Khatru
Framework for building custom Nostr relays; its repository is archived while its documentation site stays online.
How it started
Launched
· first version tag, v0.0.1, the day after the repository was created; the repository history also carries older commits from February 2022 that predate the khatru name · Source (opens in a new tab)
Why it was built
From the docs' 'Why khatru?' page: for a relay that 'isn't completely dumb' but needs custom acceptance policies, multi-source queries or selective auth, it is 'a simple framework for creating your custom relay without having to reimplement it all from scratch or hack into other relay codebases'. · Source (opens in a new tab)
Milestones
First tagged version, v0.0.1 · Source (opens in a new tab)
Repository put in maintenance mode; development continues as fiatjaf.com/nostr/khatru · Source (opens in a new tab)
Release history
No published releases were found for this repository.
Repository facts collected .
Status evidence
Checked 2026-10-04: GitHub reports this repository as archived, with its most recent public push on 2025-09-22. No published GitHub release was found; repository activity is the only development evidence recorded here. Archived reflects the repository state published by GitHub, not a judgement about the software or any successor project. The project website answered with HTTP 200 at this check. No founder, maintainer or creator is attributed: person-level role evidence was not verified for this record.
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