archived.md
May 13, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
Archived plugins
The following is a list of archived plugins that are no longer maintained and reside inside the 'archived' subdirectory. Any plugins that fail CI will be archived.
If you like a plugin from that list, feel free to update and fix it, so we can un-archive it.
| Name | Short description |
|---|---|
| autopilot | An autopilot that suggests channels that should be established |
| balance-AMP-pay | Computes an optimal split of a payment amount for the use of AMP. Helps keep funds balanced |
| btcli4j | A Bitcoin Backend to enable safely the pruning mode, and support also rest APIs. |
| circular | A smart rebalancing plugin for Core Lightning routing nodes |
| clnrest-rs | Drop-in rust implementation of CLN's clnrest.py, shipped with CLN since v25.02 |
| commando | This plugin allows to send commands between nodes |
| datastore | The Datastore Plugin |
| drain | Draining, filling and balancing channels with automatic chunks. |
| event-websocket | Exposes notifications over a Websocket |
| fixroute | Constructs a route object (using sendpay) which goes over a sequence of node ids |
| go-lnmetrics.reporter | Collect and report of the lightning node metrics |
| graphql | Exposes the Core-Lightning API over graphql |
| helpme | This plugin is designed to walk you through setting up a fresh Core-Lightning node |
| historian | Archiving the Lightning Network |
| holdinvoice | Holds htlcs for invoices until settle or cancel is called (aka Hodlinvoices) via RPC/GRPC |
| invoice-queue | Listen to lightning invoices from multiple nodes and send to a redis queue for processing |
| jitrebalance | The JITrebalance plugin |
| lightning-qt | A bitcoin-qt-like GUI for lightningd |
| listmempoolfunds | Track unconfirmed wallet deposits |
| nloop | Generic Lightning Loop for boltz |
| noise | Chat with your fellow node operators |
| nostr-control | Allows you to talk to your node oand send you events from your node over nostr DMs |
| paytest | A plugin to benchmark the performance of the |
| paythrough | Pay an invoice through a specific channel, regardless of better routes |
| poncho | Turns CLN into a hosted channels provider |
| probe | Regularly probes the network for stability |
| pruning | This plugin manages pruning of bitcoind such that it can always sync |
| sauron | A Bitcoin backend relying on [Esplora][esplora]'s API |
| sitzprobe | A Lightning Network payment rehearsal utility |
| spark-commando | Heavily inspired by Rusty's commando plugin |
| sparko | RPC over HTTP with fine-grained permissions, SSE and spark-wallet support |
| torq-plugin | Better CLN integration into Torq |
| webhook | Dispatches webhooks based from event notifications |