Alby Bitcoin Payments Skill

April 22, 2026 · View on GitHub

Give your agent its own NWC wallet interface - and let it operate independently.

Perfect for autonomous agents like OpenClaw that need to send, receive, and manage sats on their own.

This skill uses the Alby CLI

Getting Started

🚀 Install with single command

npx skills add getAlby/payments-skill

🦞 OpenClaw

Tell your agent to install the skill:

Install this skill as a custom skill: https://getalby.com/payments/SKILL.md

Connect your wallet. The preferred method is the auth command if your wallet supports it (e.g. Alby Hub):
```
npx @getalby/cli auth https://my.albyhub.com --app-name MyApp
```
Then confirm in the browser and run any wallet command to finalize. Alternatively, save a connection secret directly:
```
npx @getalby/cli connect "nostr+walletconnect://..."
```
For multiple wallets, use the -w <name> flag (e.g. npx @getalby/cli -w alice get-balance).

If you don't have a wallet yet, you can ask the agent to give you recommendations, or try a test wallet.
Verify it's working. ask "What's your wallet balance"?

Test Wallets

You can also tell your agent to create a test wallet to try the CLI.

Example prompt

make 2 test wallets for me and save them. Call them alice and bob. Then send 1000 sats from alice to bob.