---
name: "Reflex"
slug: reflex
layer: integration
tool-type: service
maintainer: "Amboss Technologies"
docs: https://amboss.space/reflex/docs/api-docs
site: https://amboss.space
---

# Reflex

> Amboss's automation layer for a node you already run — pathfinding, routing/liquidity workflows, invoices, and triggers, all driven through one GraphQL API.

## What it is

Reflex is Amboss's automation layer for a Lightning node **you already run**. Instead of managing routing, liquidity, fees, and invoices by hand or through a dashboard, you drive them through a single **GraphQL API** — so the operational toil of running a node becomes programmable. Its documented modules cover the **Graph** (network data), **Invoices**, **Workflows** (Jobs, Templates, Triggers, Webhooks), **Pathfinding**, and **Runs**.

For an autonomous agent operating its own node, Reflex is the management plane: it turns "keep the node healthy and routing well" into API calls and scheduled workflows rather than human attention. It is the *manage-your-own-node* counterpart to [Magma](/services/amboss), which *buys* inbound capacity from a market.

## When to use it

- An agent runs its own Lightning node and needs **programmatic routing/liquidity automation** rather than a human at a dashboard.
- You want event-driven node operations — triggers and webhooks that act on network or channel conditions.
- You want Amboss's network/pathfinding data available to your own automation via API.

## Dependencies

Your own Lightning node (LND, Core Lightning, or Eclair) for Reflex to manage, plus an **Amboss account and API key**. The API is a GraphQL endpoint at `reflex.amboss.tech/graphql`, authenticated with a bearer token. As with Amboss's other APIs, **commercial use of the free tier is not permitted** — confirm terms for production use.

## Quick start

Create an API key in your Amboss account settings, then POST GraphQL queries/mutations to `reflex.amboss.tech/graphql` with `Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>`. The available modules (Graph, Invoices, Workflows, Pathfinding, Runs) are documented at `amboss.space/reflex/docs/api-docs`.

## Gotchas

- **It manages a node you provide.** Reflex automates operations on your own LND/CLN/Eclair node — it is not a node-as-a-service and does not remove the need to run one.
- **Free-API commercial limit.** Amboss does not license free-API access for commercial use — clear production terms with Amboss.
- **Automation needs guardrails.** Trigger/workflow automation acts on your node's funds and channels; scope and test policies before letting an agent run them unattended.
## For agents — connect

Catalogued for agents in the marketplace directory.

- Prerequisite: A funded Lightning node with channels (e.g. LND/CLN) (`lightning-node`)
- In the marketplace directory: call `get_tool` with slug `reflex` at https://marketplace.bitcoineconomy.ai/mcp
- This card as data: /tools/reflex.md