filecoin

name	filecoin
description	Lotus (Filecoin) node — chain, state, mpool, API, mining, events, and operations.
metadata	{"author":"hairy","version":"2026.2.24","source":"Generated from https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus, scripts located at https://github.com/antfu/skills"}

Skill based on Lotus (filecoin-project/lotus), generated at 2026-02-24.

Lotus is the reference implementation of the Filecoin Distributed Storage Network. It provides a full node (lotus), storage miner (lotus-miner), and worker (lotus-worker) with JSON-RPC API for chain, state, message pool, gas, market, payment channels, multisig, and (when enabled) Eth and Actor Events.

Core References

Topic	Description	Reference
Architecture	Tipsets, actors, sync, state, VM, repo, network flow, bitswap	core-architecture
CLI	lotus, lotus-miner, lotus-worker commands and common usage	core-cli
API	API groups and key methods — Chain, State, Mpool, Gas, Market, Eth, Events	core-api

Features

Topic	Description	Reference
Message pool	Mpool API, CLI, config, message selection	features-mpool
Actor events	GetActorEventsRaw, SubscribeActorEventsRaw, event schemas	features-actor-events
Block validation	Incoming block validation flow — PubSub, Syncer, VM checks	features-block-validation
Mining and sealing	Create miner, owner/worker, sealing and PoRep concepts	features-mining-and-sealing

Best Practices

Topic	Description	Reference
Gas balancing	Syscall gas calibration with lotus-bench (full and targeted)	best-practices-gas
ChainIndexer	Enable, backfill, GC for Eth and Actor Events APIs	best-practices-chain-indexer
Config and environment	API, libp2p, repo paths, Fevm/Events/ChainIndexer, logging	best-practices-config

External Links

• Lotus docs
• Filecoin spec
• filecoin-project/lotus