Skywire documentation

Skywire is a peer-to-peer privacy-focused networking suite developed by Skycoin. Visors are reachable over two encrypted networks — Skywire (direct routing) and DMSG (relay) — addressed by 33-byte public keys.

This site collects everything an operator or developer needs to run, extend, or understand a Skywire deployment.

Where to start

• Guides

  Install, configure, and operate a visor. VPN, SOCKS5, SkyNet port forwarding, manual routing, hypervisor UI.

• Command Reference

  Every skywire <subcommand> page with flags, usage, examples, and live sample output. Generated from the cobra tree on every commit to develop.

• Specs

  Protocol-level specifications: transports, packets, routing, setup-node, hypervisor architecture, address-resolver privacy.

• Rewards

  Eligibility rules for the Skywire reward distribution.

Per-app and per-service docs

PTY and Skychat now have full guides in the Apps section above. The remaining visor-hosted apps (skysocks, skynet, vpn) and the deployment services (transport-discovery, route-finder, service-discovery, address-resolver, uptime-tracker) still live alongside the source under cmd/apps/ and cmd/svc/, and will be integrated here in a follow-up.

Other resources

• Skycoin Blog — release notes, protocol updates, and ecosystem news (mirror: skycoin.github.io/blog)
• Source on GitHub
• Telegram
• Skywire Wiki — operator walkthroughs, troubleshooting, package install guides
• skywire-deployment — run your own deployment of the discovery / route-finder / uptime services

Regenerating this site

The command-reference subtree (docs/skywire/) is generated from the live cobra tree by the hidden skywire doc subcommand. Regenerate after CLI changes:

make doc-gen

The site itself builds via the Docs GitHub Actions workflow on every push to develop, deploying to the gh-pages branch. For local preview:

make docs-serve