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Welcome to Stylus Manager 🚀

Stylus Manager helps developers and operators manage both activation and caching for Stylus contracts on Arbitrum. It brings wallet actions, lifecycle monitoring, automation, and alerts into one web app.

Previously called Stylus Cache Manager, the project now covers the program lifecycle as well as the cache auction. The underlying contracts keep their names: ArbWasm handles activation, CacheManager handles caching, and CacheManagerAutomation (CMA) coordinates automated operations.

🔹 Two jobs, one workspace

Job What it does What you can do in Stylus Manager
Activation Makes deployed WASM executable for the chain's current Stylus version. Activate manually, inspect remaining lifetime, configure automatic reactivation, and receive expiration alerts.
Caching Reserves space in the WASM cache to reduce repeated-call gas costs. Place bids, inspect cache status and bid history, configure automatic bidding, and receive eviction alerts.

An active contract can run without a cache slot. A cache slot does not replace a valid activation. Start with the activation and caching basics to understand both states.

🚀 Choose your next step

🏗️ Project at a glance

Submodule Purpose
stylus-cm-contracts CMA and escrow contracts, deployment records, tests, and audit report.
stylus-cm-backend REST API, blockchain indexing, activation and bidding workers, and notifications.
stylus-cm-frontend Next.js app for activation, caching, funding, and monitoring.
stylus-cm-nginx Reverse proxy configuration.
nitro-testnode Local Arbitrum node for testing.

Repository names and existing documentation URLs retain stylus-cm for continuity.