bitcoin-hardware-hwi

bitcoin-hardware-hwi is a skill for Claude Code from claude-dev-suite/claude-dev-suite. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,712 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python library and command-line tool that gives different hardware wallets one common interface. Hardware wallets are separate devices that keep private keys away from the computer signing a transaction.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to detect devices, read public keys and addresses, and sign Bitcoin transactions or PSBTs with wallets such as Trezor, Ledger, Coldcard, BitBox02, and Jade.
Why use it?
Without it, each wallet brand needs its own integration. HWI lets wallet software work with several supported devices through the same style of commands.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to detect devices, read public keys and addresses, and sign Bitcoin transactions or PSBTs with wallets such as Trezor, Ledger, Coldcard, BitBox02, and Jade.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/claude-dev-suite/claude-dev-suite/hwi
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add claude-dev-suite/claude-dev-suite --skill hwi
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/claude-dev-suite/claude-dev-suite

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,712 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00072 $0.01712
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00685
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00171

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7147f34e4391, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bitcoin-hardware-hwi scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/bitcoin/hardware/hwi/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HWI (Hardware Wallet Interface)

Python library + CLI for vendor-agnostic HW wallet operations. Maintained by Bitcoin Core team (bitcoin-core/HWI).

Project status — winding down (as of September 2026)

In issue #850 "Future of this repo" (opened 18 August 2026; covered by Optech on 28 August 2026) Ava Chow (achow101) set out the end-of-life plan: finish MuSig2, cut what will likely be the final release, then hold in minimal maintenance mode until a drop-in replacement is ready, at which point the repo is archived.

Stated reasons: HWI has been essentially a solo project for years, and Python's limitations prevent deterministic builds, so it can never ship inside Bitcoin Core — the goal it was originally written for.

Effective immediately from that announcement:

  • No new features or feature requests, except those needed for MuSig2.
  • No PRs for new devices. The supported-device list below is frozen.
  • Latest release is still 3.2.0 (10 February 2026); MuSig2 work is in flight (PR #794, open as of September 2026).

The announcement names BHWI — Wizardsardine's Rust reimplementation, still self-described as WIP as of September 2026 — as the promising successor. Treat BHWI as the forward-looking integration target; HWI remains the right choice for anything shipping today.

Why HWI

Each HW vendor has its own protocol (Trezor's, Ledger's BOLOS, Coldcard's CKCC, BitBox02's, Jade's). HWI unifies them under one API:

  • enumerate — list connected devices.
  • getmasterxpub / getxpub.
  • displayaddress.
  • signtx / signpsbt.
  • signmessage.
  • setupdevice, wipe, etc.

Supported vendors

As of HWI 3.2.0 (February 2026). Frozen — no new devices are being accepted (see Project status).

  • Trezor Model One, Model T, Safe 3, Safe 5 (Safe 5 added in 3.1.0, September 2024).
  • Ledger Nano S Plus, Nano X, Stax, Flex.
  • Coldcard Mk4, Mk5, Q.
  • BitBox02 (Multi + Bitcoin-Only), BitBox02 Nova (added in 3.2.0).
  • Blockstream Jade, Jade Plus (added in 3.2.0).
  • (Some legacy: KeepKey.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago Changed · +67 lines 7147f34e4391
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 106 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 141032f34280

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bitcoin-hardware-hwi is a skill published in the GitHub repository claude-dev-suite/claude-dev-suite (46 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,712 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.