Get involved

Discord

Get help running a node, share what you’re building, and talk through ideas before writing a SIP.

The project backlog on GitHub.

Repositories

Repository	What’s in it
stellarium-ts	The TypeScript node, operator, and escrow program. Start here to run a node or work on the network.
requestscript-js	The RequestScript language: parser, types, and runtime.
SIPs	Stellarium Improvement Proposals and the whitepaper.
stellarium-web	The Stellarium website.

Ways to help

Research

Study how other networks handle discovery, routing, and payments. Poke holes in the whitepaper and turn your findings into a SIP.

Programming language development

Work on the RequestScript parser, type checker, and runtime. Propose new language features, and write examples and test cases.

Website, blog, and docs

Improve the website, write guides, tutorials, and reference docs, and help launch the blog.

Decentralized architectures

Work on peer discovery, routing, and syncing in the node. Think through trust, signing, and payments between nodes. Run nodes and report what breaks.

Developing stellarium-ts

The node repository is a pnpm monorepo:

Module	Purpose
`packages/stellarium-ts`	The `stellarium-ts` npm package
`apps/operator`	The operator that interacts with Solana and stores receipts
`apps/local-resource-node`	A local node hosting a paid resource
`apps/local-caller-node`	A local node with no resources that syncs from the resource node
`programs/escrow_program`	The native Rust Solana escrow program

pnpm install
pnpm build
pnpm dev

If you change the operator’s database schema, generate migrations before opening a PR:

cd apps/operator
DATABASE_URL='postgresql://stellarium:local-only-password@127.0.0.1:5432/stellarium' pnpm exec drizzle-kit generate