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 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 | Trading bots and Solana apps |

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

Contributing

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

License

Apache-2.0

Slv

Install / Use

README