NIP-5D spec status

The napplet packages implement NIP-5D — Nostr Web Applets. This site does not host a copy of the specification — NIP-5D is a living document, and the canonical text is the only source of truth.

Source of truth

When the packages, this site, or any summary drift from these, the living documents win:

• NIP-5D (the napplet ⇄ shell protocol): github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2303
• NAPs track (every NAP capability domain — relay, storage, identity, …): github.com/napplet/naps

The NIP-5D explained page on this site is a non-normative orientation only; for every normative requirement, read the canonical NIP-5D and the relevant NAP.

Expect drift

ALPHA — expect drift

napplet is alpha. The specification is experimental and a moving target. There will most certainly be drift between the packages and the specification. Things will most certainly change. Always treat the living documents above as the source of truth, and pin to a specific package version when building.

Related specs

The NAP domains build on adjacent Nostr specs:

• NIP-5A — source-tag semantics referenced by current NIP-5D.
• NIP-65 — relay-list metadata, used by the outbox domain.
• NIP-94 / NIP-96 + Blossom — used by the upload domain.
• NIP-19 — bech32 entity encoding, used by the resource domain's nostr: scheme.

See the NAP domain reference for how these map onto domains.