycoin Blockchain

The full Skycoin toolchain is embedded:

• daemon — Skycoin full node
• web — thin client web wallet (multi-Fibercoin and Bitcoin support)
• cli — Skycoin command line interface
• newcoin — Fibercoin creation tool
• explorer — blockchain explorer with embedded UI

Why One Binary?

• Simple deployment — one download, one install, everything works
• No dependency management — static binaries with embedded frontends and templates
• Consistent versioning — every component shares the same version and is tested together
• Flexible — run just a visor, just the CLI, deploy a service, or use the Skycoin wallet — all from the same binary
• Fibercoin ready — set FIBER_TOML and the embedded Skycoin tools adapt to any Fiber blockchain

Platform builds are available for Linux (amd64, arm64, armhf, arm, 386, riscv64), macOS, and Windows from the GitHub releases.