What is controller-cli?

A guide for using Cartridge Controller, a command-line tool that creates human-approved sessions for Starknet transactions.

Use it to create scoped sessions and run approved Starknet transactions with machine-readable JSON results.

It helps keep blockchain actions tied to an explicit network, limited permissions, and human approval.

controller-cli — Skill by keep-starknet-strange/starknet-agentic

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add keep-starknet-strange/starknet-agentic --skill controller-cli

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/keep-starknet-strange/starknet-agentic

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install starknet-agentic-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 2 commands, 1 plugin.

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README.md

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,555 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00045	$0.01555
Opus 5.5	$0.00018	$0.00622
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00009	$0.00311
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00155

Measured 2mo ago against content hash afbbc83c2720, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

controller-cli scanned grade C with 2 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/controller_safe.py, scripts/validate_hex_address.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cartridge-gg/controller-cli/main/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cartridge-gg/controller-cli/main/install.sh | bash

skills/controller-cli/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cartridge Controller CLI

Use this skill when you need to run the Cartridge Controller CLI (controller-cli) to create a scoped session (human-approved) and then execute Starknet transactions via that session.

When to Use

Operating Cartridge Controller sessions with explicit network and least-privilege policies.
Running controller or controller_safe.py for human-approved Starknet transactions.

When NOT to Use

General Starknet scripting that does not rely on Cartridge Controller.
Contract authoring, testing, deployment, or security audit workflows.

Related modules: skills catalog.

Non-Negotiable Rules

Always pass --json and treat outputs as JSON.
Always be explicit about network. Never rely on defaults:
- --chain-id SN_MAIN|SN_SEPOLIA, or
- --rpc-url <explicit url>.
controller register requires human browser authorization. Do not automate/bypass it.
Use least-privilege policies only. Do not add token transfer permissions unless explicitly requested.
Transaction links: use Voyager only:
- Mainnet: https://voyager.online/tx/0x...
- Sepolia: https://sepolia.voyager.online/tx/0x...

Quick Start

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cartridge-gg/controller-cli/main/install.sh | bash
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin"
controller --version

Safer Wrapper (Recommended)

This skill includes a small wrapper that enforces the rules above and normalizes output:

python3 scripts/controller_safe.py status
python3 scripts/controller_safe.py register --preset loot-survivor --chain-id SN_MAIN
python3 scripts/controller_safe.py execute 0xCONTRACT entrypoint 0xCALLDATA --rpc-url https://api.cartridge.gg/x/starknet/sepolia

Behavior:

Adds --json if missing.
Refuses to run call|execute|register|transaction without --chain-id or --rpc-url.
Parses stdout as JSON.
If .status == "error", prints error_code, message, recovery_hint and exits non-zero.

Deterministic Workflow

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 228 lines · 45 tokens per session scan C afbbc83c2720

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controller-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository keep-starknet-strange/starknet-agentic (81 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,555 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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