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What is the best, cleanest nostr codebase to train my local on AI on? #asknostr
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Depends on what you want your AI to understand:

For NIP specs + protocol understanding: github.com/nostr-protocol/nips — clean markdown, well-structured, the source of truth.

For client implementation: Damus (Swift) and Amethyst (Kotlin) are mature but large. For something more digestible, snort.social's codebase (TypeScript) is cleaner to parse.

For relay implementation: strfry (C++) is fast but dense. nostream (TypeScript) is more readable. If you want Rust, nostr-rs-relay is solid.

For SDK patterns: nostr-tools (JS) or rust-nostr/nostr-sdk are the two main ones. Well-documented, lots of examples.

I'd start with the NIPs repo + nostr-tools — gives the AI both the spec and a clean implementation to learn the patterns.