SLV — Solana Node Manager with AI Console

Deploy and manage Solana validators, RPC nodes, and gRPC streaming in 3 commands.

SLV is a CLI tool that handles the full lifecycle of Solana infrastructure — from bare metal to running node. The built-in AI Console lets you deploy and operate nodes through natural conversation.

🆕 What's New

• 🟢 DoubleZero support — First-class integration with the DoubleZero low-latency network
• AI Console — Deploy nodes through conversation with specialist AI agents
• Performance tuning — Automated CPU governor, IRQ pinning, and kernel optimization
• Multi-region snapshots — 7 global snapshot endpoints for fast node bootstrapping

Quick Start

# 1. Install SLV
curl -fsSL https://storage.slv.dev/slv/install | sh

# 2. Configure your environment (AI provider, SSH keys, API keys)
slv onboard

# 3. Launch the AI Console
slv c

That's it. The AI Console guides you through everything:

You: Deploy a mainnet Jito validator on 203.0.113.10

Agent: I'll set up a mainnet Jito validator. Let me walk you through:
       - Checking SSH connectivity...
       - Generating validator identity and vote keys...
       - Building Solana from source...
       - Downloading snapshot from nearest region...
       - Starting validator and monitoring slot sync...

What Can SLV Do?

Task	Command
Install SLV	curl -fsSL https://storage.slv.dev/slv/install | sh
Initial setup	slv onboard
AI Console (interactive)	slv c
Check node status	slv check
Update Solana version	slv update
Server health	slv check rpc / slv check grpc / slv check shreds

Supported Node Types

• Validators — Jito, Agave, Firedancer (mainnet & testnet)
• RPC Nodes — Standard, Index, Geyser gRPC, Index+gRPC
• gRPC Geyser Streaming — Yellowstone, Richat

AI Console Agents

The AI Console (slv c) includes specialist agents for different tasks:

Agent	Role
Cecil	Validator deployments (Jito, Agave, Firedancer)
Tina	RPC & gRPC Geyser deployments
Figaro	Server procurement and pricing
Setzer	Solana app development

Just describe what you need in plain language. The agent handles SSH, keys, builds, snapshots, firewall, and monitoring.

How It Works

SLV uses Ansible playbooks and Jinja2 templates under the hood:

Your request → AI Agent → Ansible playbooks → Target server

Design principles:

• Remote-only — manage everything from your local machine, no SSH into nodes
• Dummy key start — validators start with unstaked identity, then hot-switch
• Source builds — Solana binaries built from GitHub source
• Firewall-first — SSH restrictions and nftables from day one
• DoubleZero ready — opt-in low-latency networking for validators and RPC

Using AI Agent Skills (Advanced)

SLV also provides standalone AI agent skills that work with any AI coding agent — OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, and more.

Skill	What It Does
slv-validator	Deploy & manage validators
slv-rpc	Deploy & manage RPC nodes
slv-grpc-geyser	Deploy & manage gRPC Geyser streaming

# OpenClaw (via ClawHub)
npx clawhub install slv-validator

# Claude Code — copy skill into your project
cp -r dist/oss-skills/slv-validator /your/project/.claude/skills/

# Any agent — add SKILL.md to your agent's context
cp dist/oss-skills/slv-validator/SKILL.md /your/project/AGENTS.md

Each skill includes SKILL.md (AI knowledge), Ansible playbooks, setup scripts, and example inventories. No lock-in — they're plain Markdown + Ansible.

Using Without AI (Direct Ansible)

cd dist/oss-skills/slv-validator/ansible/

# Deploy a mainnet Jito validator
ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml mainnet-validator/init.yml \
  -e '{"validator_type":"jito","solana_version":"v3.1.8-jito"}'

# Restart a validator
ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml mainnet-validator/restart_node.yml

# Build Solana from source
ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml cmn/build_solana.yml \
  -e '{"solana_version":"v3.1.8"}'

ERPC Network Benefits

Servers from erpc.global automatically get:

• Dedicated snapshot endpoints — 7 global regions
• Internal routing — lower bandwidth costs
• Auto-detection — SLV finds the nearest snapshot server via ping

Prerequisites

• ansible-core >= 2.15 (pip install ansible-core)
• SSH access to target servers (key-based auth)
• solana-cli (optional, for local key generation)

slv onboard handles most of this automatically.

For Developers

git clone https://github.com/ValidatorsDAO/slv.git
deno task dev --help
deno task build
deno test -A

Community

• Validators DAO Discord
• Documentation
• Twitter @slvSOLANA

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome. This project follows the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

Apache-2.0