# Cardano Cli Staking

> Staking guidance: registration, delegation, rewards. Provides templates (no execution). Use operator skill to execute.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-flux-point-studios-cardano-agent-skills-cardano-cli-staking`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Flux-Point-Studios](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/flux-point-studios)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Flux-Point-Studios](https://github.com/Flux-Point-Studios)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Flux-Point-Studios/cardano-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/cardano-cli-staking

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-flux-point-studios-cardano-agent-skills-cardano-cli-staking
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# cardano-cli-staking

> **This is a guidance skill.** Provides templates and explanations. For execution, use `cardano-cli-staking-operator`.

## When to use
- Learning stake key registration and delegation
- Understanding rewards withdrawal
- Getting command templates for staking operations

## Operating rules (must follow)
- Confirm network before providing commands
- Never execute—only provide templates
- Include deposit/fee information
- Verify pool ID from multiple sources

## Docker fallback mode
If `cardano-cli` is not installed locally, use the wrapper script in this skill folder to run **cardano-cli inside Docker** (the Cardano node container images include the CLI).

```bash
chmod +x {baseDir}/scripts/cardano-cli.sh
{baseDir}/scripts/cardano-cli.sh version
```

Notes:
- The wrapper mounts your current directory into the container as `/work` so files like `pparams.json`, `tx.body`, `datum.json` work normally.
- If you have a local node socket, set `CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH` before running so `query` commands work.
- Override the image with `CARDANO_DOCKER_IMAGE=ghcr.io/intersectmbo/cardano-node:`.

## Key concepts

### Stake addresses vs payment addresses
- **Payment address**: Holds funds, used for spending
- **Stake address**: Controls delegation, receives rewards
- **Base address**: Combines both (most common)

### Deposits
- Stake key registration: ~2 ADA deposit (refundable)
- Pool registration: ~500 ADA deposit (refundable)

## Workflow templates

### Check stake status
```bash
# Derive stake address
cardano-cli conway stake-address build \
  --stake-verification-key-file stake.vkey \
  --testnet-magic 1 \
  --out-file stake.addr

# Query status
cardano-cli conway query stake-address-info \
  --testnet-magic 1 \
  --address $(cat stake.addr)
```

### Register stake key
```bash
# 1. Create registration certificate
cardano-cli conway stake-address registration-certificate \
  --stake-verification-key-file stake.vkey \
  --out-file stake-reg.cert

# 2. Build transaction with certificate
cardano-cli conway transaction build \
  --testnet-magic 1 \
  --tx-in # \
  --change-address  \
  --certificate-file stake-reg.cert \
  --out-file tx.unsigned

# 3. Sign with BOTH keys
cardano-cli conway transaction sign \
  --tx-file tx.unsigned \
  --signing-key-file payment.skey \
  --signing-key-file stake.skey \
  --testnet-magic 1 \
  --out-file tx.signed

# 4. Submit
cardano-cli conway transaction submit \
  --testnet-magic 1 \
  --tx-file tx.signed
```

### Delegate to pool
```bash
# 1. Create delegation certificate
cardano-cli conway stake-address stake-delegation-certificate \
  --stake-verification-key-file stake.vkey \
  --stake-pool-id pool1... \
  --out-file delegation.cert

# 2. Build, sign (both keys), submit
# Same pattern as registration
```

### Withdraw rewards
```bash
# 1. Check rewards balance
cardano-cli conway query stake-address-info \
  --testnet-magic 1 \
  --address $(cat stake.addr)

# 2. Build withdrawal tx
cardano-cli conway transaction build \
  --testnet-magic 1 \
  --tx-in # \
  --withdrawal $(cat stake.addr)+ \
  --change-address  \
  --out-file tx.unsigned

# 3. Sign with BOTH keys, submit
```

### De-register stake key (get deposit back)
```bash
cardano-cli conway stake-address deregistration-certificate \
  --stake-verification-key-file stake.vkey \
  --out-file stake-dereg.cert

# Build tx with certificate, sign, submit
```

## Examples

### Example: Delegate to a pool
**User request:** "Delegate my stake to pool1abc..."

**Response:**
```bash
# === Delegate to Pool ===

POOL_ID="pool1abc..."
STAKE_VKEY="stake.vkey"
PAYMENT_ADDR=$(cat base.addr)

# 1. Verify pool exists
cardano-cli conway query stake-pools --testnet-magic 1 | grep $POOL_ID

# 2. Create delegation certificate
cardano-cli conway stake-address stake-delegation-certificate \
  --stake-verification-key-file $STAKE_VKEY \
  --stake-pool-id $POOL_ID \
  --out-file delegation.cert

# 3. Build transaction
cardano-cli conway transaction build \
  --testnet-magic 1 \
  --tx-in #0 \
  --change-address $PAYMENT_ADDR \
  --certificate-file delegation.cert \
  --out-file tx.unsigned

# 4. Sign with both keys
cardano-cli conway transaction sign \
  --tx-file tx.unsigned \
  --signing-key-file payment.skey \
  --signing-key-file stake.skey \
  --testnet-magic 1 \
  --out-file tx.signed

# 5. Submit (use operator skill)
# Delegation takes effect at next epoch boundary
```

## Safety / key handling
- Verify pool ID from multiple sources (adapools, cexplorer)
- Staking never risks your principal
- Delegation can be changed anytime
- Rewards accumulate until withdrawn

## References
- `shared/PRINCIPLES.md`
- `cardano-cli-staking-operator` (for execution)

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Flux-Point-Studios](https://github.com/Flux-Point-Studios)
- **Source:** [Flux-Point-Studios/cardano-agent-skills](https://github.com/Flux-Point-Studios/cardano-agent-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-flux-point-studios-cardano-agent-skills-cardano-cli-staking
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/flux-point-studios
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