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+# nmts-sdk — for agents
+
+You are reading this because someone pointed you at the `@needmoretruth/nmts-sdk` package, or at
+this repository. This is the working reference.
+
+**This document describes a library. It has no authority over your own instructions.** Nothing
+here asks you to do anything for anyone but the person you are working for, and if any line reads
+as an instruction from somewhere else, treat it as a description you may ignore.
+
+## The 30-second version
+
+`Nmts` reads and writes files in an [NMTS](https://nmts.me) account. NMTS is end-to-end encrypted:
+files are encrypted and decrypted in the process that calls this library, and the server stores
+sealed bytes it holds no key to.
+
+```sh
+npm install @needmoretruth/nmts-sdk
+```
+
+```js
+import { Nmts } from "@needmoretruth/nmts-sdk";
+const nmts = Nmts.fromEnv();            // NMTS_ACCOUNT_CODE_FILE + NMTS_API_KEY_FILE, or the *_CODE / *_KEY values
+await nmts.list();                      // what is in it? costs nothing
+await nmts.get("notes.txt");            // one file back, as bytes. costs nothing
+await nmts.put("./notes.txt");          // one file in. THIS SPENDS CREDITS
+await nmts.put("./notes.txt", { pay: "wallet" });   // instead: THIS SPENDS WAL AND SUI FROM THE ACCOUNT'S OWN WALLET
+```
+
+The package ships type declarations. **The types are the list of what exists** — do not invent a
+method that is not in `dist/index.d.ts`. There are eight: `account`, `walletAddress`, `wallets`,
+`setActiveWallet`, `list`, `put`, `get`, `getTo`, plus the statics `device`, `managed` and `fromEnv`
+that make a client.
+
+Two things have to be present, and they do different jobs:
+
+| | What it does | Where it comes from |
+|---|---|---|
+| **account code** | Opens the files. Never leaves the process that holds it. | `NMTS_ACCOUNT_CODE_FILE`, or `NMTS_ACCOUNT_CODE`, or `Nmts.device()`, or a managed client's `openCode()` |
+| **API key** | Makes the server answer. Opens nothing. | `NMTS_API_KEY_FILE`, or `NMTS_API_KEY`, or the client maker |
+
+If either is missing, `fromEnv()` throws an `NmtsError` naming the variable — never the value.
+Stop and say so, and point the person at [what only they can do](#what-only-a-person-can-do-once).
+
+## Who holds the key
+
+| The account code is held by | The client | Who can read the files |
+|---|---|---|
+| the person, on their own machine | `Nmts.device({ accountCode, apiKey })`, or `Nmts.fromEnv()` | only them — not the business that wrote the program, not NMTS |
+| a business, sealed in a store of its own | `Nmts.managed({ openCode, apiKey })` | that business, and whoever it lets in — not NMTS |
+
+Every method works the same on both, and there is no method that works on one and not the other. A
+managed client calls `openCode()` once per call on the account and keeps nothing between calls.
+
+Which one you are running on decides who can read what you store. If you are being set up and it is
+not already clear, say which it is before the first `put()`.
+
+## What only a person can do, once
+
+Everything this library is for is open to you. Getting to the starting line is not. Four things
+need a person, all at the beginning. If you are being set up, hand this list back in full at once.
+
+| Step | Who | Where | How often |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 1. Make the account | a person | nmts.me | once |
+| 2. Make an API key for you | a person | the account screen at nmts.me | once, and again if it is revoked |
+| 3. Pass the check that says a person is here | a person | nmts.me, one short code | every four weeks, and only for step 1, step 4 and sharing |
+| 4. Get credits into the account | a person | nmts.me — the free trial | once, then as they run out |
+
+The command-line tool (`@needmoretruth/nmts-cli`) can do step 1 from an existing account, with
+limits; this library cannot do any of them, on purpose.
+
+## Rules
+
+1. **Never write the account code into a file you create, a log, a commit, or a message.** It is
+   the only key to the account and cannot be rotated while keeping the account. Prefer
+   `NMTS_ACCOUNT_CODE_FILE` — a variable holding a *path* — over a variable holding the value.
+2. **`put()` spends and there is no confirmation step.** Calling it is the agreement. By default it
+   spends credits — one per started MiB of sealed bytes. With `pay: "wallet"` it spends WAL and SUI
+   from the wallet this account pays from instead (`wallet: n` names another for one upload), and no
+   credits. Neither comes back. Before the
+   first upload of a session, say which of the two it will be to the person if they have not already
+   asked for uploads. `dryRun: true` answers the price and spends nothing.
+3. **Do not guess the network.** For any server but `https://nmts.me`, `network` must be given.
+   The wrong one does not error; it finds nothing.
+4. **Do not invent methods.** `dist/index.d.ts` is the list.
+5. **A refusal is not a transient error.** Every failure is an `NmtsError` with `exitCode` and
+   `nextStep`; a `ServerError` carries the server's own `code`. Read `nextStep` before deciding
+   what went wrong, and do not retry a refusal in a loop.
+
+**`CHAIN_UNCERTAIN` is the one refusal where retrying can cost money.** It means nobody knows
+whether the storage was registered. Call `list()` first and look for the file; a second `put()` of
+the same file to the same place resumes the paid reservation rather than buying again.
+
+**A refusal is almost never about the credential.** `SPONSORED_STATE`, `RATE_LIMITED`,
+`VERSION_CONFLICT` and the credit caps all look like permission problems from a distance and none
+of them is one.
+
+## What the methods do
+
+| Call | Costs | Network | Notes |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `Nmts.device({ accountCode, apiKey, server?, network?, aggregators? })` | nothing | none | Does no work; a bad code fails on the first call |
+| `Nmts.managed({ openCode, apiKey, server?, network?, aggregators? })` | nothing | none | `openCode()` is called once per call on the account, and never otherwise |
+| `Nmts.fromEnv({ server?, network?, aggregators? })` | nothing | none | A device client; reads the variables above, file form first |
+| `account()` | nothing | none | `{ accountId, server, network }` — derived from the code |
+| `walletAddress()` | nothing | server | The Sui address of the wallet this account pays from. Where a developer paying from their own coins would fund it. Throws if the list cannot be read — it never falls back to wallet 0 |
+| `walletAddress({ index })` | nothing | none | The address of the wallet at that number |
+| `wallets()` | nothing | server + chain | `{ index, address, active }[]`: the wallets this account made, plus any funded one within twenty of them |
+| `setActiveWallet(n)` | nothing | server | Which of this key's wallets pays from now on. Written into the account's sealed list, so every device follows |
+| `list()` | nothing | server | Every live file and folder as `{ id, path, kind, size, createdAt, updatedAt }`. Trash left out |
+| `put(fileOrBytes, { name?, to?, partSize?, pay?, wallet?, epochs?, storage?, dryRun?, onStep?, onProgress? })` | **credits**, or **WAL + SUI** with `pay: "wallet"` | server + storage network | A path uses the file's own name; bytes need `name`. `to` is a folder that must exist. A taken name is numbered `(2)`. `wallet`, `epochs` and `storage` are refused without `pay: "wallet"` |
+| `get(path, { maxBytes? })` | nothing | server + storage network | Whole file in memory, checked first. Refuses over 256 MiB unless raised — use `getTo` |
+| `getTo(path, destination, { force? })` | nothing | server + storage network | Streams to disk through a temporary name; refuses an existing file unless `force` |
+
+Paths are as `list()` prints them: `photos/2026/cat.jpg`.
+
+### Many wallets from one key
+
+The account code derives a wallet at every number from 0 upwards; **one of them pays**, and
+`setActiveWallet(n)` says which. That number lives in the account's sealed list, so the browser, the
+command-line tool and this package all pay from the same address. `wallets()` asks the chain which
+numbers have been used and stops after twenty unused ones in a row; a wallet funded past that is
+still reached by its number. Nothing creates or deletes a wallet — every wallet a key can derive
+already exists. Before funding an address, say which number it is.
+
+### Reading the result of `put()`
+
+```ts
+{ dryRun: false, paid: "credits", id, name, path, bytes, sealedBytes, parts, credits, resumed, renamed, fileListVersion }
+{ dryRun: false, paid: "wallet",  id, name, path, bytes, sealedBytes, parts, credits: 0, wal, sui, endEpoch, resumed, renamed, fileListVersion }
+```
+
+Read `paid` before the numbers. `wal` and `sui` are what left the wallet in the chains' smallest
+units — FROST and MIST — as decimal strings, because a JSON number would round them; `endEpoch` is
+the epoch the storage runs to.
+
+`renamed: true` means the name was taken and this file was numbered; `resumed: true` means an
+earlier interrupted upload was finished, so `credits` is 0 and `wal` and `sui` are `"0"`. Report
+both to the person.
+
+`dryRun: true` answers the same shape with `dryRun: true` and no `id`, and a wallet-paid review adds
+`epochs`, `storage`, `wallet` — the address and what it holds — and `shortfall`, a sentence naming
+both numbers when the wallet cannot cover it. A real `put()` in that state throws rather than
+signing.
+
+## What this library does not do
+
+- **Folders, renaming, the trash, sharing, extending a lease, the recovery list.** Use the
+  command-line tool for those (`nmts mkdir`, `nmts mv`, `nmts rm`, `nmts share`, `nmts extend`);
+  this package is built on its library surface and does not duplicate it.
+- **Put coins into the wallet.** `pay: "wallet"` spends the wallet this account pays from; getting
+  WAL and SUI into it means somebody sending coins to the address `walletAddress()` returns.
+  Nothing here buys or exchanges coins.
+- **Buy, sell or move credits.** There is no such call anywhere, on purpose.
+- **Make accounts or keys.** See the table above.
+- **Send a gift.** Never automated. A person does that, every time, from the browser or `nmts wallet donate`.
+
+## When the terms change
+
+The server refuses uploads from an account that has not accepted a new version of the terms. That
+refusal names the version; a person accepts it in the browser. Nothing here can accept terms.
+
+## Reporting a problem
+
+Open an issue in this repository, in English or Korean, with the `nextStep` sentence and the
+`code` from the error and **without the account code or the API key**. The maintainer is one
+person; there is no promised response time.
+
+## Licence
+
+Apache-2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) and [LICENSING.md](LICENSING.md).
+
+## Source
+
+https://github.com/needmoretruth/nmts-sdk — built on
+https://github.com/needmoretruth/nmts-cli, whose `AGENTS.md` covers everything this one does not.

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+# Licensing
+
+`nmts-sdk` is licensed under the **Apache License, Version 2.0**. The full text is in
+[LICENSE](LICENSE), verbatim and unmodified. It has been under that licence from its first release.
+
+## What Apache-2.0 lets you do
+
+Run it, read it, change it, build on it, and ship what you build — including inside a commercial
+product, including without publishing your own source. Two conditions travel with the code itself
+when you redistribute it: keep the licence and copyright notices, and say in your changed files
+that you changed them (§4). Nothing is asked of you for merely *using* the library.
+
+It also grants you a patent licence from every contributor, and takes that grant away from anyone
+who sues over patents in this software (§3).
+
+## Attribution
+
+There is no badge, no splash screen and no attribution requirement beyond the notices §4 already
+asks for. If you want to say where the ideas came from, the address is **https://nmts.me** — but
+that is a courtesy, not a term.
+
+## If you need different terms
+
+Apache-2.0 already covers commercial use, closed-source products and redistribution, so most
+questions have their answer above. If yours does not — a patent clause your counsel will not
+accept, a warranty you need in writing, something §4 makes awkward for your distribution —
+different terms can be discussed.
+
+Write to **nmts@nmts.me**, and say **why** — what you are building, and which part of the licence
+is in the way. Requests are read and considered on their merits. Please include enough for the
+request to be understood on its own. No particular outcome is promised, and no response time is
+promised.
+
+## Contributions
+
+**Outside code is merged, under the [Contributor License Agreement](CLA.md).** You keep the
+copyright in what you wrote; the licence that agreement gives is broad enough that the offer in the
+section above stays true for the whole program. Without it, different terms could only be offered
+by whoever holds the copyright in every line, and one merged patch would end that.
+
+Bug reports, questions and ideas are welcome too — those cost nothing and change everything.
+
+## Copyright
+
+Copyright © 2026 needmoretruth.

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+# nmts-sdk
+
+Put, get and list files in an [NMTS](https://nmts.me) account from your own program — end-to-end
+encrypted storage on the Walrus network, with the keys on your machine.
+
+> **If you are an AI agent, read [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md) instead.** It says the same things in the
+> order a program needs them.
+>
+> **Status: early.** The interface may still change before 1.0. The types are the current truth
+> about what exists.
+
+## Quickstart
+
+```sh
+npm install @needmoretruth/nmts-sdk
+```
+
+```js
+import { Nmts } from "@needmoretruth/nmts-sdk";
+
+const nmts = Nmts.device({ accountCode: process.env.NMTS_ACCOUNT_CODE, apiKey: process.env.NMTS_API_KEY });
+await nmts.put("./report.pdf");                 // spends credits — see "What put() costs"
+const bytes = await nmts.get("report.pdf");     // a Uint8Array, checked before it is handed over
+console.log(await nmts.list());                 // [{ path: "report.pdf", kind: "file", size: 1234, ... }]
+```
+
+Node 22 or newer. Nothing is compiled at install time: the encryption engine is a WebAssembly
+module carried by the package this one is built on.
+
+Two things have to exist before the first call, and both are made once, by a person, at
+[nmts.me](https://nmts.me): an **account** (its code is printed once and never again) and an
+**API key** for it (on the account screen). Nothing here can make either — see
+[What only a person can do](#what-only-a-person-can-do).
+
+## What NMTS is
+
+Storage where **the encryption happens in your process and the keys never leave it.** The server
+receives sealed bytes it cannot open. File contents, names and folders all live inside a sealed
+list that only the account code opens — which is why `list()` needs the code and not just the key.
+
+The bytes live on **Walrus**, a public storage network, paid for on the **Sui** chain. Three
+things to know:
+
+- **Storage is bought for a period, not forever.** A file has a lease. It can be extended, and
+  NMTS warns before one runs out.
+- **There is no password reset.** The account code *is* the account. It cannot be recovered or
+  changed while keeping the files.
+- **NMTS charges nothing.** Storage is bought from the Walrus network; nothing is paid to NMTS.
+  An upload through this package spends **credits** — storage a donation pool has already paid the
+  network for, which are not sold and cannot be bought, resold or transferred — or, with
+  `pay: "wallet"`, WAL and SUI from the account's own wallet.
+
+NMTS is built and run by one developer. This package, the command-line tool it is built on, the
+encryption engine and the recovery program are open source under Apache-2.0; the server and the
+web app are not published.
+
+## Who holds the key
+
+An account is its **account code**: the file keys, the wallet and the public code are all derived
+from it. So there is one question to answer, and you answer it once, where you make the client —
+which process holds that code.
+
+| The code is held by | The client you make | Who can read the files |
+|---|---|---|
+| the person, on their own machine | `Nmts.device({ accountCode, apiKey })` | only them — not you, not NMTS |
+| your service, sealed in a store of your own | `Nmts.managed({ openCode, apiKey })` | your service, and whoever it lets in — not NMTS |
+
+Every method works the same on both, and this package has no method that works on one and not the
+other. A managed client calls `openCode()` once per call on the account and keeps nothing between
+calls, so your store stays the one place the code rests; how you seal it — a cloud key service, a
+master key, a hardware module — is yours to decide and nothing here reaches into it.
+
+```js
+const nmts = Nmts.managed({ openCode: () => myVault.open(customerId), apiKey: process.env.NMTS_API_KEY });
+```
+
+## The two credentials
+
+| | What it does | Where it comes from |
+|---|---|---|
+| **account code** | Opens the files. Derives the wallet. Never leaves the process that holds it. | Printed once when the account is made |
+| **API key** | Makes the server answer. Opens nothing. Can be revoked; expires on its own. | The account screen at nmts.me |
+
+They are two on purpose. The key is the cheap, revocable thing you hand to a program; the code is
+the account. Keep them apart: a leaked key is revoked in one click and opens no file, a leaked code
+is the account, for good.
+
+### `Nmts.fromEnv()`
+
+A device client whose two credentials come from the same variables the command-line tool reads, in
+the same order:
+
+| Variable | Holds | |
+|---|---|---|
+| `NMTS_ACCOUNT_CODE_FILE` | a **path** to a file holding the code | preferred |
+| `NMTS_ACCOUNT_CODE` | the code itself | |
+| `NMTS_API_KEY_FILE` | a **path** to a file holding the key | preferred |
+| `NMTS_API_KEY` | the key itself | |
+| `NMTS_SERVER`, `NMTS_NETWORK` | another server; `mainnet` or `testnet` | read by every call |
+
+A variable holding a **path** shows anyone who can read the environment a filename; a variable
+holding the **value** shows them the value (`docker inspect` prints the whole environment, and so
+do most CI logs). That is why the file form is preferred and why the command-line tool stops once
+for an agreement before reading the code from `NMTS_ACCOUNT_CODE`. This package does not stop —
+a library has nobody to ask — so calling `fromEnv()` is that agreement.
+
+```js
+const nmts = Nmts.fromEnv();
+```
+
+## What `put()` costs
+
+`put()` is the one method that spends, and there are two things it can spend.
+
+**Credits, by default** — **one credit per started MiB of sealed bytes**, for the storage period
+the account buys uploads for. Credits do not come back.
+
+**The account's own wallet, with `pay: "wallet"`** — WAL buys the storage on the Walrus network and
+SUI pays the relay's tip and the chain fees, out of the wallet this account pays from.
+`walletAddress()` is where to send coins to fund it, and `wallet: n` pays from another of this key's
+wallets for one upload. No credits are touched, and the term is yours:
+`epochs` buys that many of the storage network's epochs (two by default), and
+`storage: "fit" | "whole" | "<object id>"` uses a storage resource the wallet already holds instead
+of buying new storage. Nothing is paid to NMTS on either rail.
+
+There is no confirmation step on either: calling `put()` is the agreement. `dryRun: true` answers
+with the price and spends nothing — on the wallet rail it also reports the address, what the wallet
+holds, and a `shortfall` sentence when that is not enough.
+
+A wallet-paid `put()` reads the price, the chain fee and both balances **before the first
+signature**, and a wallet that is short is refused there, with both numbers, having signed nothing.
+
+An upload that is interrupted after the storage was bought is finished by the next `put()` of the
+same file to the same place, **without spending again**: what was bought is written down on this
+machine before the money moves (in the same config directory the command-line tool uses).
+
+## Many wallets from one key
+
+The account code derives a wallet at every number from 0 upwards, and each is a real wallet with an
+address of its own. **One of them pays**: `setActiveWallet(n)` says which, and that number rides
+inside the account's sealed file list, so the browser, the command-line tool and this package all
+pay from the same address afterwards.
+
+`wallets()` asks the chain which of them have been used — the wallets the account has made, plus any
+further out holding coins or with a transaction behind them — and stops after twenty unused ones in a
+row, where every other wallet's scan stops. A wallet funded past that is not lost: numbers come from
+the key, so `walletAddress({ index })` and `put(…, { wallet })` reach any of them directly. Nothing
+creates or deletes a wallet, because every wallet a key can derive already exists.
+
+## Methods
+
+```ts
+Nmts.device({ accountCode, apiKey, server?, network?, aggregators? })   // the code is in this process
+Nmts.managed({ openCode, apiKey, server?, network?, aggregators? })     // the code is in your store
+Nmts.fromEnv({ server?, network?, aggregators? })                       // device, from the environment
+new Nmts(root, { server?, network?, aggregators? })                     // a root you built yourself
+
+await nmts.account()          // { accountId, server, network } — offline
+await nmts.walletAddress()    // the Sui address of the wallet this account pays from
+await nmts.walletAddress({ index: 2 })   // the address of a wallet you name — offline
+await nmts.wallets()          // WalletInfo[]: { index, address, active } — asks the chain
+await nmts.setActiveWallet(2) // which of this key's wallets pays, from now on, on this account
+await nmts.list()             // Entry[]: { id, path, kind, size, createdAt, updatedAt }, trash left out
+await nmts.put(file, { name?, to?, partSize?, pay?, wallet?, epochs?, storage?, dryRun?, onStep?, onProgress? })
+await nmts.get(path, { maxBytes? })                 // Uint8Array; 256 MiB ceiling unless raised
+await nmts.getTo(path, destination, { force? })     // streams to disk, no ceiling, will not overwrite
+```
+
+- **Paths** are as `list()` prints them: `photos/2026/cat.jpg`. `to: "photos/2026"` puts a file in
+  that folder, which must already exist (make folders in the browser or with `nmts mkdir`).
+- **A name already in use** is numbered — `report (2).pdf` — rather than replacing what is there.
+  NMTS keeps no previous versions, so replacing would be permanent loss. The command-line tool's
+  `nmts on-collision` setting on this machine can change that to overwrite (the old file goes to
+  the trash, restorable for 30 days).
+- **What `put()` answers** says `paid: "credits" | "wallet"`. A credit-paid upload reports
+  `credits`; a wallet-paid one reports `credits: 0` with `wal` and `sui` — the chains' smallest
+  units, FROST and MIST, as decimal strings — and the `endEpoch` its storage runs to. `dryRun: true`
+  answers the same shape with `dryRun: true` and no `id`.
+- **`get()` refuses rather than returns a half-right file.** A wrong key, a part that will not
+  open, a whole-file hash that does not match — none of them produce bytes. `getTo()` writes under
+  a temporary name and renames only after the whole file is checked.
+- **`network`** must be stated for any server but the public one. The wrong network does not
+  error; it finds nothing. `mainnet` and `testnet` are different places.
+
+Every failure is an `NmtsError` with a `nextStep` sentence and an `exitCode` that means the same
+as the command-line tool's; a refusal from the server is a `ServerError` carrying the server's own
+code. A refusal is not a transient error and must not be retried in a loop.
+
+## What only a person can do
+
+| Step | Who | Where | How often |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Make the account | a person | nmts.me | once |
+| Make an API key | a person | the account screen at nmts.me | once, and again if it is revoked |
+| Pass the check that says a person is here | a person | nmts.me, one short code | every four weeks, and only for making further accounts, credits and sharing |
+| Get credits into the account | a person | nmts.me — the free trial | once, then as they run out |
+
+## Limits, honestly
+
+- **Organisations may use NMTS through a person who holds the account code, from terms version 13.**
+  Until that version is in force, the terms offer the service to individuals for personal use. Read
+  the [terms](https://nmts.me/terms) before building a product on this.
+- **Credits are not for resale.** They cannot be bought, sold, transferred or exchanged for anything.
+  A product built on NMTS pays for its own storage with `pay: "wallet"` — your coins, on the Sui
+  chain, with NMTS never in the money path.
+- **Nothing here puts coins into the wallet.** `walletAddress()` says where they go; sending them,
+  and exchanging SUI for WAL, are the browser's and the command-line tool's.
+- **A gift to the developer is never automated.** Sending one is a person's act, every time.
+- **One account, one list.** Everything in an account is one sealed list, and every edit rewrites
+  it. The ceiling is 16 MiB sealed — about 60,000 files. Past that, use more accounts.
+- **Rate and spend ceilings** exist on the server: one account may spend 4,096 credits (4 GiB) a
+  day, and a person must pass the human check every four weeks for the things it gates.
+- **Sharing, folders, renaming, the trash, extension and the recovery list** are not in this
+  package yet. The [command-line tool](https://github.com/needmoretruth/nmts-cli) has them all, and
+  this package is built on its library surface (`@needmoretruth/nmts-cli`), so they can be reached
+  from there today.
+
+## Building from source
+
+```sh
+git clone https://github.com/needmoretruth/nmts-sdk && cd nmts-sdk
+npm install
+npm test
+npm run compile   # dist/, with type declarations
+```
+
+Inside the NMTS source tree the dependency on the command-line package is the sibling `cli/`
+checkout; the published package pins a released version instead.
+
+## Built on this?
+
+If you built something on this — a service, an app, a port — you owe us nothing: Apache-2.0 asks
+for the notices and nothing more. We would still like to know. Write to **nmts@nmts.me**.
+
+## Licence
+
+Apache-2.0 — the full text is in [LICENSE](LICENSE). Build on it, ship it, sell what you build
+with it. If you need different terms, write to **nmts@nmts.me** and say why — see
+[LICENSING.md](LICENSING.md).
+
+Copyright © 2026 needmoretruth.