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Expand Up @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ A command-line client for [Mostro](https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro), the P2P

## Requirements

- **Rust** 1.74 or higher (recommended — anything newer than 1.64 should compile).
- **Rust** 1.89 or higher. The repository pins this in `rust-toolchain.toml`, so a `rustup` install picks it up automatically when you build from source.
- **A Mostro node to connect to** — its pubkey is mandatory configuration. See [Choosing a Mostro instance](#choosing-a-mostro-instance).

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Align the documented Rust minimum with CI. README.md requires Rust 1.89, but .github/workflows/ci.yml tests MSRV 1.86.0, and Cargo.toml declares no rust-version. Set the intended minimum consistently.

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across the README, the CI workflow’s MSRV setting, and Cargo.toml’s rust-version
field; choose the intended supported version and make all three references
consistent.

- A **Lightning wallet** to pay/receive hold invoices and regular invoices.
- Network access to public Nostr relays.

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -130,20 +131,32 @@ The mnemonic-based user and the admin key are completely independent. You can ru
| Variable | CLI flag | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `POW` | `-p, --pow` | Proof-of-work difficulty (bits) required by the Mostro instance for incoming events. Set this if the daemon enforces PoW. |
| `SECRET` | `--secret` | Use secret/anonymous mode for the inner event tuple (advanced, hides trade index from gift-wrap inner). |
| `SECRET` | `-s, --secret` | Use secret/anonymous mode for the inner event tuple (advanced, hides trade index from gift-wrap inner). |
| `TRANSPORT` | `-t, --transport` | Wire transport: `gift-wrap` (protocol v1) or `nip44` (protocol v2). Leave unset to auto-detect from the instance's info event. |
| `ADMIN_NSEC` | — | Admin/solver private key in `nsec1...` or hex format. Only read when an `adm*` command is invoked. |
| `RUST_LOG` | `-v, --verbose` | Verbose logging. The `-v` flag sets `RUST_LOG=info` for you. |
| `RUST_LOG` | `-v, --verbose` | Log level. **Only takes effect together with `-v`** — the logger is initialised solely when `-v` is passed, so exporting `RUST_LOG` on its own produces no output. `-v` sets `RUST_LOG=info` for you. |

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P2 Badge Document that verbose mode overwrites RUST_LOG

When a user follows this advice with a custom level such as RUST_LOG=debug mostro-cli -v ..., get_env_var unconditionally calls set_var("RUST_LOG", "info") before initializing the logger (src/cli.rs:359-361). Thus RUST_LOG does not take effect together with -v; it is overwritten, and the only available behavior is the fixed info level.

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### Choosing a Mostro instance

`mostro-cli` is only a client: it does not ship with a default node, and this README deliberately does not hard-code one. Mostro is a federation of independently operated daemons — any given instance can go offline, change its pubkey, or stop serving your currency at any time, so a pubkey pasted here would eventually send you to a dead node.

**Use the pubkey of the Mostro node you trust.** Ways to get one:

- **Ask the operator.** If you already trade on a given instance (through a mobile client, a community, or a friend), ask for its `npub` and the relays it publishes to.
- **Discover instances on Nostr.** Every running daemon publishes an addressable info event of **kind `38385`**, tagged with its `mostro_version`, `protocol_version`, `fee`, `pow` and `max_order_amount`. Querying a relay for that kind lists the instances it knows about, and the event's author pubkey is the value you need for `MOSTRO_PUBKEY`. Orders themselves are kind `38383` events authored by the same pubkey. Any Nostr client or CLI that can filter by kind will do.
- **Run your own.** The daemon is open source: [github.com/MostroP2P/mostro](https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro). Running it yourself is also the recommended way to test the whole flow (including on testnet) without touching a stranger's node — its config file holds the pubkey and relays you then feed to `mostro-cli`.

Whichever you pick, `RELAYS` must include at least one relay that the instance actually publishes to, otherwise the CLI connects successfully and simply sees nothing.

### Suggested setup

Create a small env file you `source` before using the CLI:

```bash
# ~/.config/mostro/env.sh (chmod 600)
export MOSTRO_PUBKEY="npub1ykvsmrmw2hk7jgxgy64zr8tfkx4nnjhq9eyfxdlg3caha3ph0skq6jr3z0"
export RELAYS="wss://relay.mostro.network,wss://relay.damus.io"
# export POW=10
export MOSTRO_PUBKEY="<npub-of-your-mostro-node>"
export RELAYS="wss://<relay-your-node-publishes-to>,wss://<another-relay>"
# export POW=10 # only if the node enforces proof of work
# export ADMIN_NSEC=nsec1... # only if you're an admin/solver
```

Expand All @@ -152,7 +165,7 @@ source ~/.config/mostro/env.sh
mostro-cli listorders
```

> Pubkeys above are illustrative — replace them with the actual Mostro instance and relays you want to trade on.
> Replace both placeholders with the real values of the instance you want to trade on — see [Choosing a Mostro instance](#choosing-a-mostro-instance). Nothing works until `MOSTRO_PUBKEY` points at a live node.
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### About `.env` files

Expand All @@ -162,8 +175,8 @@ If you prefer keeping settings in a `.env`-style file, export them yourself befo

```bash
# ~/.config/mostro/.env (chmod 600)
MOSTRO_PUBKEY=npub1ykvsmrmw2hk7jgxgy64zr8tfkx4nnjhq9eyfxdlg3caha3ph0skq6jr3z0
RELAYS=wss://relay.mostro.network,wss://relay.damus.io
MOSTRO_PUBKEY=<npub-of-your-mostro-node>
RELAYS=wss://<relay-your-node-publishes-to>
POW=0
```

Expand All @@ -178,6 +191,13 @@ mostro-cli listorders

## Quick start

Export your configuration first — every command below fails immediately without it:

```bash
export MOSTRO_PUBKEY="<npub-of-your-mostro-node>"
export RELAYS="wss://<relay-your-node-publishes-to>"
```

```bash
# 1. List open orders
mostro-cli listorders
Expand All @@ -189,7 +209,7 @@ mostro-cli listorders -k buy -c ves -s pending
# 3. Inspect details for specific orders
mostro-cli ordersinfo -o <uuid-1> -o <uuid-2>

# 4. Create your own order (sell 1000 ARS, range allowed)
# 4. Create your own order (sell 1000-10000 ARS at market price)
mostro-cli neworder -k sell -c ars -f 1000-10000 -m "face to face"

# 5. Take someone else's sell order
Expand All @@ -202,12 +222,25 @@ mostro-cli getdm --since 60
On the very first run you will see something like:

```
Directory /home/user/.mcli created.
Creating database file with orders table...
User created with pubkey: <your i0_pubkey>
```

Write down or back up the database / mnemonic before doing anything else.
Write down or back up the mnemonic before doing anything else — see [Backup, recovery and multi-device](#backup-recovery-and-multi-device).

### The CLI does not stay connected — you poll

This is the biggest difference from a mobile Mostro client. Each `mostro-cli` invocation connects to the relays, sends (or reads) what you asked for, prints the result and exits. It does **not** keep running to notify you when your counterpart acts.

So a trade is driven by you re-running `getdm`:

```bash
mostro-cli getdm --since 60 # everything Mostro sent you in the last 60 minutes
```

Run it after every step where you are waiting on the other side — an order being taken, an invoice arriving, fiat being marked as sent, sats being released. `--since` defaults to 30 minutes; widen it if you have been away.

Pending orders also expire (24 hours on a typical instance — the exact value is the `expiration_hours` tag of the node's info event). If nobody takes your order before then, it disappears from the orderbook and any locked sats are returned; you can pass `--expiration-days N` to `neworder` to request a different window.

---

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -380,7 +413,7 @@ You can be a regular user and a solver on the same machine; just keep both walle
- `admaddsolver`, `admtakedispute`
- `admsenddm`, `getadmindm`

For non-admin commands, `ADMIN_NSEC` is ignored.
For every other command, `ADMIN_NSEC` is ignored. Note that `sendadmindmattach` is **not** on this list despite its name: it signs with the trade key of the order you pass in, so it works without `ADMIN_NSEC` set.

### Admin commands

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -435,32 +468,41 @@ Store the 12 words offline (paper, metal, encrypted vault). Do **not** commit th

### Restoring on a new machine

> **Let the CLI create the database — do not hand-craft it.** `mostro-cli` only creates its tables when `~/.mcli/mcli.db` does not yet exist. If you pre-create that file yourself with just a `users` table, the `orders` table is never created, `listorders` still appears to work, and the first command that touches an order fails with `no such table: orders`. Always run the CLI once first, then overwrite the mnemonic.

1. Install `mostro-cli` on the new machine.
2. **Before running any command**, create `~/.mcli/mcli.db` with your mnemonic pre-inserted, or stop after the first auto-init and manually overwrite the row in `users`. A simple way using sqlite3:

2. **Run any command once** so the CLI builds a complete, correctly-permissioned database. It will generate a throwaway mnemonic that you are about to replace:

```bash
mkdir -p ~/.mcli
sqlite3 ~/.mcli/mcli.db <<'SQL'
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS users (
i0_pubkey char(64) PRIMARY KEY,
mnemonic TEXT,
last_trade_index INTEGER,
created_at INTEGER
);
SQL
# Then insert your mnemonic (replace the values):
sqlite3 ~/.mcli/mcli.db "INSERT INTO users (i0_pubkey, mnemonic, created_at) VALUES ('<your-i0_pubkey-hex>', '<your 12 words>', strftime('%s','now'));"
mostro-cli listorders
```
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3. Run `mostro-cli restore`. This asks Mostro to resend the state of all your active orders and disputes so the new machine can rejoin the conversations.
3. **Overwrite the mnemonic** with your backed-up 12 words and clear the trade index that belonged to the throwaway user:

4. (Optional) sync the trade index:
```bash
sqlite3 ~/.mcli/mcli.db "UPDATE users SET mnemonic = '<your 12 words>', last_trade_index = NULL;"
```

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not place the mnemonic in the shell command.

This command can expose the wallet seed in shell history and process arguments. That conflicts with the warning in README.md Line 467.

Use a parameterized helper that reads the mnemonic through hidden input and binds it to SQLite. Do not interpolate the mnemonic into command text or SQL text.

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In `@README.md` around lines 481 - 485, The README recovery instructions must not
embed the mnemonic in shell commands or SQL. Replace the inline sqlite3 update
with a parameterized helper that reads the mnemonic through hidden input and
binds it to the database update, while preserving the reset of last_trade_index.


The `i0_pubkey` column is only a primary key for display — every identity and trade key is derived from the `mnemonic` column at runtime, so a stale value there is harmless.

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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print("get_identity_keys_reads_mnemonic=",
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    WHERE i0_pubkey = ?
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Keep i0_pubkey consistent during mnemonic restoration.

The commands derive the identity from mnemonic, but the documented SQL leaves i0_pubkey set to the throwaway identity. Update i0_pubkey to the restored identity, or redefine it as a non-authoritative field and document that contract. User::save still uses this stale primary key in its WHERE clause.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@README.md` around lines 481 - 487, Update the mnemonic restoration
instructions so i0_pubkey is set to the identity derived from the restored
mnemonic, keeping it consistent with the mnemonic and User::save lookup
behavior; do not leave the throwaway identity in the database.


4. **Sync the trade index. This step is required, not optional:**

```bash
mostro-cli getlasttradeindex
```

> A friendlier `import-mnemonic` subcommand may land in the future. Until then, the manual flow above is the supported path.
Trade keys are derived from an incrementing index, and the daemon rejects an index it has already seen. A freshly restored database starts back at index 1, so without this sync your next order is refused. The command asks Mostro for your real last index and writes it back to the local database.

5. **Recover your open trades:**

```bash
mostro-cli restore

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P1 Badge Persist restored orders before declaring recovery complete

For a user restoring with active trades, this command only prints the IDs, trade indexes, and statuses returned by Mostro (Action::RestoreSession in src/parser/dms.rs); it never inserts any records into the freshly created orders table. Consequently, commands such as release, cancel, senddm, and addinvoice still fail at Order::get_by_id, so this procedure does not actually let the user rejoin or complete those trades as promised.

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```

This asks Mostro to resend the state of all your active orders and disputes so the new machine can rejoin the conversations.

> A friendlier `import-mnemonic` subcommand may land in the future. Until then, the flow above is the supported path.

### Backing up the whole DB

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -506,22 +548,31 @@ Every command supports `-h, --help`. The list below is a one-line summary; run `
- `admtakedispute -d <dispute-id>`
- `admaddsolver -n <npub>`
- `admsenddm -p <pubkey> -m <msg>`
- `sendadmindmattach -p <pubkey> -o <id> -f <file>`
- `getadmindm [--since <min>] [--from-user]`

### Solver tooling (no `ADMIN_NSEC` needed)
- `sendadmindmattach -p <pubkey> -o <id> -f <file>` — send an encrypted file attachment (uploaded to a Blossom server) over the order's trade key.

### Identity / recovery
- `restore` — re-sync active orders and disputes from Mostro.
- `getlasttradeindex` — fetch your last known trade index from Mostro.
- `getlasttradeprivkey` — show the private key for the last trade index (advanced).

### Global flags
- `-v, --verbose` — enable info logging.

> **These must come *before* the subcommand.** They are parsed on the top-level command, so `mostro-cli listorders -m <npub>` fails with `error: unexpected argument '-m' found`. Write `mostro-cli -m <npub> listorders` instead. This also avoids clashing with subcommand flags that reuse the same letters (`-m` is `--payment-method` on `neworder` and `--message` on `senddm`, `-p` is `--premium` on `neworder` and `--pubkey` on the DM commands).

- `-v, --verbose` — enable info logging (also the only way to make `RUST_LOG` take effect).
- `-m, --mostropubkey <npub>` — overrides `MOSTRO_PUBKEY`.
- `-r, --relays <list>` — overrides `RELAYS`.
- `-p, --pow <bits>` — overrides `POW`.
- `--secret` — secret mode for inner event tuple.
- `-s, --secret` — secret mode for inner event tuple.
- `-t, --transport <gift-wrap|nip44>` — overrides `TRANSPORT` (auto-detected when unset).

```bash
mostro-cli -m <npub> -r wss://<relay> listorders -k sell -c usd
```

---

## Files, environment and where things live
Expand All @@ -541,7 +592,7 @@ Environment variables read by the CLI:
| `SECRET` | Optional — `true` enables secret-mode inner tuple. |
| `TRANSPORT` | Optional — `gift-wrap` or `nip44`; auto-detected when unset. |
| `ADMIN_NSEC` | Optional — only used by admin commands. |
| `RUST_LOG` | Optional — verbose logging level. |
| `RUST_LOG` | Optional — log level, but only honoured when `-v` is also passed (the logger is initialised only by `-v`). |

The database stores **secret material** (your mnemonic). Treat `~/.mcli/mcli.db` like a wallet seed file:

Expand All @@ -557,18 +608,33 @@ The database stores **secret material** (your mnemonic). Treat `~/.mcli/mcli.db`

**"How do I generate my keys?"** — You don't. There is no key-generation step and no need for tools like `rana`. The first command you run creates `~/.mcli/mcli.db` with a fresh BIP39 mnemonic; every identity and trade key is derived from it (NIP-06). Back the mnemonic up — see [Backup, recovery and multi-device](#backup-recovery-and-multi-device).

**`MOSTRO_PUBKEY not set`** — Export it or pass `-m <npub>`. Mind the underscore: only `MOSTRO_PUBKEY` is read, `MOSTROPUBKEY` is not.
**`MOSTRO_PUBKEY not set`** — Export it, or pass `-m <npub>` **before** the subcommand (`mostro-cli -m <npub> listorders`, not `mostro-cli listorders -m <npub>` — see [Global flags](#global-flags)). Mind the underscore: only `MOSTRO_PUBKEY` is read, `MOSTROPUBKEY` is not. If you don't have a node pubkey yet, see [Choosing a Mostro instance](#choosing-a-mostro-instance).

**`RELAYS not set`** — `RELAYS` is required too, and that exact name is the one the CLI reads. Export it (comma-separated `wss://` URLs) or pass `-r <relay[,relay...]>` before the subcommand.

**`RELAYS not set`** — `RELAYS` is required too, and that exact name is the one the CLI reads. Export it (comma-separated `wss://` URLs) or pass `-r <relay[,relay...]>`.
**`error: unexpected argument '-m' found`** (or `-r`, `-p`, `-t`, `-v`) — Global flags belong before the subcommand: `mostro-cli -m <npub> listorders`. Placed after it, clap parses them against the subcommand, which either rejects them or silently means something else. See [Global flags](#global-flags).

**My `.env` file is ignored** — It is not loaded automatically; the CLI has no dotenv support. Use `set -a; source .env; set +a` first — see [About `.env` files](#about-env-files).

**`ADMIN_NSEC not set (required for admin commands)`** — Only admin subcommands need it. Export it in the same shell, or prefix the command: `ADMIN_NSEC=nsec1... mostro-cli admsettle ...`.

**`listorders` returns nothing** — Check `RELAYS` connectivity (`websocat wss://relay.mostro.network`), confirm `MOSTRO_PUBKEY` matches the instance you actually want to trade on, and try `--verbose` for relay logs.
**`listorders` returns nothing** — Almost always a configuration problem rather than an empty orderbook. In order:

1. **Is `MOSTRO_PUBKEY` a live instance?** A node that has been shut down, or a pubkey copied from an outdated guide, produces exactly this: a clean connection and zero orders. Confirm the pubkey with its operator, or look for its kind-`38385` info event on the relay — see [Choosing a Mostro instance](#choosing-a-mostro-instance).
2. **Do your relays carry that instance?** The node only publishes to the relays it is configured with. A perfectly healthy relay that the node never writes to will show nothing.
3. **Is the relay reachable?** Test with e.g. `websocat wss://<your-relay>`.
4. **Are your filters too narrow?** `-k`, `-c` and `-s` combine; drop them and retry.

Run with `-v` (before the subcommand) for relay-level logs.

**Mostro rejects events / no reply** — The instance may require `POW`. Ask the operator what difficulty is enforced and export `POW=<bits>`.

**`no such table: orders`** — Your `~/.mcli/mcli.db` was created by something other than the CLI (usually by hand-crafting it while restoring a mnemonic). The CLI only creates its tables when that file does not exist, so a pre-made database is missing `orders`. Delete it and follow [Restoring on a new machine](#restoring-on-a-new-machine) — but back up the mnemonic first: `sqlite3 ~/.mcli/mcli.db "SELECT mnemonic FROM users;"`.

**Mostro rejects my order after restoring on a new machine** — You very likely skipped the trade-index sync. Run `mostro-cli getlasttradeindex`; see [Restoring on a new machine](#restoring-on-a-new-machine).

**Nothing happens / I'm waiting for my counterpart** — The CLI does not stay connected. Re-run `mostro-cli getdm --since <minutes>` to pull new messages; see [The CLI does not stay connected — you poll](#the-cli-does-not-stay-connected--you-poll).

**Lost the database / changed machine** — See [Backup, recovery and multi-device](#backup-recovery-and-multi-device). Without the mnemonic, active orders/disputes cannot be recovered.

**Multiple orders in flight** — Each gets its own derived trade key. The DB tracks them; just keep using order IDs.
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