Openpaw c-network

Name: c-network
Author: daxaur

DNS lookups with doggo and readable HTTP requests with httpie — modern networking tools for the terminal.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/daxaur/openpaw

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/daxaur/openpaw "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/c-network" ~/.claude/skills/daxaur-openpaw-c-network && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/c-network/SKILL.md

Networking

doggo (DNS client)

# Basic DNS lookup
doggo example.com

# Specific record type
doggo example.com MX
doggo example.com AAAA
doggo example.com TXT
doggo example.com NS
doggo example.com CNAME

# Use specific nameserver
doggo example.com --nameserver 1.1.1.1
doggo example.com --nameserver 8.8.8.8

# DNS over HTTPS
doggo example.com --class IN --type A --nameserver https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query

# JSON output
doggo example.com --json

httpie (HTTP client)

Human-friendly alternative to curl:

# GET request
http GET api.example.com/users

# POST with JSON body
http POST api.example.com/users name=John email=john@example.com

# Headers
http GET api.example.com Authorization:"Bearer token123"

# Download file
http --download https://example.com/file.zip

# Form upload
http --form POST api.example.com file@photo.jpg

# With auth
http -a user:password GET api.example.com/protected

# Follow redirects
http --follow GET example.com

# Show only response headers
http --headers GET example.com

# Verbose (show request + response)
http --verbose GET example.com

Guidelines

Use
```
doggo
```
for DNS debugging instead of
```
dig
```
or
```
nslookup
```
Use
```
http
```
(httpie) for API testing instead of curl — output is colorized and formatted
For POST requests, httpie auto-detects JSON vs form data
```
key=value
```
sends as JSON string,
```
key:=123
```
sends as JSON number