- 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.