9 developer resources for building on Solana
Framework and CLI for Solana smart contract development
by Anchor
$ anchor
Local CLI + agent skills installer for Codex and Claude Code.
$ avici
CLI to scaffold auth and support agent workflows.
$ clerk
CLI for NFT creation, candy machine management, and digital assets
by Metaplex
$ mplx
CLI that gives AI agents and terminals access to pay-per-use APIs — no signup, no keys, no subscriptions. Works with Claude Code, Gemini, Codex.
CLI for creating and managing SPL tokens on Solana
by Solana Labs
$ spl-token
Solidity-to-Solana compiler written in Rust — write Solana programs in Solidity syntax and compile to Anchor or BPF. Supports mappings (auto-PDA), events, custom errors, modifiers, CPI, and SPL Token ops.
Command-line tools for Solana development and validator management
by Solana Foundation
$ solana
GPU-accelerated Solana vanity address generator. Grinds CreateAccountWithSeed inputs (SHA-256) instead of ed25519 keypairs — ~1.3B searches/sec per RTX 4090. Apache-2.0, by cavemanloverboy.
$ cargo install vanity --features=gpu