• simplicity
  • little boilerplate
  • minimal magic
• power
  • multithreading
  • automatic reloading
  • extensibility

• Multithreaded dispatch and the ability to connect to multiple networks at a time.
• Easy plugin development with automatic reloading and a simple hooking API.

Skybot runs on Python 2.6. Many of the plugins require lxml. It is developed on Ubuntu 9.10 with Python 2.6.4.