# Build Silverback Blockchain Bots

Blockchain automation is risky when bot requirements are unclear or safeguards are missing. This skill guides Claude, Codex, and Claude Code through Silverback bot design, implementation, and staged testing.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add apeworx/writing-bots
```

## Metadata

- - Slug: apeworx-writing-bots
- - Version: 1.0.0
- - Author: ApeWorX
- - GitHub username: ApeWorX
- - License: MIT
- - Repository: https://github.com/ApeWorX/skills/tree/main/silverback/writing-bots
- - Ref: main
- - Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- - Risk level: medium
- - Risk factors: external\_commands, network, env\_access
- - Quality score: 50
- - Quality tier: warning
- - Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/apeworx-writing-bots
- - Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/apeworx-writing-bots/manifest

## Capabilities

- Guides requirement gathering for blockchain networks, contracts, event types, and avoided scenarios.
- Structures Silverback bot handlers for new blocks, event logs, cron jobs, and metric-based triggers.
- Encourages current documentation lookup before generating Silverback SDK code.
- Adds risk controls such as staged testing, environment-based modes, limits, and circuit breakers.
- Explains how to install Silverback and run a bot with the target ecosystem and network.

## Use Cases

- Monitor Contract Events: Create a Silverback bot that reacts when a chosen smart contract emits specific events.
- Prototype On-Chain Automation: Draft a bot workflow that starts with logging and later adds controlled transaction signing.
- Design Operational Safeguards: Plan metrics, limits, stop conditions, and rollout steps before running a blockchain bot.

## Prompt Templates

### Draft a Basic Event Bot

```
Help me design a Silverback bot for this network and contract. Ask for any missing event details before writing code.
```

### Add Metrics and Logging

```
Create a Silverback bot plan that tracks useful metrics, logs actions clearly, and avoids unnecessary internal state.
```

### Plan a Safe Test Rollout

```
Review this bot idea and propose staged testing steps, dry-run behavior, limits, and emergency stop conditions.
```

### Build a Production Automation Spec

```
Design a Silverback bot that monitors these events, calls these services, and only signs transactions under explicit safety constraints.
```

## Limitations

- Requires uv and the Silverback tooling to run generated bots locally.
- Depends on current ApeWorX documentation for accurate Silverback APIs.
- Does not verify smart contract safety, signer permissions, or economic risk by itself.
- Needs user-provided networks, contract addresses, event details, and operational constraints.

## Best Practices

- Fetch current Silverback documentation before writing or updating bot code.
- Start with logging and dry-run behavior before adding signers or external service actions.
- Define limits, metrics, and emergency stop conditions before production deployment.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not run a generated bot against mainnet before reviewing and testing it.
- Do not expose API keys, signer keys, or secrets in logs or prompts.
- Do not add broad transaction permissions without explicit safety constraints.

## Security Audit

- - Safe to publish: true
- - Audited at: 2026-06-28T09:51:44.119\+00:00
- - Summary: Static analysis correctly identified network access, environment-variable guidance, and external command examples, but the weak cryptography and Ruby backtick alerts are false positives from Markdown prose. The skill has legitimate blockchain automation intent, but it can lead users to install a CLI, run bots, use API keys, and broadcast transactions, so publication should include a clear operational risk warning.

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