Developer tools

To support its unique architecture, Starknet boasts its own suite of developer tools that aim to streamline the development process for Starknet developers. While sometimes developed in coordination with StarkWare, the majority of these tools are community-driven projects, showcasing the collaborative and innovative spirit of the Starknet ecosystem.

The following are Starknet’s key developer tools:

The following list is dynamic and continuously updated. If a tool you are using is missing, please consider opening an issue or editing the page by yourself.

  • Core tools:

    To keep up with the compatibility between Starknet’s core tools and the different Starknet, Starknet RPC, and Cairo versions, see Compatibility tables.

  • dApp tools:

    • Scaffold Stark is designed to make it easier for developers to create, deploy and interact with smart contracts.

    • Starknet React is a wagmi-inspired collection of React hooks for Starknet.

    • Get Starknet is a Starknet wallet<>dApp connection bridge, that enables easy discovery and UI for Starknet wallets, including Ready, Braavos, Metamask Snaps, and OKX.

    • Starknetkit is a Starknet wallet connection kit, built by Ready using Starknet.js and starknet-react.

    • Dynamic SDK combines authentication, smart wallets, and secure key management into one flexible SDK that enables multi-chain coverage across chains and third-party wallets.

    • Dojo is a developer friendly framework for building provable Games, Autonomous Worlds and other Applications that are natively composable, extensible, permissionless and persistent.

    • Chipi SDK is an open-source developer toolkit that enables Starknet applications to create non-custodial wallets using any social login (Google, Apple, Telegram, etc.), sponsor transactions via integration with AVNU’s Paymaster, and build with their favourite auth provider with no black boxes.

    • Cavos is a wallet infrastructure service that enables instant wallet creation, gasless transactions, multi-provider authentication, and cross-platform SDKs

  • AI tools:

    • Cairo Coder is an intelligent code generation service that uses advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to understand Cairo’s syntax, patterns, and best practices, and provide high-quality, functional Cairo code based on natural language descriptions.

    • Starknet Agent, an AI-powered search engine that uses advanced machine learning algorithms to search and understand the Starknet documentation, Cairo Book, and other resources and provide clear and accurate answers to any queries.

    • Snak is a toolkit for creating AI agents that can interact with the Starknet blockchain, supporting multiple AI providers (including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Ollama), and available both as an NPM package and a ready-to-use NestJS server with a web interface.

    • Eliza Starknet plugin bridges Starknet blockchain capabilities with the Eliza ecosystem, enabling both automated and user-directed interactions with the Starknet blockchain, including token operations, trading, portfolio management, and DeFi integrations.

    • Daydreams is a generative agent framework for executing tasks across any blockchain or API, enabling AI agents to go beyond simple tasks and achieve complex and long-term objectives such as onchain gaming and DeFi strategies.

  • Other tools:

    • Open Zeppelin Contract Wizard is a tool that helps you create smart contracts with Open Zeppelin libraries by easily toggling on and off features for popular smart contract patterns.

    • Walnut is a transaction debugger and simulator for Starknet that supports Starknet Mainnet, Starknet Sepolia and Starknet Appchains and includes transaction call trace analysis, visual transaction step by step debugger, and transaction simulator.

    • Starknet Devnet JS is a JavaScript package that abstracts the Starknet Devnet API, making it easier to interact with it and write end-to-end tests for L1<>L2 communications.

    • Cairo Playground is an online tool that can be used to both experiment with Cairo without deploying a smart contract on Starknet, as well as dive deep into the Cairo virtual machine.

    • Stark Utils is a simple web application that aims to be a toolbox for Cairo developers, allowing you to convert any input to a felt, string, hexadecimal value, and more.

    • Katana is an extremely fast devnet designed to support local development with the Dojo Starknet gaming engine but can be used as a general purpose devnet as well.

    • Starkli is a fast, easy to install, and intuitive command line tool for interacting with Starknet, allowing to query Starknet and make transactions with ease.

    • Universal Sierra Compiler is a utility tool for compiling single Sierra files (unlike Scarb, which compiles full projects) from any Sierra version into CASM.

      Universal Sierra Compiler is bundled with Starknet Foundry and does not need to be installed separately if Starknet Foundry is installed.

    • Cairo Profiler is a utility tool that can be used to create profiles of Cairo executions from execution traces, which can be analyzed and used to show flame graphs and other useful information.

      Cairo Profiler is bundled with Starknet Foundry and does not need to be installed separately if Starknet Foundry is installed.

    • Cairo Lint is a collection of lints that can either be used as either a library or as a standalone binary to help both detect and fix common mistakes and improve your Cairo code.

      Cairo Lint is bundled with Scarb and does not need to be installed separately if Starknet Foundry is installed.

    • Starknet Contract Verifier is a client for the Voyager Starknet block explorer that allows verifying Starknet contract classes.

      Starknet Contract Verifier is bundled with Starknet Foundry and does not need to be installed separately if Starknet Foundry is installed.