aztec-accounts
Manage Aztec accounts including Schnorr account creation, deployment, and recovery from credentials. Use when creating accounts, deploying wallets, or recovering existing accounts.
When & Why to Use This Skill
The Aztec Accounts skill streamlines the management of privacy-preserving accounts on the Aztec network. It provides developers with automated workflows for creating, deploying, and recovering Schnorr-based wallets, handling complex cryptographic key generation and deterministic address derivation to accelerate the development of zero-knowledge decentralized applications.
Use Cases
- Automated Wallet Provisioning: Programmatically generate new Schnorr accounts with randomized secret keys and salts for rapid prototyping and user onboarding.
- Account Deployment & Initialization: Execute the deployment of account contracts on the Aztec network, including the configuration of sponsored fee payment methods.
- Secure Credential Recovery: Restore access to existing Aztec accounts by importing saved secret keys, signing keys, and salts from secure environment variables.
- Cryptographic Key Management: Manage sensitive account components like Grumpkin scalars and Fr fields for secure local storage and deterministic address derivation.
| name | aztec-accounts |
|---|---|
| description | Manage Aztec accounts including Schnorr account creation, deployment, and recovery from credentials. Use when creating accounts, deploying wallets, or recovering existing accounts. |
| allowed-tools | Read, Grep, Glob, Edit, Write, Bash |
Aztec Accounts Skill
Create, deploy, and manage Aztec accounts with proper key management.
Subskills
- Schnorr Accounts - Creating and deploying Schnorr accounts
- Account Recovery - Recovering accounts from saved credentials
Quick Start: Create and Deploy Account
import { Fr, GrumpkinScalar } from "@aztec/aztec.js/fields";
import { AztecAddress } from "@aztec/stdlib/aztec-address";
import { AccountManager } from "@aztec/aztec.js/wallet";
import { SponsoredFeePaymentMethod } from "@aztec/aztec.js/fee/testing";
// Generate new account keys
const secretKey = Fr.random();
const signingKey = GrumpkinScalar.random();
const salt = Fr.random();
// Create account manager
const account = await wallet.createSchnorrAccount(secretKey, salt, signingKey);
console.log(`Account address: ${account.address}`);
// Deploy account (required before use)
await (await account.getDeployMethod()).send({
from: AztecAddress.ZERO,
fee: { paymentMethod: sponsoredPaymentMethod }
}).wait({ timeout: 120000 });
Account Types
Aztec supports several account types:
| Type | Description | Use Case |
|---|---|---|
| Schnorr | ECDSA-compatible | Most common, recommended |
| ECDSA | Ethereum-style | Ethereum compatibility |
Key Components
- Secret Key (Fr) - Private key for encryption
- Signing Key (GrumpkinScalar) - Private key for transaction signing
- Salt (Fr) - Randomness for address derivation
- Address - Derived deterministically from above
Important: Save Credentials
After creating an account, always save the credentials:
console.log(`SECRET=${secretKey.toString()}`);
console.log(`SIGNING_KEY=${signingKey.toString()}`);
console.log(`SALT=${salt.toString()}`);
Store these in your .env file for later recovery.
Key Imports
// Key types
import { Fr, GrumpkinScalar } from "@aztec/aztec.js/fields";
// Account management
import { AccountManager } from "@aztec/aztec.js/wallet";
import { AztecAddress } from "@aztec/stdlib/aztec-address";
// Wallet
import { TestWallet } from "@aztec/test-wallet/server";
// Fee payment
import { SponsoredFeePaymentMethod } from "@aztec/aztec.js/fee/testing";