CLI/API working group meeting summary

Date: 26/02/2025 Topics/Problem statements/questions/requests:

Meeting Summary – February 26, 2025

🔧 Cardano API & CLI Refactoring

• Continued work on cardano-api, with a focus on the script witness API.
• Refactoring of the transaction compatibility command is in progress, with open PRs.
• Haddock documentation is being improved to help onboard new developers.

🛠️ Cardano-Testnet Tool

• The Cardano local testnet launcher is moving closer to an official v1 release.
• Key challenge: cleanly separating user-provided config files from system defaults.
• The community response to the tool has been positive, especially for on-chain testing.

📄 CLI Output Documentation

• Work is underway to improve CLI output documentation.
• A reproducible, automated documentation pipeline is being planned to keep docs in sync with CLI changes.

📡 GRPC Node Bridge

• Planning has started for a new gRPC node bridge.
• Initial drafts and exploratory work may begin soon.
• Recognized as a significant addition to the developer ecosystem.

📊 Governance Query Fixes

• A fix is being developed for governance state querying.
• The team is moving from query proposals to a more complete governance state query for accurate results.

🧮 Plutus Script Execution Cost Function

• Discussions are underway to introduce a new function for calculating execution costs of Plutus scripts.
• The first version will focus on the "guardrail" governance script.
• Long-term goal is to support all Plutus scripts.
• Current tooling lacks necessary input data, complicating implementation.

📅 Meeting Cadence Discussion

• The team is considering switching to monthly meetings instead of bi-weekly.
• A poll will be posted in Discord to collect feedback.